Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Doesn't that make it impossible to lose consciousness due to injury?
D&D General Good Lingering Injury table?
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SteveC
Doing the best imitation of myself
Just a thought: make sure you run whatever rules you're using by your players, and make sure you have clearly defined ways to clear the injuries, something that 5E does not have by default.
For what it's worth, unless the game would be changed to have much fewer combats, this would be something that would make me pass on a campaign. Something to think about: make sure your players are onboard and consider how this will affect your campaign.
For what it's worth, unless the game would be changed to have much fewer combats, this would be something that would make me pass on a campaign. Something to think about: make sure your players are onboard and consider how this will affect your campaign.
Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
There are always those old role master crit tables
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I remember those from MERP. That's what got me excited about higher sim in RPGs.
EldritchHistory
Explorer
I never had a group interested enough for me to actually write it out, but I always thought it should be tied to death saving throw failures.
The more failures rolled the more severe the injury, and type of damage would determine the form it would take.
Gives a more mechanic reason why an injury would be worse as opposed to a random roll and incentives allies to heal quickly instead of letting them stay down.
The more failures rolled the more severe the injury, and type of damage would determine the form it would take.
Gives a more mechanic reason why an injury would be worse as opposed to a random roll and incentives allies to heal quickly instead of letting them stay down.
Horwath
Legend
this, with a twist.
I like the various tables for injury here, but stacking exhaustion is just much cleaner and easier.
max exhaustion levels: 10, dead it you would get 11th
-1 to all d20 rolls, -1 AC, -1 all DCs, per exhaustion level
-5ft speed/ 2 exhaustion levels, round down.
every time you drop to 0 HP you get exhaustion level.
this levels can be removed by getting healed to 50/75/100% max HP(depending on how gritty you want it) or after Short or Long rest, again depending on how gritty you want to have it.
every 24hrs without sleep: 1 exhaustion level(this is removed by 1 level per every Long rest)
every 12hrs without water: 1 exhaustion level
every 2 days without food: 1 exhaustion level
use it for most poisons and diseases and even with variant old age penalties.
variant:
middle age: 1 permanent exhaustion level
old age: 2 permanent exhaustion levels, replaces middle age penalty
venerable: 3 permanent exhaustion levels, replaces old age penalty
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