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<blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 7114376" data-attributes="member: 5890">The problem is that falling 10 feet shouldn't be worse than being hit with a greatsword, which both of your systems do. So unless you are going to have some mitigation method, then your methods are ridiculously deadly.Might I suggest simply reducing the damage by the acrobatic check number for the &quot;damage = foot/sec&quot; model? And if the fall is deliberate, award advantage on the check. That makes someone with 6 hitpoints and no training always survive a 10 foot fall (but might seriously injure themselves), they will sometimes survive a 20 foot fall (and usually get injured) and they will never survive a 50 foot fall. At the extreme end of the scale, people who are really, really good at acrobatics are still going to take damage most of the time from a 50 foot fall, and will always take damage from bigger falls than that but will be able to ignore 20 foot ones. that seems like the right zone for me. Meanwhile a 1500 foot fall is going to wreck all but the toughest adventurers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saeviomagy, post: 7114376, member: 5890"] The problem is that falling 10 feet shouldn't be worse than being hit with a greatsword, which both of your systems do. So unless you are going to have some mitigation method, then your methods are ridiculously deadly. Might I suggest simply reducing the damage by the acrobatic check number for the "damage = foot/sec" model? And if the fall is deliberate, award advantage on the check. That makes someone with 6 hitpoints and no training always survive a 10 foot fall (but might seriously injure themselves), they will sometimes survive a 20 foot fall (and usually get injured) and they will never survive a 50 foot fall. At the extreme end of the scale, people who are really, really good at acrobatics are still going to take damage most of the time from a 50 foot fall, and will always take damage from bigger falls than that but will be able to ignore 20 foot ones. that seems like the right zone for me. Meanwhile a 1500 foot fall is going to wreck all but the toughest adventurers. [/QUOTE]

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