[Stormcrow]

For me, the question isn't whether you can buy off hit location penalties with techniques; it's whether you can train to buy off hit location penalties with techniques.

Techniques are about training to buy off penalties. You can train at setting traps; you can train to pick locks by touch. But is it realistic to train yourself to stab people in the eyes better than or as well as you can stab them in the torso?

I don't feel like this is a realistic thing you can actively train in. I don't think there are special... erm... techniques for hitting the eyes that really apply. You need precision to hit the eyes, and that's an overall matter. There's no trick involved, nothing you do differently for the eyes than you do for any other spot. At least, not that I know of.

I would allow this sort of technique in a highly cinematic or comedic game but not a realistic one.

No doubt someone is going to arrive and claim that they've studied in the School of Eye-Stabbing...