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<blockquote data-quote="GrahamWills" data-source="post: 8100328" data-attributes="member: 75787"><p>So ... a commoner has d8 hit points in AD&D. 3 hit points is therefore a very reasonable number to expect to have. If a commoner with three hit points takes an arrow doing 3 hit points they drop unconscious and have about a 50-50 chance of dying if unaided.</p><p></p><p>So clearly 3 hit points of hit points that are "perfectly consistent with meat points" is a likely-fatal wound. One that would realistically take weeks or probably months to recover from, if at all. Most likely IRL you'd have a wound that would last forever.</p><p></p><p>So yes, unrealistic to assume an hour nap completely cures it. Also unrealistic to assume a day's nap does. Both AD&D and 5E are unrealistic vis-a-vis hit points.</p><p></p><p>As a slight aside, in Fate, a wound that is not quite fatal would be a <em>severe</em> consequence, which will stay around until the end of the scenario. Now that's a pretty variable amount of time, but it's meant to be 3-4 sessions, and so is likely to be at least several days, if not weeks, even in a pretty fast-paced game. Thinking about the Ages of Ashes PF2 game I'm playing, you'd only get to cure it at the end of each book, so you'd only get to recover from this level of damage 5 times in your entire 1-20 career. This really highlights that you cannot have a realistic damage system with just hit/stress points. You need a separate wound track also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrahamWills, post: 8100328, member: 75787"] So ... a commoner has d8 hit points in AD&D. 3 hit points is therefore a very reasonable number to expect to have. If a commoner with three hit points takes an arrow doing 3 hit points they drop unconscious and have about a 50-50 chance of dying if unaided. So clearly 3 hit points of hit points that are "perfectly consistent with meat points" is a likely-fatal wound. One that would realistically take weeks or probably months to recover from, if at all. Most likely IRL you'd have a wound that would last forever. So yes, unrealistic to assume an hour nap completely cures it. Also unrealistic to assume a day's nap does. Both AD&D and 5E are unrealistic vis-a-vis hit points. As a slight aside, in Fate, a wound that is not quite fatal would be a [I]severe[/I] consequence, which will stay around until the end of the scenario. Now that's a pretty variable amount of time, but it's meant to be 3-4 sessions, and so is likely to be at least several days, if not weeks, even in a pretty fast-paced game. Thinking about the Ages of Ashes PF2 game I'm playing, you'd only get to cure it at the end of each book, so you'd only get to recover from this level of damage 5 times in your entire 1-20 career. This really highlights that you cannot have a realistic damage system with just hit/stress points. You need a separate wound track also. [/QUOTE]
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