If there are multiple limbs it would cause a flood of colored spam. My apologies, I thought that was fairly obvious. If tentacles 1-10 came flying off there would be a quarter or half of one combat round inundated with color. If there were cripples to those same limbs and cripples were colored then you get a lot of color. Your still talking about limited amount of color in combat IMO. But in so far as trying to get more of a group conscious on the matter and not trying to go over board; the idea of keeping the colors to IKs instead of severs seems to be a better idea.