Bonus Damage and Critical Hits
For critical hits, bonus damage dice (such as a flaming sword or a rogue’s sneak attack or a weapon readied against a charge or a lance on a charge) deal only 1 point per additional die to wound points. (Such attacks deal normal damage to vitality points.)

Environmental Damage
Environmental damage does wound point damage, like acid, avalanches, cave-ins and collapses, dust storms, falling, falling objects, hail, heat damage, lava, lightning and natural fire. Any environmental damage that does nonlethal damage does vitality point damage. If a saving throw is allowed, on success, 1 point per die of damage is wound point damage and the remaining damage is vitality point damage. This does not include spell effects that mimic environmental damage.

Nonlethal Damage
This system doesn’t differentiate between lethal and nonlethal damage for attacks that reduce vitality points. Attacks and effects that normally deal nonlethal damage reduce vitality points, except on a critical hit, in which case they reduce wound points. If wound points are reduced to 0 by nonlethal damage, the possible states are staggered and unconscious.

0 Wound Points
Wound points cannot drop below 0; any damage that would cause a character’s wound point total to drop below 0 simply causes the character to have 0 wound points.
At 0 wound points, a character is disabled (or staggered if wound points are reduced to 0 by nonlethal damage) and exhausted and must immediately attempt a DC 15 + 2 per 10 points of damage dealt beyond 0 Fortitude save. If he succeeds on the save, he is merely disabled. If he fails, he falls unconscious and if the damage was lethal, begins dying. The creature’s initiative changes to immediately after the opponent that struck the blow that brought wound points to 0.

Spells
Spells function as listed and do damage as normal and are deducted from vitality points first. However, with a confirmed critical hit on a touch attack spell, the damage is deducted from wound points, just like any other critical. On a spell that requires a saving throw, on a natural 1, damage is deducted from wound points.

Regenerating Creatures
Certain damage types that may affect a regenerating creature work just like any other attack with the exception that once vitality points have been depleted or on a critical hit, these attacks deal wound damage.

instead of crits automaticly going to wounds, I use a versions of the massive damage rule, any dmg that exceeds a characters dmg threshold(I liek to use con score for this), goes to wounds.

means massively damaging attacks still go to wounds, which are usually crits any way.

Non-Named NPCs have only Wounds and tend to go down fairly quickly, … except that a Warrior 7 is still going to hit hard and might have a great AC … if he is hit he receives Wounds and goes down. I can send those that request it my version … abraxus999 (at) hot^mail (dot) com

1. Venomous creatures and poison. Do you advise increasing the crit range for venomous critters, or should one increase the damage from the payload, or a combination of both…
2. Knocking someone unconscious. There are no rules for subdual or knocking someone out rather than whittling away at their vitality.

Well, I thought I had more issues. But I guess getting some insight into these would suffice for now.

CJ