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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Quixote" data-source="post: 1368394" data-attributes="member: 694">I run this system with a couple of fixes and patches.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sneak attacks, energized weapons, etc., basically anything that is "not multiplied by a critical hit" in the standard rules does not convert to wound damage by my rules.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spells that can critically hit only transfer some of their damage to WP, using the caster level as a damage cap.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">All magical healing, even cure spells, restores WP damage first.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A character naturally heals 1 WP per day, regardless of level.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Characters die as per the standard rules, "hovering at death's door" between -1 and -9 WP and dead at -10.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Armor grants DR equal to half its armor bonus, and this DR only protects WP, but isn't bypassed by a critical hit.</li> </ul>My biggest alteration, though, comes in the effects of damage I implemented.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A wounded character isn't fatigued, but does have to make a Fortitude save vs. DC 5 + the damage, or be knocked out (rather than stunned) for 1d4 rounds.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A character with 0 VP is fatigued.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Nonlethal attacks cannot deal WP damage.  Instead, they deal VP damage and can even drop a character's VP below 0.  A character with negative VPs is both fatigued and staggered, and any damage that does reduce a character to negative VPs calls for a save vs. knockout, just as if the character had taken WP damage.  A critical hit with a nonlethal weapon also deals only VP damage, but calls for a save vs. knockout.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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