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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 5813707" data-attributes="member: 31646">Pretty good system from the OP. Perhaps a little complicated though. Why not just have 0 HP stagger you so you cant act for a round and then every shot after that does full damage directly to CON or STR? Gets rid of negative HP madness. Makes lasting wounds grittier, and has simple math. Maybe let HP heal 1 pt per round outside of combat while they are getting a breather. Like going to your corner between rounds in MMA. And make actual ability damage heal much more slowly. Maybe 1 pt a day and limit the amount that magical healing can zap it up. Let magic do it but maybe only ad a point or two a day. You could even make some things like barehands or the monster equivalent do non-lethal damage and knock you out at 0 CON instead of killing you. So that a character can really get beat to hell in a bar fight, maybe crack some ribs, break an arm etc but not worry about dying from a lucky punch in that same fight.</blockquote>