Re: Suspension of Certain Combat Arrows

[Julien de Montfort <julien@spiaggia.org>]

Poster: Julien de Montfort <julien@spiaggia.org>

> How can one lose an eye or suffer a devestating injury to the face if
>they
> are wearing  prper head gear, i.e. a helm with the proper spacing
>between
> the bars allowed by Kingdom rules, which I believe to be a 1" space
>verticle
> or horizontal.  I saw a Balder Blunt, ain't no way, one of these
>could fit
> into a 1" space.

The question here is if it's likely an arrow could bounce *off*
something or somebody and fly back *backwards* through a face grill --
i.e., not the head coming at you, but rather the other end, the nock,
coming at you, which is significantly smaller than a face grill opening.

Julien

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