Where in the book does it say how to damage armor?

Item qualities lists the effect, and razor edged has its specific rule. Certain techniques allow you to as well... But aside from that I can't see how you go about damaging armor.

Not on the opportunity charts, in the equipment section, or the conflict section.

Am I just glancing over it, or is it just tried to the item qualities and various techniques?

Thank you for the help, and sorry about the dumb question. ?

Critical strikes, even reduced to 0, damages armor.

For weapons, I guess shattering parries. But that is not very common.

Otherwise it is techniques/narrative etc. As far as I remember.

Thank you very much kind sir.

Armor is not supposed to get damaged all that easily. If damaging armor is easy, it's just not good armor.

2 hours ago, nameless ronin said:

Armor is not supposed to get damaged all that easily. If damaging armor is easy, it's just not good armor.

And yet, in 5E, it's fairly easy to damage - arrows can do so.

Note that damaged only reduces armor by 2, so your damaged armor probably still protects for a point or two.

Good armor has Durable.

Some specific discussion on that in the thread below.

Yes it’s easy to damage armor, but the consensus is that it should be relatively easy to maintain / fix said armor after it took a beating.

20 hours ago, Franwax said:

Some specific discussion on that in the thread below.

Yes it’s easy to damage armor, but the consensus is that it should be relatively easy to maintain / fix said armor after it took a beating.

Noting that I've done a little destructive testing in the past... with SCAdian friends... Japanese styles of rigid armor are defeated by katana not by cutting through the plates, but by shaving off the silken cords holding the parts together to leave an opening which can later be exploited. The flexible wicker plates used in some periods have more give, but are able to be cut directly. And the larger single-piece Dō of later periods was less subject to cord cutting, but harder to move in. (My eldest is currently getting used to a plastic Dō as she starts to take up the sword...) The cords are the weakness of the scale and banded armor styles historically used in Japan. (Rivets are better, but not infallible, and require much more precise planning to work right.)

And while silk cord isn't easily cut, a sharp knife can. And what is a Katana but a really long and rather sharp knife?