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<blockquote data-quote="jaelis" data-source="post: 6989026" data-attributes="member: 60210">Well, thinking about it some more probably what I did there was really only valid when the fall is a pretty short distance. Once the forces get large enough to start breaking things, the damage probably doesn't scale with the stress any more, and your tissue doesn't act much like a spring.Probably it gets complicated in reality, but I would guess that once damage is being done, that the &quot;amount&quot; of damage would scale like the total energy being dissipated in your body, divided by the total volume of your body. If that's right, then the damage would scale directly with the fall distance (until you approach terminal velocity), and it would be independent of your mass (except that terminal velocity depends on mass). That basically conforms to the dnd rules.So my calculation might be reasonable for determining how far you can fall without taking any damage, but maybe once you are taking damage the dnd rule is a good way to handle it. At least it scales in a sensible way.If you wanted to make things more realistic then, maybe you have a &quot;safe fall&quot; distance that depends on creature weight (and composition), and you take 1d6 damage for every 10 ft you fall past that distance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jaelis, post: 6989026, member: 60210"] Well, thinking about it some more probably what I did there was really only valid when the fall is a pretty short distance. Once the forces get large enough to start breaking things, the damage probably doesn't scale with the stress any more, and your tissue doesn't act much like a spring. Probably it gets complicated in reality, but I would guess that once damage is being done, that the "amount" of damage would scale like the total energy being dissipated in your body, divided by the total volume of your body. If that's right, then the damage would scale directly with the fall distance (until you approach terminal velocity), and it would be independent of your mass (except that terminal velocity depends on mass). That basically conforms to the dnd rules. So my calculation might be reasonable for determining how far you can fall without taking any damage, but maybe once you are taking damage the dnd rule is a good way to handle it. At least it scales in a sensible way. If you wanted to make things more realistic then, maybe you have a "safe fall" distance that depends on creature weight (and composition), and you take 1d6 damage for every 10 ft you fall past that distance. [/QUOTE]

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