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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1175727" data-attributes="member: 6530">The first one sounds like the vitality/wound point system.  You have hit points that represent dodging and being battered around a bit.  Those increase by level.  When you run out of those, you take wound points, which are constant, equal to your Con.  When you run out of those, ie 0 or fewer wound points, you're dying, as normal pretty much, down to -10.Critical hits can either apply regular damage, but straight to wound (bypassing hit points), or be more complicated.  Say a weapon is 20/x2, there's normally one bonus die on a critical hit.  Instead, you could apply regular damage to wound, and the bonus die goes to hps.  If it was a x3 crit, regular damage to wound, x2 damage to hps.Hit points recover fast, like level per hour or level*Con bonus per hour.  Wound points recover a lot slower, I'm not certain of the rate.  This is just as I understand the system, anyway, I've never played a game with HP/WP.You can then combine this with your deadly weapons goal, maybe by giving weapons a larger threat range, making severe bodily harm more likely with a weapon.  Fists don't get that, so are still 20/x2- they can't be taken away, but they're not as good as that dagger.</blockquote>