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<blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8157703" data-attributes="member: 6685541">Thanks for the feedback everyone! I really appreciate you taking the time to read my ideas and write your thoughts.Thinking about this idea further, I realize that I am essentially replacing Death Saving Throws with a countdown timer that gets closer to 0 and only resets once the adventure is over.I still like the idea! I like the playstyle of characters getting to charge in and make mistakes at the start of an adventure, bit feel low on resources by the end.I think this does make characters more difficult to kill, but it also makes me as a DM more comfortable targeting 0 HP characters in combat. It's just not fun (for me) when I have enemies target unconscious characters.I agree that Vitality Points do not yet produce the effect I want... I think I will cut out the bonus from gaining a level, to simplify it. I want regaining VP to still be slow (I love it when lots of time progresses between adventures), but maybe 1/week is too slow. It also means that it takes longer for a big beefy barbarian to be back to &quot;full health&quot; than a wimpy 10 Con bard.Some ideas for regaining VP could be...<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Con mod per week</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Regain 1/2 VP per week</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Regain VP = Proficiency Bonus or Level per week...</li>
</ul>Let's see... If my goal is 1 - 4 weeks of downtime between adventures, and most characters have, say, 12 VP, then I would want them to recover 4 per week. Maybe that's it, just a flat 4?As for VP for enemies, yeah I agree with just removing that. I threw it in there as a last-minute idea, and it doesn't really work.Feel free to add more thoughts, I really enjoy what has been posted so far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BookTenTiger, post: 8157703, member: 6685541"] Thanks for the feedback everyone! I really appreciate you taking the time to read my ideas and write your thoughts. Thinking about this idea further, I realize that I am essentially replacing Death Saving Throws with a countdown timer that gets closer to 0 and only resets once the adventure is over. I still like the idea! I like the playstyle of characters getting to charge in and make mistakes at the start of an adventure, bit feel low on resources by the end. I think this does make characters more difficult to kill, but it also makes me as a DM more comfortable targeting 0 HP characters in combat. It's just not fun (for me) when I have enemies target unconscious characters. I agree that Vitality Points do not yet produce the effect I want... I think I will cut out the bonus from gaining a level, to simplify it. I want regaining VP to still be slow (I love it when lots of time progresses between adventures), but maybe 1/week is too slow. It also means that it takes longer for a big beefy barbarian to be back to "full health" than a wimpy 10 Con bard. Some ideas for regaining VP could be... [LIST] [*]Con mod per week [*]Regain 1/2 VP per week [*]Regain VP = Proficiency Bonus or Level per week... [/LIST] Let's see... If my goal is 1 - 4 weeks of downtime between adventures, and most characters have, say, 12 VP, then I would want them to recover 4 per week. Maybe that's it, just a flat 4? As for VP for enemies, yeah I agree with just removing that. I threw it in there as a last-minute idea, and it doesn't really work. Feel free to add more thoughts, I really enjoy what has been posted so far. [/QUOTE]

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