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<blockquote data-quote="Kordeth" data-source="post: 4085776" data-attributes="member: 5036">Erm--did you miss the entire part of my post where I gave examples of how to describe bloodied versus hurt-but-at-full-hp? Because I pretty much addressed that problem. If a DM doesn't feel like putting the time and effort into that much description, there's absolutely nothing wrong with &quot;yeah, he's bloodied&quot; or &quot;he looks pretty rough, but he seems to be at full strength.&quot;And given that the designers were talking about players telling when monsters are bloodied, I'm about 99% sure they were speaking from the assumption of within an encounter--as in, &quot;congratulations, you've just inflicted half the dragon's hp in damage, and hacked into its shoulder producing a spray of gore&quot; and not &quot;you see a guy. He's got some wounds. Is he bloodied? Who knows?&quot; So I'm really not that worried about the issue. If it's ever unclear and a PC's power use or abilities depend on it, I'm not such a jerkstore DM that I won't give an honest answer to the question &quot;is he bloodied?&quot;*(*That's not entirely true--feigning weakness with Bluff could, IMHO, trick someone into thinking that you're bloodied. But that's a specific case.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kordeth, post: 4085776, member: 5036"] Erm--did you miss the entire part of my post where I gave examples of how to describe bloodied versus hurt-but-at-full-hp? Because I pretty much addressed that problem. If a DM doesn't feel like putting the time and effort into that much description, there's absolutely nothing wrong with "yeah, he's bloodied" or "he looks pretty rough, but he seems to be at full strength." And given that the designers were talking about [i]players[/i] telling when [i]monsters[/i] are bloodied, I'm about 99% sure they were speaking from the assumption of [i]within an encounter[/i]--as in, "congratulations, you've just inflicted half the dragon's hp in damage, and hacked into its shoulder producing a spray of gore" and not "you see a guy. He's got some wounds. Is he bloodied? Who knows?" So I'm really not that worried about the issue. If it's ever unclear and a PC's power use or abilities depend on it, I'm not such a jerkstore DM that I won't give an honest answer to the question "is he bloodied?"* (*That's not entirely true--feigning weakness with Bluff could, IMHO, trick someone into thinking that you're bloodied. But that's a specific case.) [/QUOTE]

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