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The lingering injuries table in the DMG is too boring and too punishing. Here's a better one.
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Better Lingering Injuries in D&D
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/20627854
I wrote a blog post about how Lingering Injuries in the DMG kind of sucks, and proposed better rules:
In the Dungeon Master's Guide 2014, there is a section in chapter 9 under the section titled “Lingering Injuries” that applied when a character took a critical hit, dropped to zero hitpoints, or fails a death saving throw by 5 or more. In one of the campaigns I ran, our playgroup wanted a slightly harsher ruleset, but we found the lingering injuries as written to not be particularly fun. We found it to be too frequent; player characters would often end up with many lingering injuries ‒ too severe; player characters would end up with debilitating injuries and it wouldn't be fun to play then ‒ and not applicable to the kind of damage received; how could a character lose an arm after breathing a toxic gas?
So, I present reworked rules for lingering injuries tha
The hurdle I see to that is not necessarily changing system myself, but convincing my playgroup to change too. It's hard enough scheduling the group, let alone getting them to learn a new system!
Better Lingering Injuries in D&D
I wrote a blog post about how Lingering Injuries in the DMG kind of sucks, and proposed better rules:
In the Dungeon Master's Guide 2014, there is a section in chapter 9 under the section titled “Lingering Injuries” that applied when a character took a critical hit, dropped to zero hitpoints, or fails a death saving throw by 5 or more. In one of the campaigns I ran, our playgroup wanted a slightly harsher ruleset, but we found the lingering injuries as written to not be particularly fun. We found it to be too frequent; player characters would often end up with many lingering injuries ‒ too severe; player characters would end up with debilitating injuries and it wouldn't be fun to play then ‒ and not applicable to the kind of damage received; how could a character lose an arm after breathing a toxic gas?
So, I present reworked rules for lingering injuries that are more fun and make more sense.
Circumstances for sustaining
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