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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kerrick" data-source="post: 3588495" data-attributes="member: 4722">Agreed.Rule 1: Common Sense.That's an interesting idea... if you roll the confirmation and score a crit again, you could do an increased effect. I'm not sure if you'd want to use the weapon's base threat range, or use the modified one - certainly a weapon with keen, or wielded by someone with Imp Crit, would be more likely do deal massive damage... but in a system like this, it might be a bigger advantage to deal more than just crit damage repeatedly. Good ideas there. I was thinking a wound to the hand/arm could reduce attack bonus (minor wound) or deal Str damage (greater wound); a wound to the leg reduces speed (minor) or Dex (greater); a torso hit causes fatigue (lesser) or deals Con damage; and a head hit dazes/stuns or deals Int/Wis damage. So there you have several degrees, if you will, of damage - a minor penalty, ability damage, ability drain, and total destruction/loss (bludgeoning weapons would crush the limb to unusability, but wouldn't remove it). In the case of torso/head hits, the highest degree would result in death. Also, repeated wounds to the same area would (should) stack - say, two or three minor hits to an arm results in ability damage. Cure wounds spells can reverse the penalty, with the level of the spell required being based on the degree of the wound - minor would be cure moderate, damage would be cure serious, and drain would be cure crit. Since this isn't actualy damage/drain like that dealt by a negative energy spell, but "virtual" damage/drain cause by massive trauma, I'd say it could be reversed by simply healing the wound(s). Half of the damage from the spell is also applied to healing the wound.</blockquote>

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