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<blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 2206169" data-attributes="member: 1211">There is a house rule in the DMG that stuns anyone hit by an attack that deals more than half of the HP of the attacked. That might be what you are looking for; another version would be to bring out a critical damage table with effects you can chose from when you hurt a certain percentage of someones HP in one attack.For example:Effects of hitting an arm50% of HP: -2 penalty to actions using that arm.75 % of HP: As above but -4 instead.Really I think rules like this only complicates and often comes up and bites you in the ass when you least expect it. IMO losing half of your HP in one attack is trouble enough as the attacker often can deliver an attack like that again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.---A trouble from a &quot;realistic&quot; POV is that you cant really take many cuts from a sword in reality. Those things are really dangerous and most hits from a sword would kill or incapacitate you, the thing that can be assumed to happen when you're out of HPs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="med stud, post: 2206169, member: 1211"] There is a house rule in the DMG that stuns anyone hit by an attack that deals more than half of the HP of the attacked. That might be what you are looking for; another version would be to bring out a critical damage table with effects you can chose from when you hurt a certain percentage of someones HP in one attack. For example: Effects of hitting an arm 50% of HP: -2 penalty to actions using that arm. 75 % of HP: As above but -4 instead. Really I think rules like this only complicates and often comes up and bites you in the ass when you least expect it. IMO losing half of your HP in one attack is trouble enough as the attacker often can deliver an attack like that again ;). --- A trouble from a "realistic" POV is that you cant really take many cuts from a sword in reality. Those things are really dangerous and most hits from a sword would kill or incapacitate you, the thing that can be assumed to happen when you're out of HPs. [/QUOTE]

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