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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8436216" data-attributes="member: 29398">There's some interesting thoughts here.  Thanks for this.Wounds = constitution IMO perhaps gives too many WP.  Maybe half-con.?  In our system, at roll-up you roll a small die (d4 to d6, depending on species; Humans are a d5) with your Con providing a "floor" (e.g. with average Con a 1 on any die size here becomes a 2; with high Con a 1 or 2 becomes a 3); and that's your Body Point total, pretty much locked in for life.  Fatigue Points are the ones you get by levelling; thus a 1st-level character has a few BP plus the normal amount of FP, and note these extra few hit points haven't reduced low-level lethality in the slightest! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We have death at -10 and the 0 to -9 range are also all BP.A typical commoner has the usual BP as its hit points but often that's it, some lucky ones have 1-2 FP as well. (this is a really nice side effect of the BP-FP system that covers a rather gaping hole in 1e, it explains how commoners can sometimes take a hit from something and not immediately drop dead but also quite realistically implies that such a hit always does full-meat damage)The big deal with BP is that once lost they are much harder to rest back naturally and cure spells are less effective (i.e. use a smaller die) at healing them.One idea I just had for falling: maybe for every 20' you fall 10% of the rolled damage goes to wounds? (which neatly means that at 200' - the height at which fall damage maxes out - all the damage goes straight to wounds; and falling suddenly becomes much more (realistically) dangerous!)I think this overly guts poison, on first reading.</blockquote>

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