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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 8050550" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Then those rules aren't very good. Injury is not a foreign concept in physical competition, nor is death. If any ruleset was designed to adequately address the topic, rather than pass over it quickly so that we can move on to more interesting things, then it would include rules for taking damage.If a character has 1hp, in spite of their Constitution of 11, then they are factually and demonstrably not healthy. Healthy people don't die from the sorts of things that cause exactly 1 damage; they die some of the time, from the sorts of things that cause 1-6 damage.Yes, and any rule which is likely to generate such a result is a bad rule. Old D&D was full of bad rules, and the possibility of a fighter having 1hp is an example of that, which was fixed in 3E.Yes, with a caveat. If the competition is taking place outside of an adventure, then whether or not anyone takes non-fatal damage is largely irrelevant. If you take 1 damage from tripping over a rock, or straining to lift a weight, then there's no point in tracking that damage since it will be gone by the time it would matter. Someone who gets injured, and thus performs poorly, can be modeled sufficiently with just a bad result on the relevant checks. Adding damage to the model does not change the outcome at all, in circumstances where it would normally apply - unless someone is trying to compete while they only have 1hp.</blockquote>

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