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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spyritwind" data-source="post: 18281" data-attributes="member: 1912">Not too bad.  I too have worked a little on a hit location chart and was going to make a crit chart inspired by Rolemaster.I'll have to think and look over it better, but you have some idea's here.  I like the healing/injury thing.  I think if some one had a level 4 injury and and was touched with a level two healing spell I'd reduce the wound to level two.  In order for the wound to be reduced any more they'd have to be touched with a level three, or greater healing spell.If I find my chicken scrathes I pretty much had a hit location chart with modifiers to hit.  Various shots could be taken such as low shot, mid shot, high shot, or whatever.  I would only bother to find out where some one was hit if it was a critical hit though.  Non critical hits are pretty much superficial wounds.From Rolemaster it seems to be bludgeoning weapons had a greater tendancy to stun opponents and cause breaks of course, slashing weapons got more bonus damage and piercing weapons caused bleeders.  I hadn't got that far yet though and currently have a more simplistic, but deadlier combat system than the normal rules.  It involves the possibility of instant death and a variation of the clobbered rules.  If you roll within your critical threat range, but do not actualy get in a critical hit your opponent must mave a fort save or suffer the effects as per the Doom spell for one combat round.If you actualy get in a critical hit it's a save, or suffer the effects as per the doom spell and reduced to a half phase action on your next action.If you get a critical threat and your critical hit roll lands within your critical threat range again, called a Death Threat (crit threat range of the weapon for the purposes of Death Threats is only as follows: Improved Crit and Keen only add 1.  Therefore a Keen Rapier in the hands of one with improved crit would have a Death Threat range of 15+), the target must make a fort save, or die.  Modifiers are present for size of weapon vs size of target.  That way Dragons are not likely to die from a dagger strike (unless they roll a save of "1")  Even if the target makes the Death Threat save they suffer the effects as per the Doom spell for one round and lose a half phase.I also include the death from massive damage.This variation does not require any more dice rolls with the exception of the Fortitude Saves.  It means a 10th level fighter getting hit with a critical strike from a kobold throwing a javlin could kill him, but not very likely.  At the very least the fighter could be taken back by the painful strike and slowed up for a moment instead of ignoring the hit altogether like Aragorn and Legolas ignoring arrows in Moria.One more posible addition is that when characters are reduced to half hit points they suffer a -1 to ALL D20 die rolls and when reduced to 1/4 hit points they suffer a -2.I've looked at several wound/vitality system and although one, or two have been tempting I feel the possibility of death and deadliness can be achieved with out having two sets of hit points and the extra challenges that presents.</blockquote>

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