Forehead Cuts

[aesir23]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

Since the vast majority of punches are crushing damage, they won't be targeting the eye directly anyway.

Now that I think about it, that makes no sense. As of now, I'm house ruling that the eye can be targeted with crushing attacks.

Crushing attacks to the eye: 2 points to cripple the eye (with temporary crippling representing an eye swollen shut.) Any damage beyond that is applied to Face (rather than the brain as in impaling attacks).

Originally Posted by Varyon

For punches, you're talking a pretty low-probability event, so by the time one is likely to happen, the target is almost certainly unconscious - if not dead - from all those Skull hits.

They're low probability with gloves on (not to mention the Vaseline fighters rub on their faces to reduce friction.) Cuts are A LOT more common with bare-knuckles (as can be seen from the early days of UFC) but knockouts are much, much rarer.*

I like the idea that 1 in 6 of crushing attacks to the skull cause bleeding that could leak into the eyes.



*You can't punch someone's head hard enough to give them a concussion without seriously hurting your hand. The majority of bare-knuckle boxing knockouts (from the London Prize-fight days) were from body blows (solar plexus).