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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
Decapitation with a knife cut? Seems wildly unlikely. Decapitation is hard. And if you really want to use HP damage modeling here for structural impact you should be ignoring the hit location damage modifiers and regarding the neck as Unliving.
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It's possible, but not really if you're doing the classic "stand behind the hostage, cut across their throat" thing. You'd need to be bending their head back to open up the joints in the spine and putting a good deal of force in, like when slaughtering a sheep (where the intent is to cut the big vessels so it bleeds out well, and also the tendons by the spine so you can break the neck, preventing further struggle). Such an action can behead a sheep, and their neck is of comparable thickness to a humans (though longer).