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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5706036" data-attributes="member: 996">Mortally wounded means the character dies.  Characters /can/ die in 4e.  I've seen it happen.  Now, you can't know, when a character gets dropped by a big attack, if he's doing to die, but then, no matter how dramatic the slow-motion-death-scene, you can't be 100% sure the character is really truely dead until it's actually established.  So that's not a bad thing, really.   (as an aside, is the problem that there's no normal-combat wound that can be healed by magic, but not by preternatural healing like that of the warlord?  Because that's about the only difference 'knowing' a wound is 'mortal' when it's inflicted, rather than when the character dies of it would make - this guy has a punctured spleen, an encouraging speech isn't gong to save him, bring on the divine band-aids or he dies.  Is that the distinction you're missing?)Being dropped to 0 is incapacitated, so that's also possibe.  So, really, what you're noting is the lack of rules to cover permanently crippling (or the like) a PC?I think that lack is understandable.  A PC can be brought back from death.  It would be a little wierd if there were wounds that couldn't be cured, when death /can/ be cured.  Of course, it'd be easy enough to add such wounds as narrative.  A character who 'dies' could be ruled by the DM to be permanently crippled, instead.  He's not playable until his greivous injuries are somehow repaired (about on par with raise dead).(Yeah, I just suggested re-skinning death.)Ironically, 3.x doesn't have general rules for crippling wounds, either - but it does have a spell to cure them.  :shrug:  AD&D had a few specific rules for attacks that could lop off limbs - and as spell to re-grow them.So, if you're looking for the drama of a 'good guy' being killed or crippled permanently, you're not going to find it in any version of D&D, these things could always be cured, somehow - if only by the expedient of a Wish or some other extreme agency.</blockquote>

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