Targeting specific locations, difficulty and fairness issues

[Diomedes]

Originally Posted by Beowulfenator

BTW, how do limbs get hacked off? Let's say a 10HP character gets a 8HP cutting wound in the leg. Is that leg cut off or just crippled?

To sever a limb you need to inflict double the damage necessary to cripple it (Note that injury beyond that needed to cripple is lost). So your 10HP character would have a crippled leg, and would have lost 6 HP. A blow of at least 12 points of damage would be necessary to cut the leg off, but the victim would still only lost 6 HP.