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Originally Posted by Bruno
You can't just make a solid plate out of transparent whatever, unless you're going to add a life support system. There is definitely not enough air circulation with a helmet-like bucket on your head to sustain athletic activity.
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I think people mostly want solid plate over the forehead, temple, eyes, and nose. Having a perforated visor that protects the mouth, cheeks, and jaw is fine: you can breath and talk through it, and getting shot in the face is not nearly as bad as getting shot in the unprotected eyeslits.
By default, the situation is your DR8 visor can be penetrated at the eyeslit chinks by a bodkin arrow doing 5 damage, which almost blinds you in one eye and does 4 injury to your brain. If the arrow did 6 damage, it almost certainly blinds you and does 8 injury and likely makes you roll to resist knockdown at -10. The same arrow to your mouth through a DR8 perforated visor is a knockdown roll at no penalty and only 1-2 points of injury. That's a huge difference.