after reading the Erevis Cale books, i found it decidedly irritating that - despite characters in the stories getting this-or-that severed every-other chapter, and the books supposedly being based on the DnD 3x rules - there was a disconnect between what happens in those novels and there being...
personally, i would love to use dismemberments in my game. i would only allow dismemberments in the following situations:
1. if a monster has a bite attack and is at least one size category than its target, it can choose to sever a limb on a critical hit.
2. if a monster has a swallow...