Breaking
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Removing arms actually gives experience points, and Sam B and Xian actually have skills where they get higher experience points than other characters for breaking or severing arms, respectively.
Source: Subsystem Damage -
It stays planted firmly in his lips through all the back-breaking, decapitating, limb-severing, impaling, and frying that he does to all his enemies.
Source: Smoking Is Cool - Crepsley faked his death by carefully breaking his neck without severing his spinal cord and drugging him so that he seemed dead.
Source: Faux Death
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Severing and Breaking. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/breaking/severing
Breaking & Severing. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/breaking/severing>.
Severing or Breaking. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/breaking/severing.
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