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You can argue quite well that this is essentially already what goes on - the PC is hit by a sword, which will normally kill or maim...

In the same way that overland travel, time spend socialising and so on do not happen in initiative order, we just recognise that the...

Yes, absolutely - and that narratively powerful entities would often still be modeled with a single hitpoint Oh, my 1st level commoner...

Which patron mechanics specifically?

Right, the alternative way to look at this is that most things should be minions and that having hit points is the unusual factor. Take...

Given I'm specifically talking about hit points here, that's kind of a nonsensical ask. The whole point with talking mooks is mostly...

I'm interested - let's say I come up with a new class, in which I splice the Sorcerer's narrative (which is barely linked to it's...

While I think your overall point is fine, it's worth considering confounding factors with this - a typical MMO player will probably be...

I think it could be done with 3e era psionics, something like this

I think that's basically the point - a TPK doesn't have to kill a campaign - there are lots of plausible outs for this that let a game...

Generally true, but it's still often worth thinking about how you could have done things better.

The general case of this appears to be pretty straight forward - we are having fun with friends, but some mistake leads to us having...

Could you give an example of one of these? I'd be very interested in a worked example of the kind of thing that handles this well

It was always my favorite Narnia story, by far.

Good insight. I never thought of it that way but yes, each of the books could quite well be thought of as different campaigns set in the...