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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8922842" data-attributes="member: 7026594">The explanation JackMann provided about how Gygax allegedly INTENDED falling damage to work is indeed something Frank Mentzer explained, as Sacrosanct remembered.&nbsp; That was in Dragon Magazine issue 70 (page 13).&nbsp; Of course, as Frank openly admits in that article, that never actually made it into the rulebooks.&nbsp; And the ridiculous explanation nuTSR gives for it in their module is far from clear.Dan &quot;Delta&quot; Collins also tackled the falling damage question in a lot of detail on his blog some time back, and covered much of the same ground you guys just have. Including the bimodal lethality distribution (relating, IRL, to whether the falling person hits their head) and how a saving throw is probably a smart way to model that.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2018/02/falling-revisted.html[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2020/07/falling-re-revisited.html[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 8922842, member: 7026594"] The explanation JackMann provided about how Gygax allegedly INTENDED falling damage to work is indeed something Frank Mentzer explained, as Sacrosanct remembered. That was in Dragon Magazine issue 70 (page 13). Of course, as Frank openly admits in that article, that never actually made it into the rulebooks. And the ridiculous explanation nuTSR gives for it in their module is far from clear. Dan "Delta" Collins also tackled the falling damage question in a lot of detail on his blog some time back, and covered much of the same ground you guys just have. Including the bimodal lethality distribution (relating, IRL, to whether the falling person hits their head) and how a saving throw is probably a smart way to model that. [URL unfurl="true"]http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2018/02/falling-revisted.html[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2020/07/falling-re-revisited.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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