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<blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6475296" data-attributes="member: 82779"><p>First off, awesome. It's always cool to see quotes from the older texts.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, all those quotes say is "damage is measured in HPs and arises from potentially harmful situations." Nowhere does it state that HP loss must include any meat damage, nor also does it state the amount of a character's HPs that must correlate to meat damage.</p><p></p><p>And that's a good thing because it allows DMs a greater range of flexibility in how they want to describe the effects of things in game. If a DM wants to say an arrow attack that does six damage is an arrow through the leg, a cut on the side of the leg, a simple gouge in the armor, the energy spent avoiding or deflecting the arrow, or some kind of divine grace that stops the shot she can.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Note: I've cut the bulk of the definition because that part relates only to limits of resurrection, and I've corrected your spelling mistake.</p><p></p><p>I'm sort of perplexed by the posting of this quote. I don't think anyone is arguing that the Constitution score is not as described in what remains of the quote. Of course, there is no reason why someone couldn't see the fitness aspect of Constitution's contribution to HPs as being the fitness required to continue to protect oneself in combat. At some point, after deflecting and evading blows left and right one will eventually succumb to fatigue and be unable to parry or evade when it counts. It's an interpretation that is equally as valid as the meat contribution perspective.</p><p></p><p>Again, it all comes down to the range of narrative descriptions that a DM is comfortable with using.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MechaPilot, post: 6475296, member: 82779"] First off, awesome. It's always cool to see quotes from the older texts. Secondly, all those quotes say is "damage is measured in HPs and arises from potentially harmful situations." Nowhere does it state that HP loss must include any meat damage, nor also does it state the amount of a character's HPs that must correlate to meat damage. And that's a good thing because it allows DMs a greater range of flexibility in how they want to describe the effects of things in game. If a DM wants to say an arrow attack that does six damage is an arrow through the leg, a cut on the side of the leg, a simple gouge in the armor, the energy spent avoiding or deflecting the arrow, or some kind of divine grace that stops the shot she can. Note: I've cut the bulk of the definition because that part relates only to limits of resurrection, and I've corrected your spelling mistake. I'm sort of perplexed by the posting of this quote. I don't think anyone is arguing that the Constitution score is not as described in what remains of the quote. Of course, there is no reason why someone couldn't see the fitness aspect of Constitution's contribution to HPs as being the fitness required to continue to protect oneself in combat. At some point, after deflecting and evading blows left and right one will eventually succumb to fatigue and be unable to parry or evade when it counts. It's an interpretation that is equally as valid as the meat contribution perspective. Again, it all comes down to the range of narrative descriptions that a DM is comfortable with using. [/QUOTE]
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