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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 5940062" data-attributes="member: 1656">I could support an Injury system which stole from FATE - the idea that the player can elect to soak X points of hit point damage by the character incurring an injury of some sort.Hypothetical example:A character can at any given time have one Light, one Moderate, and one Serious injury, which carry with them certain mechanical consequences and certain healing requirements.A Light Injury can be incurred instead of [Character Level + CON Mod] in hit points, a Moderate twice that, and a Serious three times that.Tim the Fighter is 3rd level and has a CON Mod of +2.  His Max HP is 30, but he's currently on 9 hit points.  An orc attacks him with a greataxe, and hits for 15 damage."That'll put me well negative," Tim's player says, "so I'll take a Moderate Injury of Lacerated Thigh to soak 10 points of damage - that leaves me on 4 hit points."  Until he can get the injury healed, he'll be at -2 on attack rolls and all Dex checks.In the next round, the orc hits him again, for 11 damage.  "Even soaking with a Light Injury will still leave me unconscious, and I can't take a second Moderate Injury," Tim's player realises.  "I can only stay conscious if I take a Serious Inury - that will soak all 11 with some left over!  But we don't have a cleric who can cast Cure Serious Wounds, and I don't want to be carrying a -3 penalty to all my attack rolls for a month while the injury heals naturally!  I guess I'll take the 11, and Tim's unconscious."After the combat, once Tim's been stabilised, the cleric can use Cure Moderate Wounds to fix the Lacerated Thigh... otherwise he'll need a week or two to get rid of it, and he'll continue to take the Moderate Wound penalties until it's gone.(While the numbers work for this example, it'd need tinkering to be workable across a range of levels.  Character level probably needs to be a multiplier in whatever formula it ends up being, rather than just being added on, for example.)-Hyp.</blockquote>

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