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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 8042906" data-attributes="member: 6775031">I really wish I could find the quote, but Gygax said a lot on the topic. Most of which contradicted himself in various places. Please take my word for it that he said in writing, on at least one occasion, that high numbers of HP at least partially reflect the fighter's ever-improving magical armors and defensive enchantments from the mage.Nothing that I know of, but support for that theory is only meant to cover core classes during the era of Gygax. If later editions failed to support that premise, then that's kind of the point of this whole tangent. Later editions did fail to support earlier premises.There's at least one reference in AD&D to an attack against a sleeping target being an automatic kill, bypassing hit points entirely. Another place has you reference the assassination table (even if you aren't an assassin). Like I said, there are enough inconsistencies that you could argue both ways. Which puts it at odds with later editions, where you really can't argue for anything like a reasonable (non-gamist) interpretation.</blockquote>