D&D 4E 4e Paralysis

[Sadrik]

Paralysis causing people to freeze in place like a statue is so 3e.

What if they were running and somebody cast hold person? Would they would shatter into a million pieces when they fell over. What happens when the ogre mage picks up the statue-like body that he cast hold person on? What about the ghoul... does it have a difficult time chewing on the completely rigid body that it just paralyzed? How about doing paralysis right?

 

[frankthedm]

I prefer running Paralysis as a full body muscle cramp, so the victim is standing there and writhing in agony.

 

[Xethreau]

I prefer running Paralysis as a full body muscle cramp, so the victim is standing there and writhing in agony.

I prefer the exact opposite: Full body limpness. Fall the the floor, cannot move, and if you are picked up you move like a rag doll.

 

[Evilhalfling]

I like analysis paralysis - where you have to much information to make a decision. My favorite example of this is pouring over yr 2000 census data to cross reference meaningful demographics figures. and you just sit there staring at the screen, unable to twitch anything but your mouse. No wait thats my day job

The option to cast 1 spell from any complete splat book, as long as it is not in the spell compendium, at the cost of 1 point in con damage per spell level? Now that should induce paralysis.

 

[Gloombunny]

I tend to think of it as being like the more rigid varieties of catatonia. The paralyzed muscles hold the person fixed in one position, but outside forces can change that position if they're strong enough. A ghoul eating a paralyzed person would have no more difficulty than if they were eating a non-paralyzed person who was clenching all their muscles really tight for some reason.

 

[Voss]

Limp or rigid, it isn't statue like. No one is going to shatter, they're just helpless. Personally, I prefer different flavors of paralysis for different things. Hold Person is immobility, but various poison type attacks produce the limp, lack of muscle control effect.

 

[pawsplay]

The 4e way:

lugubrious -> slowed -> paralyzed

 

[Li Shenron]

To make it more cinematic, 4e paralysis will be Matrix-influenced: everytime you cast it on someone, he is frozen in whatever position and you have to spin the battlemat 360 degrees around him.

 

[CleverNickName]

I prefer the exact opposite: Full body limpness. Fall the the floor, cannot move, and if you are picked up you move like a rag doll.

This.

 

[Intrope]

To make it more cinematic, 4e paralysis will be Matrix-influenced: everytime you cast it on someone, he is frozen in whatever position and you have to spin the battlemat 360 degrees around him.

ZOMG! Magic Missile Time!