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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1674418" data-attributes="member: 1210">Here's the homebrewed system I use (I've been considering adding more 'levels' to the severity and maybe expanding the chart- we'll see).When a character suffers a critical hit, roll severity based on the proportion of damage done vs. the victim's current hit points.  (The reason for using current rather than total hp is that otherwise high hit point creatures could never suffer a grievous wound.)  Thus, if a 6th-level fighter with 60 hp suffered a crit for 20 hp, it would be merely a major wound.  If she then suffered a second crit for 45 hp (reducing her to -5) it would be an incapacitating wound.Severity[/i]Major Wound (less than half current hp): Roll1d12.Grievous Wound (over ½ hp, still above 0): Roll 2d12Incapacitating Wound (0 or less, still alive): Roll 4d8Lethal Wound (dead): Roll 3d6+22. 1 Knocked Back 5’2 Knocked Prone3 Staggered 1 round4 Dazed 1 round5 Disarmed6 Lose Shield (or off-hand weapon)7 Break Finger, Toe or Nose; -1 to checks with hand/foot8 Break Ribs (1d6); take 1d6 nonlethal damage whenever you run/charge9 Lose 1d6 Teeth10 Break Fingers (1d5) or Toes (1d5) or Lose an Ear11 Break Hand, Foot, or Face; -2 to anything using injured part12 Break Jaw; -2 to Bluff or Diplomacy, 20% verbal spell failure13 Break Lower Arm, Lower Leg or Collarbone; -4 to anything using injured part, aggravating it deals 1d6 nonlethal damage14 Damage to Armor, Shield or Weapon as well as target15 Muscle Damage; take 1d4 Str damage16 Internal Damage; take 1d4 Con damage17 Break Upper Arm, Thigh or Sternum; -4 to anything using the injured part, aggravating it deals 1d6 lethal damage18 Hamstrung, -10’ speed19 Lose an Eye20 Lose Fingers (1d5) or Toes (1d5) or Nose21 Lose Hand or Foot 22 Deafened23 Stunned 1d4 Rounds24 Lose Lower Arm or Lower Leg25 Lower Jaw Ripped Free; -8 to Diplomacy checks, 75% spell failure26 Gutted; take 1d6 Str and Dex damage, 50% chance to tangle feet each square of movement, which inflicts 1d6 hp of damage to the victim27 Vocal Cords Destroyed; no speech or verbal spellcasting28 Brain Damage, 1d4 points each of Int, Wis and Cha drain29 Knocked Unconscious 5d20 Minutes30 Shattered Knee or Elbow; completely unusable, requires a regenerate to fix31 Both Eyes Put Out, Blinded32 Spine Shattered, Paralyzed (roll 1d6: 1– total; 2- neck down; 3- waist down; 4- left side; 5- right side; 6- arms only)33 Throat Slit34 Groin Destroyed35 Heart Destroyed36 Brain Destroyed37 Decapitated38 Unseemed from Nave to Crotch39 Head Pulped40 Cut in HalfThe beautiful thing about my system is that it reflects the damage done by a crit rather than determining it (so you'll only get your skull crushed if the crit already kills you).Though I have been considering a magic weapon property that increases the severity of a crit... <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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