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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6804362" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I don't actually see this as "changing rules on the fly," and even if I did, I don't see "deciding unconsciousness instead of death" as being in any way the same as modifying HP or damage or anything else.It's a shift in the nature of the consequence, but not in the fact of consequence. Altering a monster's HP (or any other statistic) is done to alter the fact of the consequence: a difference of kind and not degree. E.g. the monster remains a viable combatant, even though it should be removed from combat; the monster misses, even though it should hit or even crit; the speech succeeds when it should have failed; etc. These are not a shift of degree, where more-or-less the same result occurs but with modified consequences (usually long-term, e.g. unconsciousness vs. death--you're still unable to take actions, just temporarily rather than permanently); instead, it is a fundamentally different result.That's why I don't mind, as an example, making it so that MOST crits don't need to be confirmed (saving time) but SOME do, and a few just automatically aren't confirmed. It doesn't change the fundamental nature of the event--damage is still dealt--but it ameliorates the severity thereof. Deciding that the negative (or positive!) consequence doesn't happen at all is a totally different beast.</blockquote>