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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Apok" data-source="post: 570773" data-attributes="member: 1969">Actually, I never said it wasn't a problem past the first couple of levels.  I said it would be much less of a problem at higher levels (mid to high teens).  Yeah, a 1 is always a failure.  So, each time you suffer an ammount of damage greater than your Con you have a 5% chance of getting dropped to -1 HP's.  Fortunately, your brave compatriots actually care about your survival so they will attempt to stabilize you (a non-issue at those levels) and drag you off the battlefield.  In Spycraft, a higher level agent is more likely to get critted with a high-powered weapon being wielded by a skilled user.  We're talking 20 or more points of damage easily, which can knock your character out of the combat or kill him instantly if your Wound points are low enough.  Two crits are an almost guaranteed death sentence.  I'm not saying that d20 Modern combat isn't lethal, just that it becomes less so at higher levels unless your characters are squaring off against a veritable army of heavily armed mooks.  I am saying that, IMO, Spycraft is just as lethal and can maintain that level of lethality without resorting to ridiculous numbers of NPC's with machine guns at high levels of play.</blockquote>