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When staking the female gender version of a vampire have a penalty since they have a different external Biology? On super natural to stake a female vamp one of the hunters needed to aim bellow the rib for better accuracy.

Would the rib bone be tougher than a wooden stake? If so then Would the stake would need to piearce through the individual rib bones?

There is no difference between staking male and female vampires. If there was, the books would have said so.

The only difference would be with non-human possessed bodies that the Vamp. Intel. splinter essence inhabits. It's heart might be in a different place.

Last time I checked, breasts don't award a defensive bonus against sharp, mallet driven objects.

Grell wrote:Last time I checked, breasts don't award a defensive bonus against sharp, mallet driven objects.

Depends if they are wearing a chainmail bikini. Then use plate mail AR.

Touché! The chainmail bikini is CLEARLY the superior defensive solution for any combat situation.

LOL! I was thinking mostly of melee weapons..but point taken since most vamps don't were armor..but after reading this some GM will have Chain mail bikini clad vampires.

The rib bones may be a hindrance, but you can strike from the softer stomach area and aim up or a slender piece of wood through rib spaces if needed..so no worries on that.

You win.

Looks like we got another save to write into the list of saving throws.

skeletally, the main difference between men and women is found mostly in the hips. the rest of the skeleton is slightly different in morphology, but pretty much the same. the rib cage of women is not noticeably stronger or weaker than that of men.

and breasts are mostly fatty tissue, they wouldn't really make it harder to stake a vamp.

@Prysus.....that was pretty funny

Now i've got to use this in my next game

This is a random, interesting article I found while trying to find a quick reference on how to locate the heart.

"Between the fourth and fifth rib on their left side, err closer to the sternum" doesn't really help when feeling around to count the ribs or just plain guessing wrong are equally likely to get your face torn off. Having an easy to locate aim point would be useful. The train of thought was that, while the underlying structure may be the same, a female vampires would have a larger variation in (and mobility of) certain surface features which would make the use of certain reference points more error prone. Having thought about it more it probably isn't as big of an issue.

But that is kind of an interesting article.