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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5955888" data-attributes="member: 42582">Aren't tinkering, and drum-banging for particular variants, just what is meant to be in a module (or perhaps a dial)?So suppose you go 4e or playtest style, and set starting hit points as CON + X. And hp are lost and gained all from a single pool, as per traditional D&D.It is then easy to say: as an option, treat the CON component of hp as wounds. And then to introduce variant healing rules for that. And, if you're adventurous, even ways of ignoring the "fatigue" hp and cutting straight to the wound points. Or wound penalties. Or an option to fall unconscious once wound points are taken (so CON becomes the back door, and hp totals play a bit more like classic D&D).This doesn't require rewriting the attack, damage or AC rules (as far as I can tell - though you might offer variant crit rules as part of it) and so seems to make an ideal module.If I don't want to go down that way, I don't have to. And if I'm feeling like a dose of "shouty fate peanuts", I instead use the "death saves/stabilisation roll give you a chance to revive" option printed in the sidebar on the opposite page. But this also doesn't require changing any other part of the game.And the warlord healing rules can appear under the warlord class description. You can ban warlords from your game, I can use them in mine, but they don't require changing the basic hit point mechanics: damage depletes, inspiration restores.If I want to use warlords and "CON hp = wound points", then I have to decide whether or not warlord healing can restore the CON points. But again, I can make that decision without having to rewrite any other part of the basic hit points mechanics.At least, this is how I envisage modularity working in this area.</blockquote>

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