Two officers from the same pregen, same hit points, same Sword and Dodge, armoured so
that the one carrying MORE points carried it in FEWER places: a breaching suit at 7
points on all seven locations against a cuirass and helmet at 9 points on three.
Against a redcap with an 80% halberd, where fourteen of twenty melee locations are
limbs.
The cuirass and helmet stopped fifteen points across three connecting blows and it did
not matter: the two hits that found a bare leg did every point they rolled, destroyed
the leg (12 against a maximum of 6), and started a six-round dying clock. Under the old
rule that leg carried 9 points and both blows would have done nothing.
The suited officer took the same weapon on a limb for zero and went nine rounds
untouched — then a CRITICAL halberd against a successful dodge landed one step down as
a special, halved the armour, and put 9 through a 7-point suit. Full coverage is
resilience, not immunity.
Full log in docs/REVIEW_LOG.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
