Single demise save – you may or may not die instantly.  Also enjoyable variants the place you do not make the save till somebody checks on you.

Whatever the checks are (demise saves, medical assist, heal spell, and so forth.) having a variable time chart.  Maybe one thing like rapid, 1 minute, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, and so forth.  Check for “bleeding out” every interval on the chart.  If one thing would not kill you instantly, there’s time for somebody to do one thing.  If it would not kill you within the first 3 or 4 checks, there may be time on your associates to get you again to civilization.  I like this when the means are restricted and/or demise saves are considerably robust.  Reason being that if the percentages are appropriately robust, then verify each spherical or each minute is successfully a demise sentence in lots of conditions.  So if you’d like that, may as effectively simply set the percentages low of surviving as a substitute of dragging it out.

A method to have the situations have an effect on the therapeutic.  I give boosts when characters have acceptable garments, aren’t sporting armor in dangerous situations, are clear, dry, have the eye of a devoted healer, and so forth.  Or give penalties when it goes too far the opposite approach.  Down within the dungeon with little meals, no heat, and so forth. you may “bleed out” as a result of despite the fact that you bought bandaged, the setting is simply too terrible so that you can make it.  Gives a powerful purpose to arrange a safe base camp close to the place the motion is happening, however not so shut that it will not be safe once you retreat to it.

Last week I had a recreation session with some gamers new to this fashion.  Starting characters had been poor, and the sport was set in early winter (earlier than it will get too dangerous).  First outing, a pair nearly died.  They tried to camp and heal.  I defined that given a few of them solely had sandals and ragged tunics for garments, and incomplete armor that wasn’t a lot assist, the one approach they may heal in any respect was to have considered one of their healers make a reasonably tough verify to look after them, nevertheless it was sluggish.  If the climate turned worse, even that restricted therapeutic would disappear.  They tried that for two days, then ran for an remoted inn a day away.  Second outing?  They moved heaven and earth with their funds and barter some outdated weapons they discovered to get cloaks and footwear. Mission completed.