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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anubis" data-source="post: 199128" data-attributes="member: 2358">There's a reason your players didn't like it.  IT'S VERY VERY BAD AND DOESN'T WORK.  That is swayed EXTREMELY badly toward the bad guys.  Oh, and there is already a core rule that overrides it: the DMG says that taking half hit points in a single strike causes the victim to be "clobbered", and they may only take a partial action on their next turn.  (After that they're back to normal, though, of course.)And at low levels, that rule could be a killer.  A wizard can start with as few as 4 HP, which would make pretty much ANY hit a KO.That has got to rank amongst the worst house rules I have ever seen.  Too lethal.  Lethal is bad.  You do the math.I like the armor>subdual thing, and in conjuction with the Con>disabled rule, things could get much LESS lethal.</blockquote>