The Dungeon Master’s Guide provides the inspiration and guidance you need to spark your imagination and create worlds of adventure for your players to explore and enjoy. Inside you’ll find world-building advice, tips and tricks for creating memorable dungeons and adventures, optional game rules, hundreds of classic D&D magic items, and many. May 06, 2019 I currently don't use lingering injuries, instead I abstract dropping to zero with causing a level of Exhaustion. I am thinking about trying it out though. Don't use Massive Damage - I feel it can penalize low level characters too greatly. I don't use Morale as presented here, I steal morale and reaction rules, whole cloth from B/X.

Jan 28, 2015 Lingering injuries have a Injury Point Value. Actions taken to heal the injury reduce the point value. When the injury is reduced to zero points all penalties are removed and the character is healed. As a general rule, lingering injuries should start with.
Sep 18, 2018 Looking for some good expanded lingering injury tables, one in the DMG is alright but I want more. And I want it divided by damage type as well. Drop links to some good injury tables, or add some suggestions for injuries.
These injuries come with a mechanical penalty which makes sense when paired with the flavor of the wound. Some folks out there, like my main man David Gibson of 5-Minute Workday, have taken issue with lingering injuries as presented in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. They feel the chances of losing an eye or a limb are too great for most games.

Lingering Injuries

“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee.” - Town Guard, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Damage normally leaves no lingering effects. This option introduces the potential for long term injuries. More frequent injuries allows combat to have roleplaying consequences and creates a grittier, more realistic flavor, but can cripple characters' fighting ability.

Inflicting Injuries

It's up to you to decide when to check for a lingering injury. Keep in mind that player characters are subject to these effects far more frequently than monsters, so be careful when deciding how often you want to use this option.

A creature might sustain a lingering injury under the following circumstances:

Rarely: When it fails a death saving throw by 5 or more
Occasionally: When it drops to 0 hit points but isn't killed outright
Frequently: When it takes a critical hit or rolls a natural 1 on a saving throw

Types of Injuries. To determine the nature of the injury, roll a d20 after damage and all other effects have been resolved. If the injury was from Bludgeoning, Slashing, or Piercing damage, reference those tables. If the injury was from a different damage type, reference the Magical Injuries table. A result of 1-10 is a Major Injury and 11-20 is a Minor Injury for that damage type.

Roleplaying Lingering Injuries. Instead of using the effect described on the tables, you can put the responsibility of representing a character's lingering injury in the hands of the player. Roll on the Lingering Injuries tables as usual, but instead of suffering the effect described for that result, that character gains a new flaw with the same name. It's up to the player to express the lingering injury during play, just like any other flaw, with the potential to gain inspiration when the injury affects the character in a meaningful way.

Major and Minor Injuries

Some lingering injuries are more debilitating than others. When determining the severity of an injury, you can apply Advantage or Disadvantage depending on the circumstances.

Roll with disadvantage when conditions are more likely to cause a major injury:

The damage is of a type the target has vulnerability to.
The injury is inflicted from a creature more than one size category larger than the target.
The injury is inflicted from a creature with a CR or level higher than the target's.
The amount of damage causing the injury is greater than or equal to half its hit point maximum.

Roll with advantage when conditions are more likely to cause a minor injury:

The damage is of a type the target has resistance to.
The injury is inflicted from a creature more than one size category smaller than the target.
The injury is inflicted from a creature with a CR or level less than half the target's.
The target has legendary actions.

Recovery

Unlike wounds, most lingering injuries can't be healed with normal rest. If no duration is noted in the injury, the effect persists until the afflicted creature recovers.

Minor injuries can be recovered from with magical healing such as cure wounds, or spending five days doing nothing but resting.

Major injuries can usually only be removed with magical healing of 6th level or higher, such as heal and regenerate. At your discretion, the effects can be reduced through long-term adaptation, prosthetics, or magical assistance such as mage hand.

If an effect calls for a saving throw, someone can use their action to perform First Aid and make a Wisdom (Medicine) check in place of your next saving throw.

Infection

If a creature sustains a major injury, magical healing or a healer's kit must be used to dress the wound within 24 hours. If not, it becomes a festering wound. In addition to the effects of the major injury, the creature suffers the effects of a Minor Necrotic Injury as described on the Magical Injuries table.

The infection heals if the creature receives magical healing, or from any effect that cures disease. Alternately, someone can tend to the wound and make a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check once every 24 hours. After three successes, the infection heals.

Non-humanoids

This table assumes a typical humanoid physiology, but you can adapt the results for creatures with different body types. For example, an injury that affects the legs might affect the wings of a flying creature. If an injury would target a body part without an obvious analogue, roll again. If the reroll also fails, the creature does not sustain a lingering injury.

A creature can't suffer a lingering injury from a damage type it is immune to. Creature types without discernible anatomies are immune to certain types of lingering injuries; other immunities may apply at the DM's discretion (such as suffocation for creatures that don't need to breathe.)

Type	Immunity
Construct	All
Elemental	Bludgeoning, Slashing, Piercing, Poison
Ooze	All
Plant	Piercing
Undead	Piercing, Poison

Inspired by /u/GrasseatingGiant's5e conversion of AD&D Critical Effects and the Injuries option in the Dungeon Master's Guide pg 272.

This document v. 0.3 by Peter 'Galemp' Oliver 03/13/2017.

Bludgeoning Injuries

d20	Type	Injury
1	Head, Major	Fractured Skull. You drop to 0 hit points. If you are already at 0 hit points, you fail one death saving throw. If you stabilize or regain hit points, you remain unconscious.
2-5	Arm, Major	Shattered Arm. You cannot use weapons or objects that require the use of two hands, and have disadvantage on Strength ability checks and saving throws.
6-7	Torso, Major	Crushed Chest. You begin suffocating and drop to 0 hit points. If you are already at 0 hit points, you fail one death saving throw.
8	Abdomen, Major	Internal Bleeding. At the start of each of your turns, you must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, your hit point maximum is reduced by 1. If your hit point maximum reaches 0, you die. The effect ends if someone tending to you succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check during a short or long rest.
9-10	Leg, Major	Shattered Leg. If you move more than 5 feet on your turn, you fall prone at the end of the movement. You have disadvantage on Dexterity ability checks and saving throws.
11	Head, Minor	Concussion. You are stunned until the end of your next turn. You have disadvantage on Wisdom and Intelligence abilit

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