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Originally Posted by Anthony
I'm pretty sure you don't need a specific skill to strike the vitals on animals. It might be a specific skill to know the exact location of the heart, but the vitals seems to include a lot more than that.
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For simplicity sake lets say that the Vital organs are smaller than the torso given that there's a penalty to strike it. A region of the body somewhere between the size of your hand and your arm. Even scaled up to dragon size there's a fairly wide range of where in the body that could be located. We could logically presume the vital organs are in the upper torso, but that's really guesswork on a cretaure we don't have reliable data on.
The rule at my table would be, are dragons commonplace? would everyone in a remote village know somebody who's cut open a dragon to preserve it's hide and make dragon stew? If not then knowing where in a Dragon's body you'd have to aim is chancy at best. Someone in your village has cut open a bear/rabbit/deer most likely they could tell you exactly where to sink an arrow to hit the heart. In a desert village, those wouldn't be automatic assumptions.