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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 6973108" data-attributes="member: 6778044">1) They didn't leverage the Exhaustion Track enough.2) They didn't leverage the Death Saves enough.The exhaustion track is a great incremental list of bad stuff that lives outside of the hit point structure and can provide long-term consequences. I renamed it the Condition Track.The Death Saves mechanic puts a variable amount of time with a chance of success or failure as a gate to very bad stuff. I renamed it Deadly Condition saving throw.Some examples:Fatigue (uses Condition Track, can recover one level after a short rest)Exhaustion (uses Condition Track, recover as written)Injuries (uses Condition Track, recover using Deadly Condition saves, one try per day)Falling Damage (uses Condition Track, can cause injuries)Ability Damage (uses Deadly Condition saves, one try per day, 3 failures is permanent loss of that point of ability damage).Disease (uses Condition Track, daily Deadly Condition saves).I've also modified healing magic to make them more deadly.Lesser restoration must be cast before the Deadly Condition saving throw. If that save is a failure, then it is negated. It's not counted as a success or failure. This has the effect of extending the deadly condition, but doesn't worsen it nor make it better.Greater restoration grants advantage on the Deadly Condition save.Healing Feat or using a healing kit without the feat allows the creature to add Constitution bonus to their Deadly Condition saves. Healing feat with a healing kit acts like lesser restoration.This all serves to make the game grittier, allow bad things from critical hits, etc., but without being an outright save or die, all while using existing 5e mechanics.</blockquote>

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