I was going over armor rules again with my young realm and everyone wanted to understand why arrows and javies go straight through armor everywhere but the head. I could not supply a good reason as this seems really, um, stupid, to me as well.
Our armor rules work for me because they are simple and encourage an unarmored game, but I do not understand why this bizarre anomaly in the armor rules exists. If the answer is, "To prevent archers and javelins from being overpowered," then we should make it consistent for the rest of armor as well. Helmets that are inexplicably superior to all other body armor is really strange.
Is there a good reason for this that I am too short-sighted to understand?
I realize this was discussed partly in a recent thread, but I wanted to focus on it so I started a new one.