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<blockquote data-quote="Bladesong" data-source="post: 3653286" data-attributes="member: 20800"><p>All of these ideas seem good and I would like to use something like this, but why does there have to be so much math connected to all new ideas? I have adults in my group that have touble "doing the math" quickly. So how about this: who really cares if they are at -1 or -100; dying is dying right? Just off the top of my head, starting the round after they get hit, a DC 5 Fort Save to stay alive, DC 10 the next, then DC 15 and finally DC 20 then stabilize; or how about a flat DC 15 for 4 - 10 rounds. You could also make an equivalent Concentration check each round to "stay alert" enough for free actions/talking only (for those "death-bed" speeches someone mentioned).</p><p></p><p>Or maybe the other way, a DC 10 Fort save every round for 10 rounds to "stay alert" and if you succeed by 10 or 15 you stabilize on your own and if you fail by 5 or more you die immediately but if you have not stabiliized in 10 rounds or a number equal to your CON, you die. Anyway the "half of this then add this negative number every round and then subtract this and then add this up again" gets a bit cumbersome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bladesong, post: 3653286, member: 20800"] All of these ideas seem good and I would like to use something like this, but why does there have to be so much math connected to all new ideas? I have adults in my group that have touble "doing the math" quickly. So how about this: who really cares if they are at -1 or -100; dying is dying right? Just off the top of my head, starting the round after they get hit, a DC 5 Fort Save to stay alive, DC 10 the next, then DC 15 and finally DC 20 then stabilize; or how about a flat DC 15 for 4 - 10 rounds. You could also make an equivalent Concentration check each round to "stay alert" enough for free actions/talking only (for those "death-bed" speeches someone mentioned). Or maybe the other way, a DC 10 Fort save every round for 10 rounds to "stay alert" and if you succeed by 10 or 15 you stabilize on your own and if you fail by 5 or more you die immediately but if you have not stabiliized in 10 rounds or a number equal to your CON, you die. Anyway the "half of this then add this negative number every round and then subtract this and then add this up again" gets a bit cumbersome. [/QUOTE]
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