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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3880337" data-attributes="member: 18549">Fast healing works like it normally does, and impacts hit points.  Under this system it turns into "being really hard to wound".  You could, if you like, tack on "recover 1 WP per hour per point of fast healing," but I don't suppose it will come up often.Regeneration still converts lethal into nonlethal damage.  Nonlethal damage causes wounds just like lethal damage.  If you have more non-lethal than lethal damage you don't begin to die at 0 WP, you're just unconscious.  However, you look like Rocky in the last five minutes of the movie, and it takes just as long to recover.  If you have regeneration, you recover WPs at the rate of 1 WP per round per 5 regeneration.It's supposed to be "equals".Well, actually, it's 3 x Con.  My players fought a barbarian last week who took forever to go down for this reason.  However, he really started to show that he was getting seriously wounded because he started missing them a lot with the -5 and -10 penalties. With 3 x Con (min +1 x3), the average commoner goes down at -12 and dies outright at -15.They do 2 wounds.  You take wounds equal to the crit modifier -1.  Anyway, I wouldn't care too much if there was an increased focus on scoring crits in this way.  In my game, I only use this system for PCs and "named" characters, so regular monsters still go down at 0 hp.Now, consider this.  In my old Age of Worms campaign, the same raging barbarian I mention above killed a PC in one shot by rolling a crit on the first round of combat, doing 58 points of damage with his greataxe (x3 crit modifier).  He died due to the bonus damage alone, without even considering the rolled damage or the massive damage save (which I don't use anyway).  Under my system, the PC would have taken 2 wounds, been at full HP and -2 on his rolls, and would have been a bit haggard but still good for the fight.Yeah, I don't really care about having to shave off a few odd spells here and there if they don't play well with my system.  In this specific case, however, you could just apply the appropriate number of wounds on a failed save (5, for a 9th level spell).Disintegrate does damage.  If it does enough damage to kill you outright (to -15 if you're the aforementioned 10 Con guy), you're disintegrated.  If it doesn't, you just take the appropriate amount of HP damage, and wounds if applicable.Yup.  That's why it's an option and I spell out that it makes wounds suck even more.  It's just something I thought of for people who might not like the whole "getting totally healed to full HP after each combat" thing.  It's an option specifically to make things more deadly, and definitely optional.</blockquote>

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