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Grim-N-Gritty
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System: Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e 
Abbreviation: GnG 
Author: Kenneth S. Hood 
Publisher: Diamond Thunderbolt Productions 
Item Code: DTP000001 
Publication Date: 2005 
Format: PDF 
Page Count: 50 
ISBN-10: None 
Price: $3.95
 
Product Blurb
Tired of players who lack fear of death and wade into the thick of battle without batting an eye? Want to add a sense of danger to your game? Do you want your monsters to be MONSTERS?

For years, the Grim-n-Gritty Hit Point and Combat Rules have provided a realism-based alternative to the standard cinematic combat rules of the world's most popular fantasy RPG. Now updated for use with the 3.5 edition rules, GnG 4.0 provides the following:

  • Alternative rules for figuring hit points based on the size of a creature, making massive monsters truly terrifying.
  • Injury penalties which hamper your character's performance as he suffers damage.
  • Armor that reduces damage, rather than lowering the chance to be hit in combat.
  • Opposed rolls for combat, using a Defense statistic.
  • A "Relative Degree" mechanic that replaces critical hits and increases the damage you inflict based on the success of your combat roll, rewarding skill rather than weapon selection.
  • Effect-based called shot rules.
  • Some support for psionic, modern, and future characters.
  • Epic-level rules.
  • Guidelines for adjusting a creature's CR based on its size.
  • A new action type and new defensive actions.
  • New automatic fire, suppressing fire, and energy weapon rules.
  • Over 50 new and revised feats for use with the system, including psionic, metapsionic, and metamagic feats.
  • Martial arts feats for nerve strikes, breaking strikes, and grappling.
  • Four new spells and three psionic powers.
  • New and revised magical and psionic items.
  • Suggestions for implementing the rules in a high-magic setting.
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Contents[edit]

Overview

Changes to Hit Points
Changes to Armor
Changes to Critical Hits
Changes to Actions
Other Changes

Where do these rules fit?

Good Fits
Bad Fits
Incredibly Bad Fits
A Warning about Magic

Combat Statistics

Attack Roll
Damage
Defense
Hit Points
Protection
Relative Degree (RD)

Actions in Combat

Action Types
Free Actions
Abort Actions

Effects of Damage

Trauma
Injury
Disabled, Dying, and Dead
Healing
Temporary Hit Points

Called Shots

Procedure
Effects
Recovery of Disabled Body Parts

Combat Modifiers

Favorable & Unfavorable Conditions
Helpless Defenders

Special Attacks

Accelerated Pair (Double Tap)
Automatic Fire (Burst)
Continuous Beam Fire
Grappling
Multiple-Fire Barrel
Scattershot
Suppressing Fire

Additional Combat Rules

Attacking Inanimate Objects
Energy Weapons
Sidearms and Longarms in Melee

Conditions
Appendix 1: Variant Rules

Advanced Wound Trauma
Wounds Normally Cause Bleeding

Appendix 2: Grim-N-Gritty High Magic
Appendix 3: Standard vs. Grim -N- Gritty Characters
Appendix 4: New and Revised Feats
Appendix 5: Spells and Powers
Appendix 6: Magical and Psionic Items
Simplified Rules

The Life Bar
Soak
Defense
Resolving Attacks
Healing and Recovery
Variant Rules



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Facts about "Grim-N-Gritty"
AbbreviationGnG +
AuthorKenneth S. Hood +
ISBNNone +
Item CodeDTP000001 +
Media TypePDF +
Page Count50 +
Publication Date2005 +
PublisherDiamond Thunderbolt Productions +
SummaryTired of players who lack fear of death and wade into the thick of battle without batting an eye? Want to add a sense of danger to your game? Do you want your monsters to be MONSTERS? +
SystemDungeons and Dragons 3.5e +
TitleGrim-N-Gritty +