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Originally Posted by DanHoward
You need to do more than hit the spine to cause paralysis. You need to damage the spinal cord which is protected by pretty thick bone and three layers of tissue. With an impaling weapon you'd need to penetrate the vertebral column (DR 2 like the skull?) and hit something that varies in thickness from 1/2 to 1/4 of an inch.
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The foramen itself doesn't have to be breached. Just displacing the vertebra is enough to cause spinal injury resulting in paralysis (perm or temp) or death.