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without wounding penalties or lingering effects of damage,5e (and typically D&D in general) really stops short of the narrative potent that damage could reflect in the game. of course homebrew is there to cover for that if people want it to but there's a lot of potential for what these things...

Errata 3 -added the overwhelmed condition, a condition where a characters ac decreases as they are surrounded by enemies and the effectiveness of their guard against attack diminishes. -changed the function of opportunity attack to account for the increased threat of being surrounded in combat

fair enough, i think now if i remember it correctly i said something similar about necrotic damage in my thesis about killing cells in the body, that could still be a representation of damage to the soul but just in those areas, or it could be something like adding negative energy to the body in...

correct, however that would be the idea that hitpoints as duribility when being impacted with physical damage is a representation realistic durability. ive admitted since the moment i began talking about the idea of supernatural durability thus far that it isint realistic, i can try to come up...

i think necrotic and psychic damage in 5e might be the only 2 instances in the entire game where damage argues with my personal interpretation of hitpoints. radiant is close but its also considered to still act like a burn to living tissue. necrotic is damage to the soul, psychic is damage to...

your arguing the definition of abstract inproperly because an abstract by definition is a representation of a group of specific things and expanded into a broader catagory for use in conversation about what they represent for the purpose of that abstract. for example a polystirine soccer ball...

pemertons source might be poor but his logic is sound, how about wikipedia? Abstraction - Wikipedia or is this going to be one of those arguments where the source is never good until it agrees with you? ill be surprised though if anyone can find a definition that really changes the argument...

you might disagree but hes not wrong, pemerton is describing how hitpoints as pure durability can still be considered an abstract because pure durability is an abstraction of all the physical qualities of a living thing's body which can resist physical injury. a medical doctor would very much...

what hitpoints are is an abstraction, what is hitpoints an abstraction of? stuff, the game says what its an abstraction of but does not give the quantities and i think we also have the right to inject our own qualities as well if we want to considering the only other stats in the entire game...

my completely interpretive abstraction that can mean literally anything i want it to mean in order to shape a creative narrative in the middle of playing the game is supernatural durability 100% of the time. if you dont like that, then play with your own completely interpretive abstraction that...

i havent read many of the ideas brought up here so i dont know if this has been mentioned, but i wouldn't radically change the way D&D is, maybe radically changing it is the best option, 5e was a departure from 4e, and 4 from 3, but im mostly just going to focus on a problem that i think D&D has...

how many times do i have to say i agree with hp as a completely interpretive abstraction that can mean literally anything you want it to mean in order to shape a creative narrative in the middle of playing the game? an improve tool? must i tattoo it to my forhead?

wait until this guy knows i made fun of myself and actually put "hp is an abstraction" in the role of the truth in the meme

yeah i ment it as a bit of a joke, especially considering i put my own interpretation into one of the unflattering roles in the meme, but if no one gets it then it doesent make much sense i agree. also while i like a lot of stuff (especially music) thats exceptionally older than i am, i am like...

1. i dont have the right, i know that, ill still pose what i think you should do in order to argue against my entire point instead of just peaces of it. 2. i have not ignored any rebuttal to my statements, but my rebuttals to those rebuttals can be ignored or forgotten at times, like the one...

you might not be familiar with the meme, but the meme is that these 2 characters dress up as another character when he is having a realestate agent come to his home so that he can sell it and move away from these 2. (i dont remember their reason for dressing up as him though) anyway they...

how is weapons hit you and thus it deals damage unrealistic? thats what happens in reality, it doesent matter if the fact that the proportions change in the game in an unrealistic way. all of the properties of weapons and other forms of damage in the game reflect the idea of them being able to...

lol look at this duuude. man i wonder if the universe you live in is as awesome as mine. some day youll be able to write a retort to a statement i make frog where you dont have to appeal to everyone else in the conversation in order to check if they have your back on what you say. you've been...