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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 4077810" data-attributes="member: 39593">Hit Points mean different things to different people.&nbsp; Some prefer to stay realistic, others just treat it as a game resource, most seem to describe them abstractly.&nbsp; What really matters isn't the particular description you use, so long as you're having fun with it cool.&nbsp; What matters is that within the same campaign/setting/etc you should always handle damage and healing mechanics the same way to maintain consistency.Personally I always ask myself &quot;What's the most f*ing metal thing I can think of.&quot;&nbsp; For me that means treating HP as actual raw physical damage.&nbsp; It's just better when the enraged lvl17 Barbarian charges the archers being pincushioned by a dozen arrows then is run through by a pikeman.&nbsp; Breaks the haft of the pike and kills him with it then grabs a fleeing archer and beats the BBEG to death using him as a club.&nbsp; Walks back to the rest of the party where the equally high level cleric of the god of Kicking Ass calls down divine power that makes it better and smacks him on the head for not leaving any for his nightly 'paint myself in the blood of my god's enemies' ceremony.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 4077810, member: 39593"] Hit Points mean different things to different people. Some prefer to stay realistic, others just treat it as a game resource, most seem to describe them abstractly. What really matters isn't the particular description you use, so long as you're having fun with it cool. What matters is that within the same campaign/setting/etc you should always handle damage and healing mechanics the same way to maintain consistency. Personally I always ask myself "What's the most f*ing metal thing I can think of." For me that means treating HP as actual raw physical damage. It's just better when the enraged lvl17 Barbarian charges the archers being pincushioned by a dozen arrows then is run through by a pikeman. Breaks the haft of the pike and kills him with it then grabs a fleeing archer and beats the BBEG to death using him as a club. Walks back to the rest of the party where the equally high level cleric of the god of Kicking Ass calls down divine power that makes it better and smacks him on the head for not leaving any for his nightly 'paint myself in the blood of my god's enemies' ceremony. [/QUOTE]

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