And during the last session, I ignored it because I had made a minor mistake in calculating the damage, so the character would not have quite gone down from the hit (I figured it was a good compromise - no retroactive actions, but no punishing the character for what was my mistake as it turned out, the character dropping was immaterial to the outcome of the battle).
DMG 5E LASTING DAMAGE TABLE ZIP
Sometimes, I ignored it for the sake of expediency - I wanted combat to zip along without reading the table. But sometimes, the roll didn't make any sense - they were fighting giant spiders who can kill you with poison, but probably not give you an internal injury by biting you. It's not that I mind PCs having internal injuries (which require DC15 to perform an action afterwards) - for all the above reasons. What I began to find is that "Internal Injury" began to come up in virtually every session, and that I began to ignore the roll. Long story short, combat became more common (at least for the time being), and so did rolls on the Lingering Injury Table as a result of enemy criticals and PCs being knocked to 0 HP.
DMG 5E LASTING DAMAGE TABLE SERIES
Once the characters attained 3rd level, I stopped being quite so cautious about putting them in dangerous situations, and they began to explore a series of caves en route to an underground city.
In the beginning, things worked well because my game was more of an intrigue and social interaction game, and combat was quite rare. Not because I'm mean (well, I am mean), but because I want to encourage non-combat play by making combat risky and dangerous. 272).īackground to the question: initially, I was well-disposed toward this rule, because I like grittier, AD&D-style combat (and injury recovery rules). Just wanted to get people's take on the Lingering Injuries optional rule in the DMG (p.
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