pming
Legend
Hiya!
Oh absolutely. But, it's D&D. I chalk up the 'lack of pain' as just one of the "realities" of the multiverse...sort of like how shooting a propane tank or a car (pretty much anywhere) in any action movie has said target explode into a massive, impressive, fire-ball. So folks in a D&D campaign world have the same sort of 'physics' applied to them; they can take multiple 8-pound mace hits to the abdomen, chest, face and head and have no effects actually 'apply' unless a nebulous "hit point pool" is depleted. Doesn't make sense, but it's the physics of the world.
Personally I don't mind the abstract 'physics' in a fantasy game, but what I miss in them is psychological effects...some games have stats like "Cool", "Sanity", or "Madness". Kinda like HP's, but for your mind...and these are usually defined at various 'levels of' equated to some level of psychosis. ("SAN of 100 is the most stable person in the world; SAN of 1 is almost a totally, permanently insane person").
^_^
Paul L. Ming
More than that. Let's not forget that claw slashes across your chest and bites to your shoulder HURT. A LOT!! D&D sort of glosses over the pain factor (and it should). But let's not forget that these adventurers, even if they do not die, are suffering horrendous amounts of pain. Mind numbing, soul crushing amounts of it.
Oh absolutely. But, it's D&D. I chalk up the 'lack of pain' as just one of the "realities" of the multiverse...sort of like how shooting a propane tank or a car (pretty much anywhere) in any action movie has said target explode into a massive, impressive, fire-ball. So folks in a D&D campaign world have the same sort of 'physics' applied to them; they can take multiple 8-pound mace hits to the abdomen, chest, face and head and have no effects actually 'apply' unless a nebulous "hit point pool" is depleted. Doesn't make sense, but it's the physics of the world.
Personally I don't mind the abstract 'physics' in a fantasy game, but what I miss in them is psychological effects...some games have stats like "Cool", "Sanity", or "Madness". Kinda like HP's, but for your mind...and these are usually defined at various 'levels of' equated to some level of psychosis. ("SAN of 100 is the most stable person in the world; SAN of 1 is almost a totally, permanently insane person").
^_^
Paul L. Ming