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<blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 6950588" data-attributes="member: 984">5e's default &quot;so far to one side&quot; position wouldn't seem unusual to the creators of the game:5e isn't copying a position from 4e, it is a continuation of the nature and meaning of Hit Points since the dawn of AD&amp;D.&nbsp; They are, and have always been, mostly everything that makes a hero a hero and not simply limited to the tracking of sheer physical punishment. When you get &quot;hit&quot; you are (once past first level) rarely actually getting physically hit by a solid blow.&nbsp; That is not to say there isn't a conversation we can have about different game styles and supplementary rules that modify how quickly those hit points return.&nbsp; 5e does lie on the quicker side of the spectrum across editions, (as 4e did) and some alternate rules to slow down that recovery could fit quite well in many campaigns.&nbsp; I wrote a rules supplement for 4e that did just that.&nbsp; But overall there's nothing extreme in how 5e is presenting Hit Points.&nbsp; It's been baked into (A)D&amp;D for 38 years.&nbsp; peace,Kannik(Equally baked into the system is that hit point loss has no impact on a character's abilities until they hit 0 -- again, no reason there couldn't be supplementary rules that altered that, but that would be a big switch in the nature of the game, and it would be good to note to DMs that the &quot;death spiral&quot; effect is something to watch out for...)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kannik, post: 6950588, member: 984"] 5e's default "so far to one side" position wouldn't seem unusual to the creators of the game: 5e isn't copying a position from 4e, it is a continuation of the nature and meaning of Hit Points since the dawn of AD&D. They are, and have always been, mostly everything that makes a hero a hero and not simply limited to the tracking of sheer physical punishment. When you get "hit" you are (once past first level) rarely actually getting physically hit by a solid blow. That is not to say there isn't a conversation we can have about different game styles and supplementary rules that modify how quickly those hit points return. 5e does lie on the quicker side of the spectrum across editions, (as 4e did) and some alternate rules to slow down that recovery could fit quite well in many campaigns. I wrote a rules supplement for 4e that did just that. But overall there's nothing extreme in how 5e is presenting Hit Points. It's been baked into (A)D&D for 38 years. peace, Kannik (Equally baked into the system is that hit point loss has no impact on a character's abilities until they hit 0 -- again, no reason there couldn't be supplementary rules that altered that, but that would be a big switch in the nature of the game, and it would be good to note to DMs that the "death spiral" effect is something to watch out for...) [/QUOTE]

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