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<blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 5843393" data-attributes="member: 957">&quot;Realism&quot; is a false issue here.&nbsp; But that aside....There is no precedent for looking at a Medusa and NOT turning to stone.&nbsp; There is vast precedent in heroic literature for characters to avoid would-be fatal knife stabs.The system I advocate gets fantasy knives correct and gets fantasy Medusa correct.&nbsp; I'm happy with the consistency there.If you want surprise knife attacks to be moire deadly, check out the Black Company approach in which HP work as normal but under the right circumstances (surprise/crit/etc..) weapon damage is instead applied directly to CON.&nbsp; Suddenly every fight and every STAB is very serious.I also have long used a falling house rule that every &quot;1&quot; on falling damage dice is 1 CON damage rather than 1 HP damage.But, again, the bottom line is forget the false standard of &quot;realism&quot; and focus on getting the things to work in the game the same as they do in great stories.&nbsp; Make that change and your complaint here goes away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BryonD, post: 5843393, member: 957"] "Realism" is a false issue here. But that aside.... There is no precedent for looking at a Medusa and NOT turning to stone. There is vast precedent in heroic literature for characters to avoid would-be fatal knife stabs. The system I advocate gets fantasy knives correct and gets fantasy Medusa correct. I'm happy with the consistency there. If you want surprise knife attacks to be moire deadly, check out the Black Company approach in which HP work as normal but under the right circumstances (surprise/crit/etc..) weapon damage is instead applied directly to CON. Suddenly every fight and every STAB is very serious. I also have long used a falling house rule that every "1" on falling damage dice is 1 CON damage rather than 1 HP damage. But, again, the bottom line is forget the false standard of "realism" and focus on getting the things to work in the game the same as they do in great stories. Make that change and your complaint here goes away. [/QUOTE]

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