Manbearcat
Legend
To each his own. I've tried various health track/vp systems, but in my current homebrew I have something very much like hit points and when I play Pathfinder, I use the baseline hp rules found there. And that's after 34 years of Player/DM experience.
Oh I wasn't speaking for myself personally. I'm fine with HPs. That is just my experience with ardent process sim players over the years. Accordingly, the idea of the Warlord as fundamental to making the HP as meat lobby twitch doesn't comport with my experience with ardent process sim players, nor with my own reasoning. The premise itself is problematic, thus the earnest search for, and exultation at discovery of, an internally consistent life ablation scheme.
Once upon a time I was pretty hardcore process sim > hated HPs > lost interest in process sim > found HPs agreeable again.