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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7802300" data-attributes="member: 7006">For both my current campaigns and my last set of campaigns I also did the "Exhaustion Table instead of 3 Death saves" for when PCs hit 0.  I also much prefer it because it gives meaning to dropping to 0 HP.  But as I also had a bit of a conceptual issue with the first level being Disadvantage on ability checks (one of the items on the list I think should be less likely to result from being really tired)... I re-arranged my Exhaustion table as so:Level 1: Speed reduced to half.Level 2: Max HP reduced to halfLevel 3: Attacks and saves at disadvantageLevel 4: Ability checks at disadvantageLevel 5: Speed reduced to 0Level 6: DeathBy doing it this way, it punishes a PC's ability to fight any further before it punishes them from doing standard non-combat actions (like remembering stuff about magic or talking to people.)  Which is what I prefer.  If you are getting hammered and beaten down in combat... then I think its your combat skills that should take the penalties first.  Because then it inspires players to not let a single PC take all the damage.  They realize they can't let their tank take ALL the damage, because that will just exhaust him and then they won't actually have an effectual tank for the next fight.  So they learn to distribute damage over more players... and thus things like the stupid archer Ranger PC (who has oftentimes just as many HP as the melee characters) can't just continually hide in the trees like a wimp.  They actually have to man up and sometimes take a hit.Because nobody wants their melee tank to lose half their max HP.  Because then they are really screwed if they can't get away to go and rest.</blockquote>

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