When you're the severer. Not the severee.Chainsaw wrote:Yeah.. I appreciate the pragmatism and practicality of abstract wounds/HP, but severed limbs are fun!
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Paging Jon Hershberger, paging Jon Hershberger: rat-bastard DM use of critical hits tables required.
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Re: My arm got cut off - quick, cast CLW!
Chainsaw wrote:
Granted, Gygax appears to belie the above points from the DMG in his description of the physical fitness droid : A score of 20 “to hit” means the victim has a broken limb (determine randomly) (19 S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks). That is, specific injuries are applied based on a "to hit" die roll, but are again not confused with hit points of damage.
No doubt. I would only suggest specific injuries be 'applied' and related to losing the last handful of hit points to avoid conflating them with the loss of hit points directly. Thus healing with CLW does not directly relate to specific injuries.-but severed limbs are fun!
Granted, Gygax appears to belie the above points from the DMG in his description of the physical fitness droid : A score of 20 “to hit” means the victim has a broken limb (determine randomly) (19 S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks). That is, specific injuries are applied based on a "to hit" die roll, but are again not confused with hit points of damage.
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Heh - severed limbs are just part of the fun when you roll with a CH/BM table. 
We've got a half orc fighter in our party that lost an ear in one battle. Didn't slow that mofo down one bit. He still "kickes the door down and CHARGES IN"!!! We now affectionately refer to him as Grundel One Ear! How fucking badass is that?!?
We've got a half orc fighter in our party that lost an ear in one battle. Didn't slow that mofo down one bit. He still "kickes the door down and CHARGES IN"!!! We now affectionately refer to him as Grundel One Ear! How fucking badass is that?!?
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I seem to recall that some magical swords remove limbs without killing the character. In such cases, it seems to me that regeneration is required to restore the missing extremity, but hit points would still be regained from cure light wounds.
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Re: My arm got cut off - quick, cast CLW!
CLW brings back the HP.Chainsaw wrote:How would you resolve this? Non-issue because grievous wounds are "after the fact" descriptions used when someone's already dead? What if you wanted to include them as part of what happens when you "go negative"?
You need a regeneration spell to bring back that arm, though.