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Alemander 03-30-04, 08:49 PM	I am looking for opinions on how to use the Vow of Peace and Vow of Non-violence from the Book of Exalted Deeds, which only allow the character who takes those vows to do non-lethal damage. With Wounds/Vitality points, there is of course no non-lethal damage anymore, so said character would never again be able to attack or even defend themselves. I am just looking for some opinions and ideas here. Would you say tough and not make any kind of changes to the feats or the Wound/Vitality point system, and the character would just never be able to attack again? If not, what kind of suggestions do have to make these feats more integratable into the Wound/Vitality point systems? Thanks. Alemander
Robbo 03-31-04, 02:30 AM	I don't understand that throw-away comment about non-lethal damage in Unearthed Arcana. It surely still has a place. Vitality points lost are not physical damage it is true, but any normal attack has a chance to cause wound damage via a critical hit, or just through reducing vitality to zero. I would continue to allow anyone to use non-lethal attacks - treat them as causing vitality damage until zero, then seperately record additional non-lethal damage until equal to wound points (in the same way as you would count them against hit points under the core rules). I don't see this as a big deal, just a mistake in the rules. Unless anyone else sees some unacceptable side-effect?