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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kordeth" data-source="post: 4098868" data-attributes="member: 5036">No, you're fighting at full capacity. There's a difference. Think back to, oh, say, every action movie ever made--how many times have you seen the hero take a crippling gunshot to the shoulder or a knife to the gut, and yeah, for a minute or two there it looks like he's in bad shape. But then he shakes it off, maybe slaps a bandage on, and in the next scene he's completely ignoring the wound despite the fact that, in real life, it would probably take surgery and months of rehab to get back even 50% of the use of that limb.That's what D&D 4E hit points represent. 4th Edition is a larger-than-life fantasy action movie, and every PC is as tough as John McClane.And that's a perfectly valid playstyle, and one which I enjoy myself--it's just not the type of game 4E is trying to be.Not surprising considering real-world athletes don't live in action-movie-land. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>