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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 3168086" data-attributes="member: 5171">I'd like to see at some point. My gut feeling is that it would make players more cautious against mooks, but it wouldn't be as big a change to normal gameplay as one might fear, mainly since characters in D&D tend to get better saves than characters in d20 Modern. Yeah, 30 points of damage from a fireball might take down that fighter with 76 hit points, but he's probably got a Fort Save of +12 or so (10th level fighter: Base Fort save +7 +3 Con +2 from either Great Fortitude or save-boosting items). Combine that with easier access to magical healing, and it's definitely a change, but not a huge one. (I think. I could be so, so, so very wrong.)If I did implement this change in D&D, I'd do it in a campaign that also had action points, so that PCs of mid-to-high level could still take on big bad 10d6-damage-dropping clerics without feeling like every round was a killer.Yep. Heck, the Conan game drops the threshold to 20 and, if I'm remembering right, gives every attacker beyond the first a cumulative +1 to hit you. I don't remember if it's melee-only, or if archers would get those bonuses as well, but it does make PCs more cautious about getting swarmed. (And it makes them feel better when they take down three mooks in one round, too.)</blockquote>