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Originally posted by Diffan



I guess I'm of the mind-set that losing a limb is pretty rough, and if the player still wants to use and play that Character, he should be encouraged to do so. With heavy-handed penalties that completly shuts down anything he can do in combat or helping the group, there should be another way of contributing. Perhaps he goes Spellcaster full time? Perhaps they take on a quest to find a Regeneration spell or the Blood of a Troll, or a Master Artificer to craft an artifical limb or a Necromancer to zombie-graft an undead limb. Something should be in place for him to want to continue with the character despite the heavy loss of a body part.

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Originally posted by Diffan

Thanks Wooly and entreri.

Thinking more on using artifical limbs, they probably woudln't come as perfect solutions either. The necrotic-zombie/ghoul limb might possibly be still under control of the Necromancer. Imagine getting the new limb and going to another city. As the player walks up to the city guard, his hand reaches for his dagger and slits the guard's throat of it's own power (meanwhile the Necromancer is scrying the group and wielding the PCs limb like his own muhahahah ).

OR if it's an artifiical limb, perhaps it requires it's own powersouce that exhausts it's supply fairly quickly. This could be intereseting if the powersource is say....a gem of x amount of GP (maybe found only in dragon lairs), an opal found in the darkest places of the Underdark, or even a crystal/pearl found in the oceans that requires a second quest to find a consistant and reliable powersource for the mechanism.

Troll Blood and Regeneration are the easiest answers that can be the 1/shot and done answer. But perhaps the others might provide better quests or adventures to involve the PCs into. Suffice to say, use what you think best fits the situation. Might be that the artifical arm works for a while (a month or two of sessions) and when things quiet down or they find down-time, his arm starts going 'CRAZY' with spasms or gripping items until they crush or break or if you want to be really horrible, if he's preoccupied with a wench.....perhaps the session gets really violent but it's not his fault, it's his arms, lol.

SOOOO many possiblities.

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Originally posted by entreri3478

Sounds like this character is going to be in a world of hurt. I imagine that many spells require the use of 2 hands. I am not sure about the exact numbers but loosing an arm will dramatically decrease the strength and dexterity as well.

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Originally posted by Hawkins

I do not think that in game terms that it would effect his Strength or Dexterity Scores, but it would effect how many magical items he could wear (i.e. no longer can he wear paired bracers or gloves, and you might even limit him to one ring, though that is up to you) and would probably incur a -4 penalty on all Strength- and Dexterity-based skills.

As far as furthering his spellcasting abilities, I suggest you look at prestige classes that allow you to cast spells while holding an weapon in your hand. Or, he could take Improved Unarmed Strike and that way he is always armed but still has one hand free for casting spells with somatic components.

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Originally posted by Hawkins

I do not think that in game terms that it would effect his Strength or Dexterity Scores, but it would effect how many magical items he could wear (i.e. no longer can he wear paired bracers or gloves, and you might even limit him to one ring, though that is up to you) and would probably incur a -4 penalty on all Strength- and Dexterity-based skills.

As far as furthering his spellcasting abilities, I suggest you look at prestige classes that allow you to cast spells while holding an weapon in your hand. Or, he could take Improved Unarmed Strike and that way he is always armed but still has one hand free for casting spells with somatic components.

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Originally posted by Diffan

Thanks Wooly and entreri.

Thinking more on using artifical limbs, they probably woudln't come as perfect solutions either. The necrotic-zombie/ghoul limb might possibly be still under control of the Necromancer. Imagine getting the new limb and going to another city. As the player walks up to the city guard, his hand reaches for his dagger and slits the guard's throat of it's own power (meanwhile the Necromancer is scrying the group and wielding the PCs limb like his own muhahahah ).

OR if it's an artifiical limb, perhaps it requires it's own powersouce that exhausts it's supply fairly quickly. This could be intereseting if the powersource is say....a gem of x amount of GP (maybe found only in dragon lairs), an opal found in the darkest places of the Underdark, or even a crystal/pearl found in the oceans that requires a second quest to find a consistant and reliable powersource for the mechanism.

Troll Blood and Regeneration are the easiest answers that can be the 1/shot and done answer. But perhaps the others might provide better quests or adventures to involve the PCs into. Suffice to say, use what you think best fits the situation. Might be that the artifical arm works for a while (a month or two of sessions) and when things quiet down or they find down-time, his arm starts going 'CRAZY' with spasms or gripping items until they crush or break or if you want to be really horrible, if he's preoccupied with a wench.....perhaps the session gets really violent but it's not his fault, it's his arms, lol.

SOOOO many possiblities.

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Originally posted by Diffan

Thinking more on using artifical limbs, they probably woudln't come as perfect solutions either. The necrotic-zombie/ghoul limb might possibly be still under control of the Necromancer. Imagine getting the new limb and going to another city. As the player walks up to the city guard, his hand reaches for his dagger and slits the guard's throat of it's own power (meanwhile the Necromancer is scrying the group and wielding the PCs limb like his own muhahahah ).

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