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<blockquote data-quote="nsruf" data-source="post: 139467" data-attributes="member: 872">I considered using &quot;armor bonus = DR&quot; like Ken Hood's system first, but then, anybody but a fighter with high Str has trouble hurting people in heavy armor at all. So I decided on this mixed system of full AC bonus and small reduction.And e.g. having DR 4/- from magical plate armor will at least increase character survivability vs &quot;regular opponents&quot; like orcs and goblins. A dragon can still tear you to shreds, of course.I only browsed through the book once at a friend's place, so I don't know what they are, exactly. Could be I have to scale them back when I introduce them to my campaign.Yes, anything I don't mention stays the same. So a critical with x3 or x4 multiplier can kill even a high-level character with one blow. But this is the kind of realism I want for my campaign.I should mention that I don't give out &quot;kill XP&quot;, but only story awards. If you use a damage system like this, the whole system of CR and EL goes down the drain, of course. I don't think a 20th level party using my rules could stand up to a CR 20 creature without extensive preparation.Agreed, I use this rule mainly for sake of simplicity. Averaging the points seemed to much of a hassle and always using 1st lvl HD is unfair, IMO. I see the HD part of hp as an acquired tolerance vs pain that can be trained, even later in life.I think it is not worse than a wizard picking up lots of weapon and armor proficiencies by taking a single level of fighter - something I don't like very much under the core rules. But if you wanted, you could e.g. limit the hp increase to +2 points per level, until the new, higher HD was reached.Another thing that becomes rather unelegant is hp progression for monsters that advance through several size categories. E.g. a dragon will hardly progress in hp through the ages but for the extreme &quot;bumps&quot; when it increases in size. But I don't see a fix for that if I want to keep size as a factor.Thanks<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="nsruf, post: 139467, member: 872"] I considered using "armor bonus = DR" like Ken Hood's system first, but then, anybody but a fighter with high Str has trouble hurting people in heavy armor at all. So I decided on this mixed system of full AC bonus and small reduction. And e.g. having DR 4/- from magical plate armor will at least increase character survivability vs "regular opponents" like orcs and goblins. A dragon can still tear you to shreds, of course. I only browsed through the book once at a friend's place, so I don't know what they are, exactly. Could be I have to scale them back when I introduce them to my campaign. Yes, anything I don't mention stays the same. So a critical with x3 or x4 multiplier can kill even a high-level character with one blow. But this is the kind of realism I want for my campaign. I should mention that I don't give out "kill XP", but only story awards. If you use a damage system like this, the whole system of CR and EL goes down the drain, of course. I don't think a 20th level party using my rules could stand up to a CR 20 creature without extensive preparation. Agreed, I use this rule mainly for sake of simplicity. Averaging the points seemed to much of a hassle and always using 1st lvl HD is unfair, IMO. I see the HD part of hp as an acquired tolerance vs pain that can be trained, even later in life. I think it is not worse than a wizard picking up lots of weapon and armor proficiencies by taking a single level of fighter - something I don't like very much under the core rules. But if you wanted, you could e.g. limit the hp increase to +2 points per level, until the new, higher HD was reached. Another thing that becomes rather unelegant is hp progression for monsters that advance through several size categories. E.g. a dragon will hardly progress in hp through the ages but for the extreme "bumps" when it increases in size. But I don't see a fix for that if I want to keep size as a factor. Thanks:) [/QUOTE]

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