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<blockquote data-quote="CCamfield" data-source="post: 1937890" data-attributes="member: 8123">I'm going to go with what Ridley's Cohort said, more or less... D&amp;D is not the One True Ruleset of realism or even of emulating fantasy.&nbsp; But then again, pretty much any system that has hit points and no penalties for injuries before unconsciousness/death has the same trouble here.&nbsp; (I'm playing in a Silver Age Sentinels campaign at the moment, and it would have the same problem, I think.)I don't really know the details of Mutants &amp; Masterminds combat system, but I think it might be appropriate. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I understand that it involves making Fortitude saves when hit, and if you fail, your character drops to the next state of injury.&nbsp; But if you make the save, the hit has no effect.&nbsp; In such a system Boromir might be on the last level of injury before death, with lots of penalties, but at that point he miraculously keeps making his saves for a long time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CCamfield, post: 1937890, member: 8123"] I'm going to go with what Ridley's Cohort said, more or less... D&D is not the One True Ruleset of realism or even of emulating fantasy. But then again, pretty much any system that has hit points and no penalties for injuries before unconsciousness/death has the same trouble here. (I'm playing in a Silver Age Sentinels campaign at the moment, and it would have the same problem, I think.) I don't really know the details of Mutants & Masterminds combat system, but I think it might be appropriate. :) I understand that it involves making Fortitude saves when hit, and if you fail, your character drops to the next state of injury. But if you make the save, the hit has no effect. In such a system Boromir might be on the last level of injury before death, with lots of penalties, but at that point he miraculously keeps making his saves for a long time. [/QUOTE]

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