Damage: When hit in the leg, your damaged leg must be drug i.e. cannot leave the ground. A second hit to the same leg will kill you.
What are your thoughts on this? I had an opportunity to try it out at Gencon and I was wondering how the people who participated at Octoberfest felt about it.
Personally, I like the rule for 3 reasons:
1) No more going down on a knee. I've seen so many young fighters with bad knees due to the cumulative damage that fighting on knees can do, especially on hard surfaces.
2) Battles tend to go faster because fighters can move more quickly towards each other and the damaged leg doesn't protect you from shots. Also, you wouldn't see battles where the person down on a leg is actually at an advantage due to a large shield.
3) Realism (although this is not nearly as critical as #1). Realistically, if a person were hit hard enough to hack or cut a leg, the person would be out of the fight completely.
My main concern is that it may encourage fighters to ignore leg shots especially if someone hits a leg twice quickly.
Your opinions?
P.S. (edited after Kegg's post) I can't count! That's what I get for getting a blinding flash of the obvious and not checking everything over.