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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 1123585" data-attributes="member: 2723">To get a little more specific...  There are two kinds of damage. Stun Attacks and Lethal Attacks. So an attack would be listed as something like +7L or +10S to represent how much damage it does and whether it's a Stun or Lethal Attack.  As d4 pointed out, Damage Save is modified by Con. So someone with a Con of 14 has a +2 Damage Save (There are other ways to improve the Damage Save, but off the top of my head, I can't think of any ways to do it in D&D). So let's see you get shot by a rifle which does +7L. The Difficulty is 15 + the damage modifier, in this case 7. So you need to equal or beat a 22 with a d20+2 roll.  So you roll your save. Depending on how you roll, it affects what kind of injury you sustain. For Lethal Attacks, if you fail the roll you're Injured (Which gives you a cumulative -1 to future Damage Saves against both Stun and Lethal Attacks). If you fail by 5 or more points then you're Stunned (Same as above, except you're also stunned for 1 round, and so can't do anything for 1 round. You also lose your Dodge Bonus to Defense and attackers gain a +2 to hit you). If you fail by 10 or more then you're Disabled (The equivalent of being at 0 HP. Any strenuous activity on your part will reduce you to Dying. More on that in a bit).  For Stun Attacks, you're either Bruised (Which is like Injured, except that those Damage Save penalties don't apply against Lethal Attacks), Stunned (As above), or Unconscious (You're knocked out cold. Further Stun attacks against you while you're unconscious count as Lethal).  Two other physical conditions are Dying and Dead. When you're Dying, you have to take repeated checks with an ever increasing Difficulty to avoid death. And Dead is, of course, death. You're gone.  There're also optional Damage rules for when you fail your Damage Save by an exceedily large margin. For instance, when failing a Damage Save against a Lethal Attack by 15 or more, you're Dying. And when failing it by 20 or more, you're instantly killed. Personally, I like these optional rules. But that's just me, of course (Though I imagine that, if Unearthed Arcana has the M&M Damage Save rules, that they'll include those Optional Rules as Standard, too. After all, D&D's supposed to be a lot bloodier than your average super-hero campaign).  But anyway, I like the Damage Save rule as a whole. It's quick and easy, and depending on how badly you're hurt by an attack, the injury can inhibit your ability to continue to fight. As opposed to the current HP system, which is an all-or-nothing deal. If you have 100 HP's and take 99 points of damage, then you're fighting ability isn't affected. Isn't until you take that one extra point of damage that you're affected. And after that, it'll only take one more point to knock you out.</blockquote>

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