Quote from: GoOrangeThe damage threshold/wound track discussed in the previews for Star Wars Saga Edition sounded interesting. Could these be easily applied to D&D 3.5? Is there any reason it wouldn't work or would be a bad idea?

For those that have the SW-SE book, how would I go about doing this?

Thanks.

Quote from: WotCWebsiteDamage Threshold and Condition Track

There was one particularly nice thing about the vitality point/wound point system: It allowed for a character to be injured in a way that impaired his abilities but didn't render him unconscious. In fact, a common criticism of any hit point system is that characters are 100% healthy until they fall over from their injuries. Still, even the vitality point/wound point system didn't capitalize on this strength as well as it could have. By the time a character took wound damage, he was usually very close to being out of the fight.

In Saga Edition rules, we tried to keep this strength and expand on it. Thus, the performance of a character, droid, vehicle, or object will degrade over time if it takes sufficiently large amounts of damage. Every target has what's called a damage threshold. If the target takes damage equal to or greater than the threshold, it moves a step down the condition track.

The condition track is a unified system to cover all conditions that degrade a target's capabilities, including poison, stun blasts, fatigue, serious injury, morale effects, and anything else you can imagine. Each step that a character moves down the track imposes an increasing penalty on his actions and defenses, from –1 to –2 to –5 to –10. In addition, because the character is barely staying conscious, he's limited in what actions he can take.

When a character moves five steps down the condition track, he falls unconscious (or becomes disabled, for nonliving targets). In most cases, characters can "catch their breath" to move back up the condition track, and they can do so more quickly if they break away from combat for a round or two.

Thus, the damage threshold measures how much damage is required to move a target down the condition track. In addition, the threshold determines how much damage is needed to seriously injure or kill the target.
# If a target is reduced to 0 hit points but takes less damage than its threshold, the target is merely unconscious (or disabled).
# If the target falls to 0 hit points and takes more damage than its threshold, the target might be killed (or destroyed).

A character's damage threshold increases as he becomes more experienced. At low levels, a relatively weak weapon (such as an ordinary blaster pistol) is still a fairly serious threat, so 1st-level heroes have reason to fear a group of stormtroopers. At high levels, characters are more adept at avoiding damage, so they can dodge, parry, or block attacks that would be devastating or even lethal to lower-level characters. Thus, a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord can tear into each another for an extended period without slowing down too much.

Quote from: GoOrange...For those that have the SW-SE book...

Thanks.

Quote from: UmaSamaWhat? Wait a min. is it out already? :confused:

Quote from: UmaSamaWhat? Wait a min. is it out already? :confused:

Quote from: Christmas ApeOh, Saga has a wound track?

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