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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6950493" data-attributes="member: 6775031">If characters can't observe an in-game reality which corresponds to HP, then they wouldn't be able to cast a Cure spell without committing the illegal act of meta-gaming. If we assume the game is playable as a role-playing game, then it follows that characters can observe something which corresponds to HP. It might be the tiniest of scrapes or bruises, but HP damage is not only plot armor or luck or other such intangibles.You might think it's weird that someone who has taken any degree of sword wound can effectively act at close enough to maximum efficiency that we don't need to model the penalty, but you cannot argue that HP reflects something that the characters can't observe - not while still giving that information to the players, and asking them to make decisions based on it. If you're trying to argue that you can hit someone, without actually hitting them, then you aren't even speaking English anymore.</blockquote>