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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5970401" data-attributes="member: 1210">I've always tied critical effects to, well, critical hits.I have a system of "colorful critical hits" that I'll copy & paste for you. I'm not sure if this suits your taste or not, but my group loves it. Note that this also opens up things like magic weapons that give a bonus to critical severity, armor that reduces it, etc.This is the last version of the system for 3.x; I have a subsequent version for 4e, but this is notated for 3e mechanics.Colorful Critical hits in CydraWhenever a creature suffers a critical hit in Cydra, check the severity on the following table.  This adds both color and deadliness to critical hits and helps scar characters up, leaving them with interesting stories to tell.    Some conditions below are marked with one, two or three asterisks. These designate the level of healing magic required to alleviate the condition, as follows:*A cure light wounds will alleviate this condition.  (Exception: it will not regrow a lost ear.)**A cure moderate wounds will alleviate this condition.***A cure serious wounds will alleviate this condition.When a character in Cydra suffers a critical hit, the severity check is based on how much damage the character took relative to his current hit points. (This is an important part of the colorful critical hit system- otherwise, characters with high hit point totals will never take crits above 1d12 severity.)Major Wound (less than half current hp): Roll1d12.Grievous Wound (over ½ hp, still above 0): Roll 2d12Incapacitating Wound (0 or less, still alive): Roll 4d8Lethal Wound (dead): Roll 3d6+221* --- Break Finger, Toe or Nose; -1 to checks with hand/foot2*** --- Lose 1d6 Teeth, -2 to Diplomacy, spell failure 2%/tooth3* --- Break Ribs (1d6); take 1d6 nonlethal damage whenever you run/charge4* --- Break Fingers (1d5) or Toes (1d5) or Lose an Ear; -2 to checks with hand/foot or to Listen checks.5 --- Lose Shield (or off-hand weapon)6 --- Disarmed7** --- Break Hand, Foot, or Face; -2 to anything using injured part, take 1d4 nonlethal damage when attacking with it8** --- Break Jaw; -2 to Bluff or Diplomacy, 20% verbal spell failure9 --- Knocked Back 5’10 --- Damage to Armor, Shield or Weapon as well as target11 --- Staggered 1 round12*** --- Break Lower Arm, Lower Leg or Collarbone; -4 to anything using injured part, aggravating it deals 1d6 nonlethal damage13 --- Knocked Prone14 --- Dazed 1 round15 --- Muscle Damage; take 1d4 Str damage16*** --- Break Upper Arm, Thigh or Sternum; -4 to anything using the injured part, aggravating it deals 1d6 lethal damage17*** --- Hamstrung, -10’ speed18 --- Lose an Eye19 --- Lose Fingers (1d5) or Toes (1d5) or Nose20 --- Deafened21 --- Lose Hand or Foot 22 --- Internal Damage; take 1d4 Con damage23 --- Stunned 1d4 Rounds 24 --- Lose Lower Arm or Lower Leg25 --- Lower Jaw Ripped Free; -8 to Diplomacy checks, 75% spell failure26 --- Gutted; take 1d6 Str and Dex damage, 50% chance to tangle feet each square of movement, which inflicts 1d6 hp of damage to the victim27 --- Vocal Cords Destroyed; no speech or verbal spellcasting28 --- Brain Damage, 1d4 points each of Int, Wis and Cha drain29*** --- Knocked Unconscious 5d20 Minutes30 --- Shattered Knee or Elbow; completely unusable, requires a regenerate to fix31 --- Both Eyes Put Out, Blinded32 --- Spine Shattered, Paralyzed (roll 1d6: 1– total; 2- neck down; 3- waist down; 4- left side; 5- right side; 6- arms only)33 --- Throat Slit34 --- Groin Destroyed35 --- Heart Destroyed36 --- Brain Destroyed37 --- Decapitated38 --- Unseemed from Nave to Crotch39 --- Head Pulped40 --- Cut in Half</blockquote>

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