Organ wounds.
Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2023 7:42 pm
Changing the organ damage system to be away from damage numbers to a wound like system would be a cool change. Unlike current wounds, they would be tracked on the organ and not the mob.
Effects that currently damage organs would instead inflict organ specific wounds, which have different effects depending on the organs. These wounds could be broken down into catagories like limb wounds. Chemical wounds like what you would get in your lungs from smoking to much, or in your liver for taking rough meds would be a given. Physical brain damage from too many hits in the head would now manifest brain trauma alongside wound instead of arbitrary amounts of damage.
The true utility of this change is it would allow scenarios where combat could effect your internal organs without us having to worry about it being overly lethal. The idea that bullet piercing wounds would damage an organ in that area were shot down for pretty clear balance reasons, you could get your lungs shredded out of no where and die in seconds. But if we could change that result from a flat amount of damage to a specific wound, say a “punctured lung” wound, we could balance around the effects of that wound specifically.
You could have bright light based wounds to your eye have a certain effect, and having one of your eyes put out with a screwdriver do another.
It seems like a more versatile system.
Effects that currently damage organs would instead inflict organ specific wounds, which have different effects depending on the organs. These wounds could be broken down into catagories like limb wounds. Chemical wounds like what you would get in your lungs from smoking to much, or in your liver for taking rough meds would be a given. Physical brain damage from too many hits in the head would now manifest brain trauma alongside wound instead of arbitrary amounts of damage.
The true utility of this change is it would allow scenarios where combat could effect your internal organs without us having to worry about it being overly lethal. The idea that bullet piercing wounds would damage an organ in that area were shot down for pretty clear balance reasons, you could get your lungs shredded out of no where and die in seconds. But if we could change that result from a flat amount of damage to a specific wound, say a “punctured lung” wound, we could balance around the effects of that wound specifically.
You could have bright light based wounds to your eye have a certain effect, and having one of your eyes put out with a screwdriver do another.
It seems like a more versatile system.