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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4996770" data-attributes="member: 58197">The way I see it, hit points represent your character's will to live, and the D&D world is one in which spiritual forces play a much larger role than they do in our own.In the real world, if you're bleeding out, it doesn't really matter how much you want to live. The medical facts are what they are, and when your blood pressure is too low to supply oxygen to your brain, it's lights out for you. (Although you might be able to muster the determination to put on a tourniquet or something, where a less motivated person would just lie back and croak.)In the D&D world, if you're bleeding out, sheer determination can keep you alive. You can actually will your body to keep going when it should by rights be dying or dead. That can mean you survive a wound that should have killed you. (It can also mean the wound does kill you, but three days later your animated corpse claws its way up out of the ground.)[SIZE=-2]...I don't entirely buy this argument, but it works well enough that I can gloss over the problem in my own head. Mostly.[/SIZE]</blockquote>