Ripping Out Someone's Heart

[Langy]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Well, my idea of the perk is that you'd be going against face (nose) armor rather than skull armor, though you'd still get the DR 2 of the skull. That doesn't matter much in the normal use of this technique (which is against an unarmored target), but it's worth something against anyone with an open helm that lacks a noseguard.

I'd be fine with a perk to allow you to switch the DR of a target location to a different one for both this trick and the one described by malloyd about targeting the foot to damage the heart. It seems like the kind of thing that'd be kinda cool. I see no reason to make the foot-striker also deal with the chest armor in order to damage the heart with his reflexology trick - the charge for the perk and the other prerequisites (TBAM and Pressure Secrets) are enough.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Langy

I'd be fine with a perk to allow you to switch the DR of a target location to a different one for both this trick and the one described by malloyd about targeting the foot to damage the heart. It seems like the kind of thing that'd be kinda cool. I see no reason to make the foot-striker also deal with the chest armor in order to damage the heart with his reflexology trick - the charge for the perk and the other prerequisites (TBAM and Pressure Secrets) are enough.

I'd suggest modeling things like that as a Technique, not a perk-granted special power.

Obviously, a cinematic technique.

[Langy]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

I'd suggest modeling things like that as a Technique, not a perk-granted special power.

Obviously, a cinematic technique.

A cinematic technique of a cinematic skill is a little silly (this obviously being a technique off of Pressure Secrets). Still, I'd be fine with this; I'd make the Pressure Secrets technique penalty be the hit location penalty of the 'final target' hit location. The process would thus be something like:

Roll attack at -2 plus hit location penalty of primary location (face, foot, whatever).

Roll Pressure Secrets at hit location penalty of final target location (head, heart, etc).

If you succeed, you deal crushing damage with an x2 wound modifier (or x3 if the target location is the vitals/heart or x4 if the brain), but with the DR of the primary location.

[Mathulhu]

What about a really good Pickpocket roll?

Poor poor Briarheart,
Things look bad for you,
Hey watchya gonna do?