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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltern" data-source="post: 1491128" data-attributes="member: 5870">After several years as a Monte-written adventure junkie, I am striking out on my own to make my own campaign setting.  This setting will have an Indiana Jones/Mummy kind of feel, geographically and cinematically speaking.  People will generally not wear a lot of armor, flintlock pistols abound, and DON'T GET HIT BY A BULLET, they sting, you know. So my thought was to implement defense bonuses, armor as damage reduction, and the Fortitude saves instead of HP rules from Unearthed Arcana.  Here's where I hit my big snag: Injury.I like the idea of this system, but manner in which it was built takes the balance of D&D, puts it on it's head, spins it around, and throws it out the window.  Does anyone else think the system needs further refinement/more extensive changes to work well with the D&D system? My two major complaints are:Different sized hit dice.  One thing that the barbarian has over the ranger is that he will have 2 HP/level (on average) more than the ranger.  Now there is no difference.  The sorc is supposed to be a bit tougher than the wizard. No difference now.  I think some sort of bonus to Fort saves against injury my be appropriate:d4: -2/2 levelsd6:-1/2 levelsd8:+0d10:+1/2 levelsd12: +2/2 levels(These numbers are largely arbitrary, as I have not doen some spreadsheeting to see if the numbers still work out. I realize that generally classes with d4s and d6s ALREADY have a poor Fort save, and now they're being penalized more. This is also a problem)Constitution is now worthless.  I realize that sounds counterintuitive.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Whereas before Bracers of Health would get you +1 HP/level, it now gives you +1 to Fort save, independent of level. Woopdy friggin do! A magic item simulating the feat Great Fortitude is far better than the bracers.  Trolls, ogre mages, and other regenerating monsters now have lost a big part of what makes them nasty.  I imagine some system with losing "hit" status could be made for these folks, but none is given.Anyone already talked about this, suggested a better system, etc.?  (BTW, if this belongs in House rules, please send it on its merry way.)</blockquote>

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