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I've stopped using this in favor of 4e style minions when I want to let it be easier to kill mob monsters.It's compounding fall damage. I've stopped using this cause it's hard to remember to use it and I'd rather only apply an injury in a dramatic sense where a character would have died but it's more dramatically satisfying to leave them alive with a long term injury (I'd ask the player if they want to take the injury or die)Massive damage: taking a load of damage makes it easier to kill a creature. I use this for the following: Climb on a Larger Creature, Disarm, Overrun, Shove aside, and tumble through.Hitting cover (pg 272): For when characters are using other characters or fragile objects as cover, if it would have hit them were it not for the cover, resolve the attack against the cover.Edit: some rules I've use that I don't any more:Lingering injuries: certain circumstances cause major, long term injuries. This makes determining circles easier and while still keeping a meaningful difference between squares and circles on the grid without having characters able to leave circle effects quicker by moving diagonally.Wands don't recharge (pg 141): I like giving out wands as an expendable resource without having to worry about a character just having more spells per day as the base wand rule gives them.Firearms and explosives (pg 267): Guns! I don't use this in most games but when I'm setting a game in an period where they exist, I find them to be a decent rule for them and I allow them as martial ranged weapons.Other actions in combat (pg 271): this is the rule for all the other stuff you can do in a fight without being a battlemaster fighter. I don't think anyone's rolled on it one of my games yet.Diagonals (pg 252): Every other diagonal movement on a grid counts as two. I use this cause it's fun and interesting, at least conceptually.

For 70, since you have fallen 10 feet 7 times, it would be: 1+2+3+4+5+6+7. Maybe the simplest, non-formulaic way to calculate the number of dice would be to take the number of feet fallen, let's say 70, and add integers together. The idea is that as you accelerate, you take more damage, so each successive ten feet fallen adds an additional 1d6 to the 1d6 you take in the basic rules. The 10 feet from 20 to 30 feet damages you for 3d6 now you're at 6d6 (1d6 for the first 10 feet, 2d6 for the second 10 feet, 3d6 for the third ten feet). This means that at 20 feet, you are taking 3d6 damage (1d6 for the first 10 feet, 2d6 for the second 10 feet).

(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10).Lingering injuries, climbing onto bigger creatures, morale, renown and then I throw in a few house rules that players know about in session 0.Lingering injuries to add a bit more, well lingering injuries and give character a chance to pick up scars that they can tell the stories of. With this variant rule, you would hit 10d6 damage at only 40 feet (1+2+3+4), and at 100 feet, you would be taking 55d6 damage. At 100 feet, you would only be taken 10d6 damage (10*1).

I like the idea, because it allows even the DM to be surprised.For example, your PCs encounter a bunch of goblins, but you make a reaction roll and it comes out friendly, maybe these Goblins have other problems or simply want to trade. But by adding a wider array of magical prosthetics (that cost attunement), though it has yet to come up, has helped my party be more receptive to the rule.Reaction rolls used to be a thing in old-school D&D, but have mostly gone by the wayside in 5e. With lingering injuries I worried about how at low levels rolling pourly could invalidate a character. Not exactly the intended use but it fits what I needed of it.So far my experience with these rules have really fit the campaigns I used them in. Not everything is a death cultist willing to fight to the last no matter the odds.Renown I'm using as a way to just track how the adventure's home base sees them, as a gauge of how heroic they are and how much their story is spread.

All you need to remember is 8 is positive. I'm sure there's an equivalent in the 5e DMG, but the rules from Basic are simple enough they don't need to be modified. The reaction roll adds some random chance and uncertainty to every encounter.Generally you would add the Charisma modifier of your most charismatic PC, or the one who did the talking.The nice thing is that this simple system can be transplanted into 5e with no adjustments. Perhaps they mistake the PCs for a wanted fugitive and attack on sight!It opens up lots of interesting narrative options.Obviously, some things don't get reaction rolls (undead.) but many creatures aren't going to instantly attack.

The reacting creature(s) is/are naturally very welcoming The players are in a particularly friendly location That same roll of a 6 with a group of Hobgoblins, might mean they just hesitate to assess the threat before they attack, because Hobgoblins are naturally aggressive, while the bear might just want to forage and not tangle with a half-dozen armed PCs. For example, if the players encounter a regular, old Brown Bear, and I roll a 6, I might make the bear ignore them. The point is to keep encounters from being the same slog every time.The DM's discretion plays a large role here, and you can add your own interpretation based on the creature you're rolling for. Maybe your hobgoblins get a -5 to the results and your wandering cleric gets a +2.

Meanwhile an ordinary encounter with no modifiers has a minimum of 3 so an immediate fight is avoided, and a 12 is possible.First, in Basic D&D, the lethality is very high. A naturally hostile creature in the wilderness, such as a roaming goblin, will have only 1d4 to roll, meaning a +4 charisma would be needed to take an attack off the table consistently, +2 at the very least. The players have some unspoken barrier, such as racial prejudice, or bearing a symbol of ill repute.In this way, the roll can drop down drastically, even to 0d4 if the place is bad, the creature is bad, and the players on the back foot before even interacting. The reacting character(s) is/are naturally more hostile The players are in a particularly bad place

Likewise, a monster defending its lair, or out hunting, would either not make a roll or make one with a significant penalty to the result. The skeleton, for example, doesn't give a damn, it just attacks to kill. One hit can literally kill, so this is a way to lesson the lethality of random encounters.Many monsters wouldn't get a reaction roll.

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