The best way to do Death Effects?

[Wepwawet]

Your forgetting one important thing: In 4E all classes will have the same HD!

WHAT?

 

[Anthtriel]

WHAT?

Yeah, won't happen, Wizards don't have the balls for that. Yet I would love it. That would ensure that Fighters actually are tougher (have higher constitution) than Wizards.

Interesting, this poll played out differently than the other one (with a slightly majority for the traditional way), though I guess that is in part due to the fact that some posters seem to have interpreted "Slow Death" quite different from others.

 

[Ahglock]

Death dependent on HP like the power word spells but with the saves/attack roll vs defenses factored in.

Sleep effect d4 targets. Any target with 5HP or less is asleep for 1 round per level. For every point you exceed the targets will save by it can effect a target who currently has one more HP.

 

[Frostmarrow]

I think some attacks could carry a condition payload. -See, whatever you attack with you do hp damage. If you are reduced to zero hp you become unconscious. Unless of course the attack has a condition payload. If it does you become affected of whatever the condition might be. (Normally you would start to bleed and die at -10 as per usual).

Examples:

Death - instant death
Baleful polymorph - you are turned to a frog
Petrification - you are turned to stone
Disintegration - you are turned to dust
...

If you are subject of a disintegrate attack and survive you still might have taken say 45 hp damage. Maybe you are now at 2 hp. Then someone hits you with a sap that does 5 hp non-lethal damage and renders you unconscious but not bleeding. The disintegrate is now long forgotten (because who like to keep track?).

 

[I'm A Banana]

Maybe they'll work off of the "bloodied" status? Similar to working on hit points, except without the risk of blasting away a fully healthy wizard?

 

[Ahglock]

Maybe they'll work off of the "bloodied" status? Similar to working on hit points, except without the risk of blasting away a fully healthy wizard?

Its not a bad idea but I want the ability to blast away certain people if there weak enough even at full health. I don't want to have to wait for the fighter to pimp slap a commoner for a round before I can finally turn him to stone.