Pressure Point Trick Question / Ruling

[Azoun The Sage]

The trick in question:

Pressure Points* (Su): A ninja with this trick can strike at an opponent's vital pressure points, causing weakness and intense pain. Whenever the ninja deals sneak attack damage, she also deals 1 point of Strength or Dexterity damage, decided by the ninja. Unlike normal ability damage, this damage can be healed by a DC 15 Heal check. Each successful check heals 1 point of damage caused by this trick. A ninja with this trick receives a +10 insight bonus on this Heal check.

Does this damage stack? If so it seems a little OP to me, in that this is available at a low level; which is pretty nasty.

I probably wouldn't have much of an issue with this trick if it had a save; say 10 + 1/2 ninja (rogue) lvl + ability mod (Dex in this case). This solution I just may do for my own group who are on board with it as we've discussed it.

If a heal check removes this damage then does a Cure type spell as well? Would it heal more than one point if the damage stacks?

Has anyone else used this in a campaign? How did it work out? Am I not reading it correctly?

As I said before i've already discussed this with my group; but I want to reach out to the community and see what everyone else is doing or has done.

[Oterisk]

Ah, the Rogue/Ninja doesn't have much, let em have this one thing.

Kidding aside--- while nice, this ability isn't overpowered. If you consider that it would normally take 10 or so hits to actually stop somebody with this, otherwise its a minor debuff. One that is easily surpassed by other classes. Sure, maybe not in conjunction with damage but it isn't that bad.

[Julix]

I'm worried about bugging my GM by having her recalculate all the stats every couple rounds... but the idea of lowering the enemies AC by 1 / round (if both of my attacks hit) seems sweet, especially for single Big Mean Bad Guys...

Haha, I just imagined a party of 4 TWF with this ability, all flanking, thus sneak attacking, thus doing up to 8 stat dmg/round, if they all hit. A few rounds, most things would be dead or non-moving from attribute damage.

Would also synergize nicely with the Shadowdancer's pet who does strength damage...

[BigNorseWolf]

Julix wrote:

Haha, I just imagined a party of 4 TWF with this ability, all flanking, thus sneak attacking, thus doing up to 8 stat dmg/round

A tengu ninja with the claw claw beak combo is pretty nasty with this.