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Okay, Danny. Let's flip this around a bit. We know that 1hp is bad territory for a 3e character, because of non-lethal HP. I still don't see that this differs from being not in shape, but it is a form of impediment. But what of the Fighter at 5 of 100hp? Alone in the woods, in 3e, he's only...

I think you mean, "Large chunks of 4e aren't simulation mechanics." The mechanics work within a roleplaying game just fine. They just don't, on their own, tell you what exactly the narrative is(I don't hold that pre-4e HP did this, either). To put it another way, maybe the HP=wounds...

As someone who doesn't know the Jade Regent AP, you've given no relevant spoilers in this post, and if you want to give a player this much, I have a hard time seeing it'd ruin anything.

It kind of helps. All of these are based on a lot of meta-game knowledge that I recognize does impact play a lot. Still, just as low recovery time opens the new path of reacting slowly, it cuts off the old path of reacting quickly. The mechanics can't suggest both as the best course of...

Noriaki drops another foe? Where's my party hat? I need a party hat! As the cannibal slides to the ground, his life receding, Noriaki flicks the blood from his blade. "Perhaps later, minstrel, you might sing a tale of my valor." he says with a wink, sheathing his sword again.

I feel like I'm almost getting it, but still missing it. Narratively, I'm not even sure how a difference in non-wound HP would be expressed. The party simply lacks plot protection. That narrates the same, differing only in the narration of how the party survives or doesn't survive another...

I don't think I'm really doing an illusionism act here. I'm not hiding the way I DM. He just hasn't asked. I'm usually not open to any real discussion of meta-game concepts mid-session, and he and I don't spend nearly as much time together as I'd like outside the game. Even so, he knows at...

I think a key word there is "knew". I have at least one player who prefers a more "numerocentric" approach, but he actually has gone out of his way to compliment my DMing, possibly because he doesn't know the numbers are relative when I run the game.

Honestly, the second we go in practice, 4e does just fine. To paraphrase the last time a PC dropped into negatives in my 4e game: "The kobold's sword slips between the scales in your armor, and comes out slicked with blood. You drop to your knees, your vision clouded. Then you drop to your...

I missed this earlier, somehow(I blame the pagebreak). I think I can answer this one for you. The disconnect I have here is that you are equating the loss of HP with wounds, but these wounds have no mechanical or story impact, by RAW, other than making the next blow more likely to be (narrated...

My main problem with that is that this change is no greater in scope than the dearth of magical healing, both via class and item, that is so crucial to getting the wounding narrative in 3e. Thus my quip to Mort that we are not allowed to tweak 4e to taste.

Well, the entirety of Star Wars, in my opinion, would take place during heroic tier(1-10). That puts Empire Strikes Back at around level 4(this was near the start, iirc). I'd class Luke as an Avenger, so assuming 10 con he'd have 42hp(Avengers actually get pretty nice HP, now that I check...

Nitpick. A solo monster in 4e(like the wampa probably would be) dropping a character with low to middling HPs(like Luke probably would be, the Jedi's strength is not in taking blows) on a crit is not unfathomable, or even, ime, that unusual.

I would say this is a reflavor, not a houserule. The underlying disease mechanic isn't changing, but what you call it and what it represents in the game world is. In the same way that my home game has a Samurai despite 4e having no Samurai class(he's a Slayer). Natural Healing: The HP...

Gah, sorry, this thread keeps getting buried under the rest and I don't always notice when someone posts. Song bows his head. "It is not an easy life, madam, no, but we are men of conviction and purpose. We carry on. And the spirits are known to favor the bold and just, and have led us to...

Sorry, Mort. Using the existing rules of the game in varying ways to suit your specific needs and tastes is an option only available with other systems. We're not allowed to do it with 4e.

The Captain strides forth into the battlefield, worried at seeing his men disappear behind a tree. "Troops, to me!" he calls out. Soon, a swarm of piskies and grigs surrounds the Captain, the troops' discipline lasting just long enough to get them there, but not enough to form ranks. One is...

I think TC was referring to this.

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After giving Dossk a quick signal to lay off, the deva leans over to the goblin, laying a hand softly on his shoulder. "Look, we need to recover an item your chief stole, in order for our own chief to be able to go to the afterlife. There's no reason this has to be any harder on you than it...