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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5019334" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, it's sound mechanically, in as much as in theory you can make a trade between two resources balanced, but I personally find the mechanic has poor flavor.&nbsp; Essentially what it is suggests is that you do less damage... to do more tangible damage to the target.&nbsp; That I find absolutely baffling and incoherent from a flavor standpoint.&nbsp; Surely the more tangible the damage you do to the target... the more damage you actually do.As far as scaling goes, it makes the problems even worse.&nbsp; Frankly, striking to do -10 CON is an absolutely insanely powerful effect worth several times what you sacrifice (35 points worth of damage).&nbsp; And when you scale the non-damaging conditions, it just makes the incongruent flavor that much more well....incongruent.&nbsp; &quot;Let me get this straight, I've just had my eyes gouged, had my hamstring cut, deafened, my throat is cut, I've been ganked in the guts, and stabbed in the nuts.... and none of this actually reduced my hit points more than your average scratch?&nbsp; Well, it's a good thing he didn't decide to stab me deeply in someplace that would actually hurt, like whatever sack I'm storing my hit points in.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5019334, member: 4937"] Well, it's sound mechanically, in as much as in theory you can make a trade between two resources balanced, but I personally find the mechanic has poor flavor. Essentially what it is suggests is that you do less damage... to do more tangible damage to the target. That I find absolutely baffling and incoherent from a flavor standpoint. Surely the more tangible the damage you do to the target... the more damage you actually do. As far as scaling goes, it makes the problems even worse. Frankly, striking to do -10 CON is an absolutely insanely powerful effect worth several times what you sacrifice (35 points worth of damage). And when you scale the non-damaging conditions, it just makes the incongruent flavor that much more well....incongruent. "Let me get this straight, I've just had my eyes gouged, had my hamstring cut, deafened, my throat is cut, I've been ganked in the guts, and stabbed in the nuts.... and none of this actually reduced my hit points more than your average scratch? Well, it's a good thing he didn't decide to stab me deeply in someplace that would actually hurt, like whatever sack I'm storing my hit points in." [/QUOTE]

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