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Why would they do that? You can't heal a wound with boom boxes and motivational posters, that's silly.:confused:

Because his injury in D&D would not be represented by loss of HP, it wasn't caused by an attack, and even if it was so, there are no rules in D&D for disabling injuries unless it's from a specific ability or power. The close to that condition would be stat loss, or some effect of a specific disease.

You only really need "HP as moral" when you have non-magical healing abilites that work by "increasing morale", like Warlord powers from 4E, or if you just want to. If a nick of a sword deals Damage, some of that damage may be loss of morale, even if a very little loss of morale.

Because loss of morale may be represented by loss of HP when it is part of the Damage your character suffers from a hit, or attack or some type of physical harm. Your king dying in battle is not a physical harm to your character. He may suffer some loss of morale but that specific loss would...

Hit points loss = HP loss doesn't represent the physical harm itself, only its effects on the character's capacity to keep standing and functioning. These negative effects are called Damage, which is an abstract concept in the game. Damage: All the effects a character endures from a physical...

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Ok. Well, I do interpret that all damage is caused exclusively by some physical harm, but not all damage is a physical harm. I think the combat system feels a little more "realistic" that way, and also easier to handle.

You won't have Schrodinger's HP at all with shouty-healings and full overnight rests, or any other non-magical healing, if you disassociate damage from wound. HP loss represents damage, not wounds. HP gain represents the mitigation of damage, not the undoing of injuries.

A wound is a wound, in the game as it is in RL. Hit Points don't represent wounds, they represent the amount of hits your character can take and keep standing. When your character is hit, he is hit. Being hit means taking damage. It is always a physical hit (or a mental hit in the case of some...

Common sense is also a rule in RPGs.

I always thought M:tG to be already a lot like D&D's Vancian system. You have a deck of cards you have access to (Spellbook), but you can only cast from a limited amount that you draw to your hand (memorization) and when you cast a version of a spell it goes to the graveyard and you can't cast...

Ok Claudio, my opinion is wrong... It's anime. The giant sword is anime. The hair cut is anime. It's barbarian D&D-esque version of Cloud from FF7. Same sword, same hair, same stance. As the OP says. I hope this isn't 5E.

Anime.

That's a classic example of rules that are cold and are about the pure mechanics of the game, they are not responsable for the idiosyncratic results of their use. You could create a wizard character and tell the DM he just woke up one day and decided to become a magic user, the next day he was...

If it is really magical, let me check'em.

But it has always being the hard way. Magic-users need to spend years of study to learn how to cast spells, and constant focus on their arcane studies during their career to become a successful wizard. They need the spellbook that requires special inks and that means of alot of investments in...

Other: Ancient Monte's idea of having 20 levels of spells.

I don't remember any pure fighter character in the Dying Earth series.:angel:

Me neither. What about you can do whatever you want as a fighter? Player describes it to DM, DM assigns a penalty/drawback and define the effect if player succeeds, player rolls.

Higher level characters could simply get an extra d20 roll in case of failure. It's a "hidden" bonus that only comes into play when needed. Usually extra rolls are bad but since it's a very simple system math-wise, it could work. Also, quickly rolling again the same dice, for the same result...