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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Essenti" data-source="post: 5845185" data-attributes="member: 100205">What I have been working on lately is adding bloodied/wounded system to my game. I have two sub scores below hit points: bloodied and wounded, both begin at 1/2 your hit points at level 1, but your armor's defense bonus is added to your wounded score. The wounded score improves by 1 point two levels. (so it is effectively 1/2 starting hit points + armor + 1/2 level)Basically, a character gains an actual wound any time they receive damage that meets or exceeds their wounded score. Any damage received that qualifies as a wound cannot be healed except through magical healing or bed rest. A wounded character is weakened, save ends.I use bloodied for allowing different classes to unlock certain abilities, but the wound system was put in place so I could easily determine when damage actually hurts a character outright. Taking damage equal to the wounded score is a light wound, which is noted as a single wound mark. Taking twice the damage is a serious wound worth two marks, thrice the damage a critical wound worth three marks. Each mark reduces a characters max hit points by 4 points per wound until the wound is healed. A cure light wounds spell can only remove a single wound per casting, cure serious wound removes two wounds, cure critical three wounds. The cure series spell also heals the lost hit points.A heal check can reduce the number of wounds by one (bone is set, gash is stitched back up, burns are covered, etc), but it cannot reduce the wound marks to zero, nor does it recover any hit points, only rest or magical healing can do that. I also have a second wind in the game, characters can use that once per fight to recover some hit points that did not qualify as a wound. And I have some classes with features that allow them to inspire their allies who can  take a second wind that round even if they've already used theirs. But this type of abstract hit point recovery doesn't affect wounds.Right now it's a bit too gritty at low levels, so I've got a bit of work to do on it as it's still riding the edge of a death spiral. I might add a constitution check to see if the damage becomes a wound or not... dunno.Quick summary:Hit points are abstract unless the damage exceeds the characters wounded score at which point they take a wound, they are weakened (save ends). A wound reduces a character's max hit points by 4 per wound. Wounds can only be healed through magical healing or bed rest. <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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