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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pedantic" data-source="post: 9395089" data-attributes="member: 6690965">That's just a more granular version of LR as it currently exists, right? LR is basically how a 3 hit point tracker, especially if we assume most spell conditions are roughly equivalent to death.It's more flexible, but I think the issue there is that doesn't solve the mixed party problem. Either you're going after HP or LR, and martial/magical attacks deplete separate, unrelated pools. The problem, really, is that spell conditions are supposed to be incrementally effective, making the group more effective with each successful cast, and the combination of short combats and powerful conditions makes that very hard to land, especially for 9 increasing levels of power.The best solutions seem to be making the condition track inherent to the monster, so that each LR is scaled to solve self-inflicted penalty. That gets a little awkward, because you might also need to adjust spells so that it's a reasonable choice to compare the personal LR penalty and the spell and sometimes pick the latter. That, and it's a much more content heavy design solution, because you have to build a special penalty track for each monster.</blockquote>