The Eyes Have It: Armor Chinks

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by DanHoward

I might rule that the eye slits can't be targeted at all but I'd halve the DR for the whole face because the perforations weaken the metal. Looks like they might enable peripheral vision too.

I was going to make a point regarding eye slits and narrow blades in tourneys, but I thought I'd ask you first because I'm not sure.

In tourney melees would it have been reasonable to not worry about poniards etc being thrust through eye-slits?

I ask because removing that issue would allow you more leeway in patterns of vision/breathing slits in tourney helmets.

But then I'd have thought a really good way to claim victory (and ransom) in a tourney would be to push you poniard through the eye slit have it hovering over you foe's eye!