Half Move and Dodge at 1/3 HP: Realism of sudden drop?

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

Then again, there's a reason we train to incapacitate people by the simple expedience of twist/breaking one of their fingers.

For certain values of 'incapacitate', sure. Most people are highly reluctant to have their fingers broken, but it's not very hard to ignore when something else more important is going on.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Anthony

For certain values of 'incapacitate', sure. Most people are highly reluctant to have their fingers broken, but it's not very hard to ignore when something else more important is going on.

It's always fun to find out who faints dead away when they get their finger broken. *grin*

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

It's always fun to find out who faints dead away when they get their finger broken. *grin*

Just because a few people massively overreact to injury doesn't equate to such a matter of fact statement of finger breaking causing incapacitation.
Otherwise, you could say I could incapacitate someone by destroying their property because some people, one I personally witnessed, will go catatonic when such items are believed destroyed.

[Lord Carnifex]

Originally Posted by Anthony

For certain values of 'incapacitate', sure. Most people are highly reluctant to have their fingers broken, but it's not very hard to ignore when something else more important is going on.

Witness the number of highly aggressive gridiron players who just tape the broken finger to a working finger and then go back to the game a couple of plays later.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Lord Carnifex

Witness the number of highly aggressive gridiron players who just tape the broken finger to a working finger and then go back to the game a couple of plays later.

It's the high school wrestler that continued despite a destroyed testicle that makes we wince the hardest.

[Tyneras]

Ze'Manel Cunha sounds like he is describing either someone with Low Pain Threshold, or someone who failed a fright check. It's pretty easy to fail by 1 and still get the "faint" result.

[Anthony]

Awareness of being injured is a big factor in whether an injury actually affects you; this is why being drugged or drunk makes one harder to disable. Adrenaline is also a factor. The threat of having your finger broken is probably far more effective than the actual breaking of the finger, at least on the short term.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Tyneras

Ze'Manel Cunha sounds like he is describing either someone with Low Pain Threshold, or someone who failed a fright check. It's pretty easy to fail by 1 and still get the "faint" result.

Crippled extremities trigger a knockdown check, don't they? Failing that and being physically stunned is somewhat incapacitating, and failing it hard leaves you unconscious.

[safisher]

Hypovolemic shock, probably. That's one reason that HP's "heal" so quickly from treating shock.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Crippled extremities trigger a knockdown check, don't they? Failing that and being physically stunned is somewhat incapacitating, and failing it hard leaves you unconscious.

That should probably be limb crippling, not any extremity.
There is no physical stunning. Stunning is a mental condition, unless you mean something like a stun gun physically stopping your muscles from working.