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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Noumenon" data-source="post: 5043660" data-attributes="member: 70102">It's in his sig, that made it seem current (compared to reaching a thread with Google, then you expect that it's old).  I knew I'd get an answer if I posted.  Besides, my question uncovered some very relevant information for someone deciding whether to use this rule or not:Now I know what effect implementing the system will have.  I could tell I liked the mechanic better than death saves, but now I know whether it will make death more or less likely.  By replacing a system that is easy on low-level characters but doesn't help high-level, it should make low-level characters die more and high-level characters die less.  With a secondary effect of making everyone die less because they will be more careful about hitting negative HP.Since I don't want life to get more deadly for low-level characters, maybe I could phase this system in by using it just when it's needed most -- when you going below -10 in one hit.  Then I could make the Fort save equal to negative HP, like some people wanted, because it would still be less deadly than the outright death from the RAW.Conceptually, I am convinced that the old system is as weird as eamon says it is, I just don't want to replace it with a system that has major effects on whether my players die or not.</blockquote>