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Supernatural resilience. My current 5e narration is that "classes" are universal (multiversal?) archetypes that exist within the...

For sure. My current, more supernatural, approach was based on taking the 5e rules around injury and dying, and classes and levels, as...

Sure, although generally only when we’ve obviously switched into an OOC meta channel discussion.

This part of the conversation is with me, not Micah. And while Micah indeed does not like too much PC/NPC separation, even he has said...

But presumably the players communicate their remaining hp to one another? As part of the rationing of healing resources, making choices...

Some of the absolute best "roleplaying" I've seen in a TTRPG came when we started a session of Stonetop and I was like "hey Nik, do you...

Robin Laws gives good advice on this in one of the original HeroWars rulebooks (it might be in the Narrator Book, but maybe it's in the...

I mean, I don't know anyone (not even myself!) who actually communicates the number of hit points a character has within the fiction...

As I posted: In my experience, players use the numerical/mathematical information that their PCs' remaining hp give them all the time...

That's my general go-to, but I do like narrating a good, visceral hit on occasion as well. But again, I've alleviated this by simply...

is it though, or do you need to handwave a lot away because there simply is no good in-world explanation. Not sure what the game you...

In support of that viewpoint: I was just reading the quickstart for Nimble, which is 5e derived/adjacent, and in their model once you...

Earthdawn.

Yeah, honestly, I tend to think that if you want a measured damage model (i.e. one that buffers a sudden death/takeout result)...

Ah. I already play a lot of that game. The GM is a PITA and won't let us do anything cool. The 1:1 scale map they made of the game...