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Originally Posted by tbone
I myself would steer away from that: if the vitals hit occurs automatically on a good roll, why bother specifically aiming for the vitals?
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For what it's worth, I've run two campaigns with the "hit by 3 hits vitals" rules in play, and it works fine. By and large when you aim at a target you aim for the center of the torso, which is basically the vitals. A bit high and you hit the heart, a bit low and you hit the liver, both of which can be pretty fatal. The entire line from skull to mid-belly down the midline has a chance of hitting the spine if it penetrates deeply.
For non-humans it might not hold; for humans it works fast in play and well enough for verisimilitude with how I was taught to shoot that it doesn't break anything.