Forlorn Realms

When the Darkness fell, the world became an unforgiving place.

Table of Contents

• Health: Battle HP
• Dealing Damage
• Negative HP
• Regaining Hit Points and Resting
• Crafting
• Skill Checks

Health: Battle HP

"Stronger!? Better!? But not unbreakable!" - Even the most cherished Heroes may find their demise in a straight arrow.

• Heroes and Monsters do not become infinitely strong. Their endurance is severely limited.
• When leveling, roll and calculate your character's Max HP as usual, so the character stays compatible to other campaigns.
• But instead of the Max HP, use the new Battle HP for every creature roaming the battlefield:

Quick Lookup Table

Temporary Hit Points

Dealing Damage

"Diss swing wif mei soad will nat krasch a mauntn... but it will fell evriding schoat off a tri."

Damage is slightly reduced. But in the end, everything's more lethal now.

General Rules:

1. Only rolled values count. Do NOT add any fixed boni (like STR or DEX, magical enhancements etc) to the damage of an attack.
2. When a class skill or a feat gives you bonus damage, halve it.
3. Halving is rounding down, but never rounded down to 0. 1 will stay 1.

Examples:

• The bonus of Power Attack (Great Weapon Master) is reduced to +5.
• Features like Two-Weapon Fighting would become useless, so they gain a new function.
  • Two-Weapon Fighting now earns you the Feat Dual Wielder instead.
  • (list to be extended)

Class Specific Examples:

• Barbarian: Rage damage boost will be halved.
• Rogue: Sneak Attack damage is halved.

Negative HP

"Damn! It still bleeds!"

• Keep track of negative HP.
• You also have to heal negative HP.
• At zero or less HP, you are unconscious.

Regaining Hit Points and Resting

"Just let me catch my breath..."

Expending a Hit Die

• Expending a Hit Die to regain health is a Full Round Action and thus also possible during combat.
• During your Full Round Action, you cannot act, react or move until the start of your next turn, and grant advantage to any attacker.
• At the start of your next turn, before any other effects, you will regain Hit Points and strike off one Hit Die
• You can still make use of all your passive and background abilities, like watching, listening, speaking etc.
• You can choose to interrupt this specific Full Round Action at any time:
  • returning your reaction
  • no langer granting advantage to your enemies
  • you will not regain any Hit Points
  • you will not lose a Hit Die.

Long Rests

• Long rests will restore spent Hit Dice euqal to your character level.
• They will not restore lost Hit Points automatically.
• You can expend your available Hit Dice at any time during the rest.
• For each full uninterrupted hour of sleep, you will regain about one sixth of your Hit Dice, also depending on your comfort.
• After six hours of sleep, you lose one level of Exhaustion.
• This table is just an example for a normal comfort level (Survival DC 13):

  Level	After hour
  	1	2	3	4	5	6
  1						1
  2			1			1
  3		1		1	1	1
  4		1		1		1
  5		1	1	1	1	1
  6	1	1	1	1	1	1
  7	1	1	1	1	1	2
  8	1	1	2	1	1	2

Short Rests

• Short rests still require you to hunker down for an hour of uninterrupted peace and quiet.

Crafting

"I have this little side project I should tell you about..."

Crafting is now less time-consuming

• Instead of the normal eight hours, you can accomplish your daily task on a quiet evening.
• If one or more persons aid you in your effort, you can even accomplish two days' worth of work in one evening.
• Any other prerequisites to crafting still apply.
• Remember though: You might make more noise than is healthy for you.

Skill Checks

"This is so easy, no one could even... Wait! What just happened!?"