What happened to the Neck hit location?
The rules are the same as for Third Edition, except that there is no automatic or resisted decapitation anymore. It can only happen as a special effect of an ordinary killing blow to the neck. The reason why is that decapitating freestanding foes with a hand weapon is simply not realistic. It’s fantasy-novel and action-movie “realism,” sure, but nothing to do with real-world fights. There’s a reason executioners used great, huge, heavy swords on stationary targets with their necks on blocks . . .
