For it is Dark and We May Die (a dismemberment table)

Are you prepared for the death
you've earned, little man?

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We had been playing with "CON score is your back real HP". But it seems a bit too easy. Just a bit. So I'm thinking of a new rule (I think Arnold K and Cavegirl deserve some idea credit here): 
 
Minimum HP is zero. While you are at 0 HP, you are fine, but you can only take a number of extra hits equal to your CON mod, and each hit will force a roll on the table below.

 Roll a d20+damage taken from the attack that hit you while you were in this state.

1~5          Supine: You're knocked down indefinitely and have to make a STR check to stand up, unless an ally spends their action to rally you.

6~15       KOed: You’re out until you make a CON check or someone uses an action to splash you with something. Equal chance of a concussion or a scar.

16+        Maimed: You lose a limb, an eye, or some fingers. You survive, but you're not whole. Besides the logical problems of losing bits, you need to roll a CHA check vs this roll or freak out for the rest of the day too; d6 1) Go ape-shit; 2) Run away--roll on the megadungeon table; 3) Nihilisticly give up; 4) Revert to childlike personality; 5) Manic screaming or laughter that the others cannot shut up; 6) fruitless attempt to reattach missing bit.

Nat 20    Gory death: Every ally that witnesses it has to roll CHA vs 12 or freak out as per the above.

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