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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2064846" data-attributes="member: 6957">One of the things I quickly found in OGL Steampunk is that with Massive Damage equal to the target's Con people could get very dead, very quickly.As an alternative I have started using the Hit Location rules that I first read in AEG's Swashbuckling Adventures. (Does anybody know the original source?) Allowing a character to spend an action point to instead roll on a handy dandy loss of limb chart rather than die.It also allows me to use the rules for the prosthetic limbs described in E. N. Publishing's Steam & Steel, which for me is part of Steampunk's flavor. It also explains the limping, wounded veterans shuffling around and jumping at sudden noises. There's a war on you know...In play it has worked out well, with one character losing a leg. Rather than a prosthetic the character has decided to have a souped up wheelchair built. (With a hidden compartment holding a simple prosthetic for emergencies.)  Losing a limb as the result of a critical would have annoyed him, having the choice to lose a limb rather than lose the character was a whole different ball o' wax.Has anyone done something similar?The Auld Grump, the boiler blew at half past six. Fire down below!*EDIT* None of the categories listed quite fit... Steampunk is, well... Steampunk!</blockquote>