WOUNDS AND VITALITY:  We’ve already kind of agreed to use Wounds and Vitality like the first version D20 Star Wars.  I like this system rather a lot and almost wish we’d use it in 3.5.  For those of you who don’t know it, you have Wounds, which are equal to your CON score, and Vitality, which are usually called Hit Points.  You don’t lose Wounds until you are out of Vitality – Unless you take a Crit, which goes straight to Wounds.  (Note – I may have those backwards, so forgive me if I do, I’m in a terrible rush to post this).

SEVERITY CHART:  A ‘Severity Chart’ on a D100 has been suggested – you take a Crit and roll a D100.  You can get effects from this chart – leg hit, lose a little move, arm hit, minus to attacks, lung hit, instant kill, whatever.

MORE CRITS:  Increasing (doubling) the gun Crit Range has also been suggested.  I’m OK with this too – it might not even be enough as ALL D20M Firearms only crit on a 20.  I think most firearms should Crit on a 19-20 with some firearms – like Barret .50 sniper rifles, .577 Nitro Express elephant guns, and other uber-powerful weapons (like, oh, the 25mm Bushmaster Autocannon on a Bradley) critting on an 18 or even lower.

WEAR ARMOR:  Suggested that Armor reduce crit threat range, give a save vs Crits, or something, the better the heavier the body armor is.  Cause after all, armor is covering vital spots.

I’d like to toss out two newish ideas:

HEROIC CRITS:  The GM in question likes some heroic element to survive in his games.  It occurred to me that we could just use Action Points in a new way not covered in the current rules – allow the player to expend an action point to INCREASE HIS CRIT RANGE by D6 points.  I’d let ‘em do it after the roll, and let ‘em expend more than one at a time, so a desperate character could get off that last heroic shot at the charging elephant with their .577 Nitro.

LEVEL DAMAGE:  What if you added your level in D6′s to your firearm damage?  You’re a better shot after all.  What if you added your Base Attack Bonus to the Crit Range?  You’re a better shot, after all.  Either?  Both?

Final Note – we’re still brainstorming, not judging the ideas just yet.  So if you’ve got suggestions, feel free to comment.  I’m sure once we’ve blogged it a bit, we’ll start winnowing down the changes to what we think works.