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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paid a bod yn dwp" data-source="post: 8208731" data-attributes="member: 6872763">The critical effects from the system shock table are mostly short term hindrances, with one result being fall to zero-hit points and death saves. There are no lasting wounds there, which is why I thought it appropriate. With my first suggestion was using the limited resource of Inspiration to trigger a roll on the table after rolling a critical. It would be a much more player focused tool, as mooks wouldn’t have access to inspiration.If you did use the random max damage option as well, then I think there’s real mileage in using the developers house rule of allowing a shield or weapon to be broken to mitigate the effect.If inspiration is to be used more creatively, you could also allow that to be spent to mitigate a critical effect. Though you may need to change the inspiration rules to allow a small pool for each session. A maximum of 3 for example.like I’ve said there’s plenty of safety mechanisms in 5e to prevent instant death already. it’s not a system that engenders a great feeling of risk against the odds, particularly after 6th level. The odds are already stacked up in favour of the pc’s.  Don’t think there’s a danger of it turning into wfrp <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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