Serous Wounds
     Sneak Attacks or Confirmed Critical
                 After 6 rounds take -1 on all checks and DC’s
                 
            (-1 penalty)
                     DC 15 heal check
                      Cure Serous Wounds spells or greater (or two of lower degree)
                     Bed rest
                 
Critical Wounds
     Dropping Blow (dropped to -1 hit points or more)
                 Fort save (DC 19 + negative hit points) or go unconscious
                              Lose 1 hit point per round until dead
                              -2 on all checks and DC’s

                (unconsciousness)
                               Bring hit points to zero or above
     
                (hit point loss)
                               Fort save (DC 16 + rounds dieing)
                           DC 20 heal check
                           Cure Critical Wounds spell or greater, or two of lower degree
                           (No hit points are gained until stabilized)
                 
               (-2 penalty and re-injury threat)
                               One night of bed rest starting at 0 hit points or above
     
                Taking a full round action after stabilization causes hit point to continue dropping again
                 
     Coup De Grace
                 Fort save (DC 10 + damage dealt by the critical) or die

               
                                 If survived treat as Dropping Blow
                                 Hit points are at -1, if not already negative
                                 (Blow might cause physical damage dependent on attack)
                 
     Massive Damage
                  Fort save (DC 15 + 1 per 10 damage past 50) or receive Dropping Blow
                 
     Instant Death Spells (Save-or-die spells)
                    Dropped too -1 hit points
                                 Become unconscious
                                 Lose 1 hit point per round until dead
                                 -4 on all checks and DC’s
           
                (hit point lose)
                             Cure Critical Wounds spell or greater
           
                (unconsciousness)
                             The passage of one day’s time and a total of 0 hit points or more is required.
                             (Hit points can not be raised too zero until awake)
           
                (-4 on all checks and DC’s)
                             Two nights of bed rest starting at 0 hit points or above



Healing Skill Usages

     Task                                    Heal DC
       Long-term care                           (DC 15)
       Treat minor wounds                   (DC 15)
       Stabilize creature (First aid)            (DC 20)
       Identify poison                             (Poison’s save DC)
     Treat poison                            (Poison’s save DC + 10)
     Identify disease                     (Disease’s save DC +10)
     Treat disease                           (Disease’s save DC +10)
     
     Detect near death                  (DC 10)
     Detect damage                        (DC 20)
     Detect resilience                    (DC 30)
     
     Long-term care: Provide long-term care meaning treating a wounded person for a day or more. If your heal check is successful, the patient recovers hit points or ability scores points (lost to ability damage) at twice the normal rate: 2 hit points per level for a full 8 hours of rest in a day, or 4 hit points per level for each full day of complete rest; 2 ability score points for a full 8 hours of rest in a day, or 4 ability score points for each full day of complete rest. You can tend as many as six patients at a time. You need a few items and supplies (bandages, salves, and so on) that are easy to come by in settled lands.
     Treat minor wounds: Treat wounds from critical hits, sneak attacks, caltrop, spike growth or spike stones removing the penalties these conditions exhibit.
     Stabilize creature (First aid): Use a full round action drawing an attack of opportunity to stabilize a dieing creature. You need a few items and supplies (bandages, salves, and so on) that are easy to come by in settled lands.
     Identify poison: You identify a poison, and discern its nature. Failing this check can cause the identifier to be poisoned depended on how the poison is used.
     Treat poison: You know the antidote of an identified poison, and how to make it. This requires any herbs or chemicals to reverse the effects of the poison. Some materials are hard to find.
     Identify disease: You identify a disease, and discern its nature. Failing this check can cause the identifier to be diseased dependent on the method of contraction.
     Treat disease: You know the means of curing an identified disease. This requires any herbs or chemicals to reverse the effects of the disease. Some materials are hard to find.

     Detect near death: With a spot check, a character using this skill can discern whether or not a target is above or below 10 hit points.
     Detect damage: With a spot check, a character using this skill can discern if a target is below 10 hit points, or is above or below 50% health.
     Detect resilience: Detect a target’s current hit points.



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I am thinking this:

Saves  = normal
Skills   = normal
Skills under duress = Normal or d20 your pick
Attacks = normal or d20 your pick

I was thinking it might be cool to give skills a +5 or -5 when they get a 1 or a 100 on the check.

How about I do one better.

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Update placed in house rules.

Out of much deliberation I have hammered out the travel rules. These will make little difference in your game, but it is nice for the teleporters to have them.


Travel Mechanics

All souled things have a limitation in the distance to which they can travel in a particular amount of time. Every being has a core position which moves with them. A creature can only be so far from their core before negative effects surface.

* The beings' core can only move 50 miles a day in the direction of its owner.
* A being can only be a limit of 1000 miles + (level*50) from their core before becoming sickened.
* A being can only be a limit of 1200 miles + (level*50) from their core before becoming unconscious.
* A being can only be a limit of 1400 miles + (level*50) from their core before dieing.

* Spells range is also limited to 1000 miles + (level*50). If a spell has a dispelable duration, and one moves out of their max spell range, it is dispelled. This spell range also limits spells like locate object, scry, and sending.

There is a great deal of point to not having the core move any faster, and I like the fact that increasing your level can give you only a light advantage to temporary distance traveled. I don't see why you would have a issue with the fact that cores do not increase speed, but distance from the core does.

You might be miss understanding the entire point of the range limitations. It is to keep lands as they are heterogeneous. In normal D&D everyone can be everywhere, every spell can talk to anyone, and where a high level character is, means nothing. The same goes for the gods. But D&D loves to act like this does not happen. Even though they talk about having countries and regions on a common rule, this is near impossible unless such places are not considered valuable enough to corrupt or concur.

The new 4.0 did has done away with this. They have finally noticed that civilized functional society can not exist and that only little towns cut off from every other little down works. They now have it in their basic descriptions of the world.

Now I do not like this fact. I know that the game is so easily broken. So one way to make it so that one goes is not allowed to play just as much role in one area as another is I make everything localized to a space. All can move around a great deal, but it takes time for them to move so far from their start.

Now it might seem like a trivial thing to give some spells the ability to go beyond that basic range limit. But their really can not be any connection between different regions except of course for the people passing on messages.

"It means you can get lost and mages can't find you which is a change in power?"
I have AWAYS been a supporter of the melee magic balance shift towards the fundamentally weak. So if you are arguing that melee being about to "escape" mages is an over powered thing, i would have to ahead and say well sure... and let them have it. And the range the a fighter would have to be away from a mage to make that so is huge, put all the mage has to do is travel in the direction he things he is in, and scry him there.

"So if you scry something 2000 miles away you get a general location. "

Don't think they should get a general location. Not if they are 2000 miles away.

"So you scry once a day and you get closer but you have to get within the 1000 miles before you can actually locate/see it."

Why is this so important a game dynamic, that a mage will be able to scower the planet looking for something?  They have a spell for that "Locate Object" which is also as limited.

" Magic should be more powerful than that.  So, when you are 'out of range' it points the mage in the right direction.  The movement limitations means it still takes a long time for him to get to you but this would let him still search.  It just has a better feel to me."

So this is an emotion issue. Because I feel there is no need for the mage to have the ability to find you everywhere in the world. They can already look at you and listen to you, send you warnings, and teleport on top of you while you sleep. All this where as the non magic user gets none of it... You also want them to be able to find anyone hiding at even a larger range. They already have (1200 miles + (level*50)) + (1000 miles + (level*50)) radius from their core area of effect. That is an diameter circle of 4600 miles at 1st level, and 8400 mile diameter circle at 20th level!