Crippling and amputating, are there rules?


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I've been looking around for a while and I have not found rules for what happens measurably when you lose the use of an arm, or a leg, or an eye for that matter. I imagine it being something like (-4 to all tasks that require the use of hands, -10 to your base speed, or -4 to perception), but I'd love to know if there are official rules about this.

Also, does magical healing like channel energy reset the bone if its broken? If they heal without resetting, then the bone sets sideways and that causes major issues.

On the topic of broken bones, would there be a combat maneuver for that? obviously it would be OP as a normal combat maneuver, but it should be something mentioned in the mechanics somewhere. Like coup-de-grace.

The reason I ask is because an NPC in my game breaks his leg before a big rodeo competition and can't attend because of it. If a cleric comes in with his magic healing, there goes my plot device.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

There is two 3pp books for Pathfinder that I know of that talk about things like this.

Grand Lodge

Dark_Mistress wrote:
There is two 3pp books for Pathfinder that I know of that talk about things like this.

The 3PP "The Book of Distinctions & Drawbacks" by cryptosnark games (available HERE on PDF) has some information about these things...

-That One Digitalelf Fellow-


Much thanks to both of you. I'll be sure to use these.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Ok thats three books then. The two i was thinking of was Torn Asunder and Strategists & Tacticians

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