^ I’ve been noticing that sort of thing recently, as well. For example: use flail lash against a bandit with only a bandana on his head (20 protection), and it hits him on the head, and the bandana is destroyed, and … the head receives the tiniest scratch, as if the flail did its minimum possible damage, but it was hitting the head and that’s supposed to do extra damage. But then hit him on the head again (now all “armour” is gone) and now it does much more damage (what you expected the first time). So it looks like the damage the first time was magically curtailed by that tiny strip of cloth …
