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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 4012558" data-attributes="member: 32164">Oh, I don't think that's it.A "normal" person dies when hit by a single arrow, maybe two. If you decide that hit points represent purely physical damage, the high-level D&D hero can survive a dozen or more of such hits (that do max damage). One arrow does 8 hit points. A 20th-level fighter could easily have almost 200. That's like 2 dozen direct hits, with the PC still standing.Speaking for myself, it's not that I have a problem with a heroic character being able to take 3 or even 4 times what a normal human being can, it's that the SoD is strained, but not broken, when that happens. Up to there, and maybe a little past that, is like the SoD it takes to watch a Die Hard, James Bond, or Indiana Jones movie. But asking me to believe that a character can take a dozen or 20 times what a normal human can...that's too much, and my suspension of disbelief is shattered.On the other hand, it's a lot easier to believe that the character survived the attacks because they weren't really as solid as they seemed. That, to me, is heroic luck at work.</blockquote>