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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 4795008" data-attributes="member: 82504">Government Military/Medical studies even seem to agree with the fore mentioned house rule... people lose at most 5 percent of functionality  or they are out of the fight from shock. This is not something mostpeople seem to expect and is only subtly different than the base D&D rule, I certainly never thought D&D was that close to realistic?.On top of that there is something people also expect...  the same injury that left them at only 5 percent performance loss after the battle impairs them in various major ways.... muscles not wanting to be used freeze upin pain etc.... or shock and death setting in after the fight.Staving off the intense results is via adrenaline rush, morale various effects that we are now getting described in the newest D&D as either temporary or even real hit point recovery -- and yeah self induced... its a super pain killer your body makes.This delay of impact can last quite a while but ... normally lasts till the seeming end of immediate danger... ie the end of the encounter.Anybody want a death save after the battle if they took a wounds over a certain amount and a bunch of heftier impairments? slowed, blinded various other effects and in general hefty penalties?Those are what mister die hard might be fighting through he also puts on bursts of ability at the right time while impaired to surprise over confident foes... but adrenaline can dull the injuries some later after that first rush, when the danger proves to be still eminent, so maybe he is cycling between, -1 vague general impairment and slowed half, -5 to hit etc...  Anybody want a death save during the battle after every hit? The military said it was weirdly unpredictable how nasty a wound would result in shock and incapacitation... from battle to battle even with the same person sometimes a minor wound took em out.  I made up a saving throw based system that mirrored this (similar to the one in M&M), but kept armor separate as damage reduction and I didn't like it....I realized I actually like hit points for there predictability and that was the part of them that was un realistic.</blockquote>

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