Thresholds and Fort Saves

[takyris]

I know, I know, it's a bit presumptuous to start throwing around House Rules before I even have the dang book. But that's never stopped me before.

Any math people or people some experience so far or anything care to comment on the possible following house rule?

Instead of having the Massive Damage save be a flat Fort DC15, I was considering having it be at "Damage Dealt". Ergo, you're hit for 23 points damage, it's a Fort(23).

This is a ton more lethal for the big damage. It's going to hurt the players (and anyone the players attack) more than it'll help anyone -- I could only see a few cases where a low-Con person is hit for 12 points damage and only has to make a Fort DC12 instead of 15.

Thoughts? Too killer? Game-Breaker? I don't have a game starting yet, so really, this is not an "I'm going to kill the players next week with this rule" kind of scenario. I'm just kicking around possibilities.

-Tacky

 

[Unseelie]

Seems far too fatal to me, but then I generally resent the time that it takes for my players to roll up new characters every week.

I'm assuming that this is for D20M, not regular D&D... it would favor spell casters too much in regular D&D. One 10th level maximized fireball would do 60 points. NO ONE will make a DC60 save, IMO.

 

[Mistwell]

I know, I know, it's a bit presumptuous to start throwing around House Rules before I even have the dang book. But that's never stopped me before.

Well, why not try the system as written, prior to changing it. I mean, it was playtested to death by the authors themselves, in a game that has only been out a month, that you haven't even read fully yet.

Just have a little faith and give it a try as written, and THEN decide if you need/want a houserule. Why muck about with a balance issue before you fully understand the consequences of doing so?