OK, a conversation over on the MHG forums, about some possible changes in 3.0, got me thinking, and after reading over a couple of suggestions, I "borrowed" (Hey, good GMs only steal from the best), a couple of ideas, and came up with this.

Optional Stun Rule – Any character that takes more than their full Endurance score in damage, from a single attack, must make an Endurance save (d20) to avoid being stunned. If the character fails to make his save, then the character is stunned for one turn. While stunned, the character may only take one action per turn, being the last person to act that turn (if more than one character is stunned the one with the higher END score moves first). In addition all attacks are made at -4, and all movement rates are halved.

How’s that sound? 

Paul wrote on Apr 20^th, 2011 at 9:49am:


I'm not sure how much damage you guys dish out, but if you look at the damage done by characters in most of the published material (where the most damage you're going to do is 1d20), it would only come up if a character took more than 9 or 10 points of damage from a single attack. The actual save would be on a d20, so it would make sense that someone with a high END would be able to shrug off.

Ok yeah our game dishes out a lot more damage than that. I do 10 points of damage to someone just when I show up.

Assuming they aren't knocked out, yeah that makes sense.

Paul wrote on Apr 20^th, 2011 at 3:02pm:


LOL - this reminds me of those Dos Equis commercials with 'the Most Interesting Man in the World'.

One of the sayings they do is that "he's won trophies for his game face alone".   

THE ONI wrote on Apr 20^th, 2011 at 8:13pm:




What's the "average" amount of damage you guys are dishing out?

So would you say the average is something like 30-50 points?  Our group's pretty high powered and I think the damages usually done by heroes are around 20.  When an NPC does 30+ it's a massive hit!

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Imagine him but only uglier and you get me! 

So yeah with multiple attacks you are talking about a lot of average damage. But to Oni's point, there are a group of super weak characters and a group of super powerful ones plus Oni's characters  so your rule would apply nicely to the weak ones.

Bumping this up, as I would really like to see some feedback on it, if it's used in a game.

Ironnerd wrote on Oct 16^th, 2013 at 12:20pm:


Actually a character with a 10 END, who took more than 10 points damage from a single attack, would have 90% of being stunned, a character with a 20 END, who took more than 10 points damage from a single attack, would have have an 80%, chance, etc.

Yeah, acting as theough they were Fatigued would work as well.

I'd also like to see how option 2 works out. As the character's hit points drop, he'd be easier to stun.

I was figuring all that on the 1d20 saving roll. Thus making 10 or less on 1d20 is 50%.

Looks like this is a save vs 1d100. Completely acceptable, I just normally default to d20 saves.