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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mkill" data-source="post: 5833677" data-attributes="member: 55985">Healing Surges and WoundsI agree with the other posters that removing Healing Surges is one thing, but Healing Surge Value is another. Just leave healing surge value in the game, and keep Second Wind as it is. That way, class features, feats etc. that key off Healing Surge Value still work.Your "wounds" system is a good idea, but needs more work. It's weird that one wound doesn't have any effect, but the second one drops you immediately. What?I'm not sure how I'd do it, but I would introduce a -2 penalty to attacks for being bloodied. Taking a "wound" gives the same -2 penalty. If you take a wound when you are bloodied or already have a wound, make a saving throw or fall unconscious.You should limit the kind of events that can cause a wound. Otherwise, PCs will try to deal wounds directly to take down monsters quickly, rather than slowly bringing down their hit points.Caster-based healing effectivenessMeh. The math is skewed. Healing gets (relatively) weaker and weaker as you approach level 10, then suddenly doubles in effectiveness, gets weaker and weaker, and then gets another 50% boost at level 21. Weird.Even worse, while Clerics add their Charisma and twice their Wisdom, Int-based Warlords get screwed over royally because they now need Charisma and Wisdom (or better both) to heal properly. If I was a player in your campaign, I'd politely ask you to stop messing with the rules and concentrate on DMing.Short RestMeh. If I was in that campaign, I woulda) stock up on healing potionsb) take several short rests after anotherc) use the heal skill or whatever else is available to get back to fulld) avoid getting into consecutive fightsPre-4E, at higher levels the party cleric would just drop enough healing spells / pling everyone with a Wand of Cure Light Wounds to get the party back to full between fights. 4E simply made that automatic.DyingAs for your dying rules: Really, how is this different from Death Saves? All you do is add the Constitution modifier to Death Saves, and remove the "Death Save" name. While I do think that adding the Con modifier to Death Saves is good, I'd still call them Death Saves so that feats etc. still work.Critical Hits* Your crit effects only really make sense for melee weapon attacks. However, any attack can crit in 4E, and that includes things like arrows, thrown daggers, fireballs, eyebite... Do your crit effects really match these?* Avengers really love these crit rules.* Expect a lot of Wizards to drop a massive area attack and then go into Defensive Stance with the first 20 they roll.* You should also try to tie your changes together. The "Wounding Strike" effect of crits in your rules should cause a "wound".* Push should be 2 squares, not 10'* Stun: Whatever the "Strength save" is, it sounds like a house rule. 4E lingo would be something like "Stunned (save ends), secondary effect: dazed (save ends)"* Massive damage: 4E chars already roll bonus dice for their magic weapons. Also, not sure how "massive" +2d6 still is at Paragon and Epic level. Probably not much.</blockquote>

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