I dislike level 1-2 D&D because of how random it is: one crit kills you, and you can one-hit-crit enemies too. See, I'm not a proponent of 'one hit kills you' systems. My perfect RPG lethality level would be pretty high, with wounds and damage to armor and clothing, but also ways to keep yourself alive in dire situations, such as using bandages to stop bleeding and using healing magic to seal wounds, but still suffering from morale shock and stamina loss. Like how in the Total War games you don't win fights by killing every enemy soldier, but by breaking their morale and making them rout. And stamina is also important to keep track of.Īdding stuff like stamina and morale to a combat system means that there are other ways to win the fight than just whittling down HP, and whittling down HP in fact becomes less important than breaking morale or sapping stamina. And damage to health can also cause a wound that gives a malus. You gotta crack the armor before you can hurt your enemy. Lethality is fairly high, but armor serves as a second hitpoint pool to soak up damage. I like how Battle Brothers represents combat. Click to expand.Yeah but shield walls don't work as hitpoint soakers, but as 'for most of the combat nobody does any damage to anyone, they just tire each other out and try to sap morale and the side that breaks first gets fucked'.

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