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Message: <blockquote data-quote="charlesatan" data-source="post: 4439431" data-attributes="member: 20870">I disagree. D&D has had situations that can push your off button. Such as death. The point isn't to eliminate it entirely, but not to make it as arbitrary as failing one roll.This isn't apparent but the higher in the tiers you go, the more such situations pop up. Is Swallow Whole a bad predicament? Yes. But there are worse situations, such as Petrification. Or getting reduced to 0 hit points immediately thanks to a Finger of Death and the like. You might as well avoid fighting Orcus because he can bring you down from full hit points to zero.Getting bloodied is a bad situation to be in, in much the same way getting damaged is a bad situation. But in general, "bloodied" should be a signifier that things start to happen, either in a positive way (i.e. the Dragonborn's bonus to attack rolls kick in) or in a bad way (i.e. certain abilities can only be used when someone is bloodied). Some monsters also start to behave differently when they are bloodied (getting hurt does that to you).</blockquote>