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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6950566" data-attributes="member: 6775031">You could certainly build a system where HP are almost entirely fatigue, like 4E did and like 5E does with its default description. It does create some issues, but you can work around those without meta-gaming, if you make certain assumptions. Personally, I don't find it very compelling at all, to describe a narrative where people panic over almost getting hit and spend a king's ransom on potions that are essentially Gatorade, but that's a matter of taste. My original post in this thread was just saying that - how it's not very satisfying to describe HP that way; that it's the biggest problem I see with the game as a whole; and a recommendation on how to fix it. I was trying to keep these two lines of conversation separate, since they're addressing similar yet distinct issues. That other guy - the troll - was trying to argue that meta-gaming is okay. And that's not something I can let pass unchallenged. It's an affront to the very concept of role-playing.For your part, I just wanted to emphasize that the characters need to understand how their resources recover. It's disingenuous to have them pretend that rest matters at all, if they actually recover based on encounters. (And it's weird for the characters to acknowledge that they recover based on encounters, and make decisions taking that into consideration.) I'm not quite sure how to resolve that particular conundrum without resorting to video game physics, where vanquished monsters leave power-ups behind when they die.</blockquote>

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