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<blockquote data-quote="Kyamsil" data-source="post: 1581442" data-attributes="member: 2534">It was already a rule on AD&amp;D 2nd edition (Don't know if on 1st edition it applied as I didn't play more than a couple games back then). And it has been always the same: more than 50 points of damage of a single attack/spell/fall/whatever, save or die.My method isn't so hard to calculate, also you don't have to do it on the fly. I simply calculated it and made each player write his threshold on his character sheet near the HP box. Also, as I have a really big playing group (12 players, yes, you have read it well... sometimes it is really slow) I have like a DM assistant that helps me with some issues like the initiative order, keeping record of the hp values of each player and so on. She also has the threshold written down. The assistant keeping record of hp is because some players have old bad habits and instead of counting down from their hp total they accumulate damage (the way non-lethal damage is counted) or do some other silly things that slow down play as writing down only the amounts of damage of each blow, adding it together from time to time and things like that...Anyways, the half-total HP is a bit too much to me. Once a barbarian player gets to 150 hp (not that hard if he has a good enough CON score and fairly good rolls, specially during a rage) the mass-damage almost never shows up. Also, I have been toying with the idea of Toughness not only giving you 3 extra hit points, but also adding those 3 points to mass-damage threshold. That way that sort of feat will be more attractive to players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kyamsil, post: 1581442, member: 2534"] It was already a rule on AD&D 2nd edition (Don't know if on 1st edition it applied as I didn't play more than a couple games back then). And it has been always the same: more than 50 points of damage of a single attack/spell/fall/whatever, save or die. My method isn't so hard to calculate, also you don't have to do it on the fly. I simply calculated it and made each player write his threshold on his character sheet near the HP box. Also, as I have a really big playing group (12 players, yes, you have read it well... sometimes it is really slow) I have like a DM assistant that helps me with some issues like the initiative order, keeping record of the hp values of each player and so on. She also has the threshold written down. The assistant keeping record of hp is because some players have old bad habits and instead of counting down from their hp total they accumulate damage (the way non-lethal damage is counted) or do some other silly things that slow down play as writing down only the amounts of damage of each blow, adding it together from time to time and things like that... Anyways, the half-total HP is a bit too much to me. Once a barbarian player gets to 150 hp (not that hard if he has a good enough CON score and fairly good rolls, specially during a rage) the mass-damage almost never shows up. Also, I have been toying with the idea of Toughness not only giving you 3 extra hit points, but also adding those 3 points to mass-damage threshold. That way that sort of feat will be more attractive to players. [/QUOTE]

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