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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 7934474" data-attributes="member: 63">See, I want to go for a system that merges 'fighting spirit' and 'physical wounds.' My belief is that if you make it harder to randomly die, you will not need to make resurrection into a core part of the game. It will make death more meaningful. Also, I want to be able to chop limbs off.Also, I mean, I work at a medical library. The human body doesn't go from 'up and fighting' to 'dead' in 6 seconds, not even a minute. Short of decapitation or brain destruction, your heart might stop, you might lose consciousness, but in a setting with magical healing, people ought to lie seemingly dead for a few minutes and still be available to resuscitate.My rough idea is:You get 3 points of Resolve per day.HP is your ability to stay on your feet and keep defending yourself, so that a 'hit' will just hurt instead of actually delivering a meaningful wound. When you spend an hour to rest, you can spend a point of Resolve to regain all your HP.If you suffer a critical hit, instead of taking extra damage, you suffer a serious wound which lasts for a day. If the critical hit reduces you to 0 HP, instead it's a critical wound which is permanent. If you spend a point of resolve, you reduce it to a light wound, which only lasts until you're able to rest.For a crit, you roll 1d8:1 - Head. Target is stunned for one round, and thereafter has a level of Exhaustion that lasts as long as the wound does.2 - Eyes. Target is blinded for one round, and thereafter has disadvantage on Perception.3 - Mouth. Target is mute for one round, and thereafter can only speak at a low rasp.4 - Gear. A piece of armor or weapon is dented (if a light wound), broken (if serious), or destroyed (if critical).5 - Left Arm. Target drops what it's holding, and thereafter cannot use that limb.6 - Right Arm. Ditto.7 - Left Leg. Target falls prone, and thereafter its speed is reduced by 10 feet.8 - Right Leg. Ditto.A level 1 cure spell restores a light wound. Level 3 restores serious. Level 4 restores critical.When you're at 0 HP, you are stunned but conscious (so if you regain hit points, you have awareness of the situation). You still make death saves as usual, but if you fail a third, you're not dead. You're just imperiled, and need to receive healing within 5 minutes.</blockquote>

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