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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rothe" data-source="post: 2848164" data-attributes="member: 39813">Well as this thread has moved on from the OP <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=";)" />.  I don't find the FBI data as compelling, as it depends on how you view the "death spiral."  In addition: the FBI data focuses more on someone still fighting, it doesn''t give detail on reduced effectiveness except in the grosses sense, that is a -1 to hit is not going to come out of the data.  <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=";)" />As a previous post mentioned one can derive basically three states from the data:FreshMaimedDeadD&D goes with Fresh or Dead, some "death spirals" go with many steps between fresh and dead.  I guess I'd advocate a "death step" after a certain % of HP loss (50%) or suffer a performance penalty to reflect maimed.  Maybe one could have a feat or save to avoid the penalty.  Not that I feel HP needs improvement or that HP don't already do this, that is, it also depends on how you view 0 HP, maybe the death spiral is already there.</blockquote>