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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadrik" data-source="post: 5967194" data-attributes="member: 14506">I think this will be easy. It will not take that amount of time, 3e did not take that long and 5e is much simpler mathematically. I think your opinion is a valid one but I think the rules for this are much simpler than you speculate. This is a pretty necessary addition in my mind. Why have such a simple and elegant system and not include this? For me the little amount of realism gained, I do not require a whole lot, is very appropriate to defining what a '0' stat is defined as. So rather than having a ton of conditions added to the game that you have to look up why not have this simply a part of the game. Everyone knows what I lost 6 points of CON means. Everyone does not know what the condition for poisoned is, and which poisoned condition? Which brings me to every poison and disease is a separate condition and it is binary on or off? This does not sound like a very good scenario to me. Further, in my mind stat damage makes it simpler for everyone at the table. A myriad of conditions and their required book look ups is not what I am looking for in my game.Here is where we agree, I think it would actually be easier to bake it in the system and then remove the concept of stat damage and add in the slew of conditions as an option. So if a creature says deals 1d6 con damage then you would just apply one of the conditions such as sicked with a failed save or something. Going the other way around I think you would have to rewrite sections. At least with the conditions module you just ignore those written sections and say stat damage = a condition or a condition track and then you go and look up said condition in the module.I think resisting poison should be a CON save. And it still is in the 5e playtest as far as I remember it when I ran it. If you are talking about a -1d6 DEX damage affecting a low DEX person more after they have failed their save. Then I agree that does take some explaining. The dextrous person vs the extremely clumsy, sure the super dex guy is less effected by the poison after failing a a CON save. A guy with 18 DEX and a guy with 12 DEX both take 6 DEX damage 2/3 vs. 1/2 effectiveness. It is a benefit of being dexterous. I'll reconsider I have no problem with this.</blockquote>

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