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13th Age, which shares a lot of similarities with 4e, has an optional Lasting Wound rule that works similarly to what you are describing:

I watched Terminator for the first time just a couple years ago. I really enjoyed it. And the truth is, except for the ending it's not an especially FX-reliant film. Yeah, the stop-motion terminator in the factory looked cheesy, but that bit was brief. I would rather see a Lucas-style CGI...

I just ran "Cairn of the Winter King" for my group, which is an oft-overlooked Nentir Vale adventure that comes with the Monster Vault. Very good. They enjoyed it thoroughly. Don't forget to grab Threats to Nentir Vale if you don't already own it. Lots of monsters and named villains with great...

I have never played OD&D (heck, I wasn't alive for much of it) but the topic interests me and I've read quite a bit about it. It seems to me that characterizing a 'correct' way which most groups played in is basically impossible. The rules were a jumbled mess with important pieces left out. Even...

I do voices. I can't help myself. :o Suddenly my players find themselves arguing with a feisty dwarf with a broad Scottish accent.

Oh yeah! No one's saying you shouldn't roll that! :P

I don't have much experience with dice pools, but in 13th Age you can wind up rolling handfuls of damage dice at higher levels. The core rule book's advice is either to take the average unless it's a very special roll, or average most and roll two or three. If you're consistently rolling tons...

Yes, but don't forget, those gamers in the 80's that quit playing because of marriage and kids are now twenty years older. The kids have moved out of the house, the job has settled down, and they have free time again! I imagine there are lots of lapsed players coming back to TRPGs.

There are some people arguing that because game design is an art (and let's grant that point) that it does not advance. But it's not true that art does not advance. Art does advance, just not in the same way technology does. And game design has advanced in a couple of important ways. The first...

Yeah honestly I would not beat yourself up about not working the group's icon rolls when they can't get together for longer than an hour-and-a-half. Maybe you tell them you can incorporate one icon roll per hour (or maybe per combat) and if you only get to one, tough luck.

The 'natural' values of the d20 matter tremendously throughout 13th Age, not just for certain classes. For example, if you are duel-wielding you get to reroll your attack on a 2. So a duel-wielding half-elf who rolled a 3 could make it a 2 and get to roll a second attack. It's actually a pretty...

Okay, let me clarify: I wasn't saying that Hasbro WAS saying that. I was just giving that as an example of how a profit-driven corporation tends to think.

You're not thinking like a corporation. Hasbro is going, "If you can sell 12,000 people one product, can't you sell 12,000 people TWO?"

Yes. 13th Age​.

I've opined before that WotC should do different 'versions' (as opposed to 'editions') of D&D to appeal to different types of gamers: a tactical version, a storyteller version, a 'simulationist' version, etc. This would allow them to appeal to different demographics without fragmenting their...

At full size I like all three and it's a tough choice. But shrunk down three is the only viable option. It's nice that Pelgrane Press is taking such a personal interest in this!

Agreed. I think the transparency of the game is a Very Good Thing. It's one of the things I really like about 13A. If nothing else, it should head off many of those RAW vs. RAI arguments at the pass.

The entire last page is an OGL declaration.

The nice thing about 4e monsters is that they are very well-defined: a nth-level monster of role x should have such-and-such defenses and so-and-so hp. It shouldn't be too hard to create 4e equivalents. In fact, if you have DDI access you can search the compendium by monster level and role and...

I think the 4e Essentials/13A approach of letting the player pick one of their racial stat mods makes races pretty flexible without doing away with the nice mechanical flavor the mods give races.