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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9099000" data-attributes="member: 29398">The whole point of natural language is to use words they way they're otherwise used outside of the game, isn't it?  Not doing so is a flaw, and turns those words into jargon.Hit and miss mean what they mean: you got hit or you got missed. (and your assumption is correct, damage on a miss is a complete non-starter for me).  Damage means pain in some form (I have all hit points being at least a tiny bit "meat", with the meat proportion increasing as the hit point total gets lower) as well as fatigue.  Dying means just that: you're very likely gonna die unless someone tends you.  I've always had an issue, in every edition, with the disparity between being at 0  hit points (dead, dying, or unconscious, depending on edition) and 1 hit point (fully functional, if fragile).I think you're right on the bolded, due to the greater reliance on keywords and conditions and the resultant bending of the fiction to suit them.</blockquote>