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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1459550" data-attributes="member: 5777">I dont think that anyone should be too hardball about useing game mechanic terms as a player and have them translated to something that makes sense in the game.After all, as players we dont really know just which way a few points of damage will be interpreted.'Near death' could be interpreted, for a 100hp character, anywhere from -9 to 99 hp, it is too ambiguous, and as such the condition would either trigger all too often or never trigger, at dm's option. That just isnt very useful.So the player would have to state random things in hopes that something will occur at around the right time. Or one could simply assume that the player saying, 'when I have only 10% of my current hp' can be translated into character terms by something along the lines of, 'when I feel this bad or worse then trigger and fix me up'. They both mean exactly the same thing, but the player and dm can communicate it much easier, and the character can still do what is necissary.Remember, in the game world these mechanics actually exist in some form or another. But the terms they would use and how they would use them would take a huge amount of time and effort for everyone to learn.. they would have to know the game mechanics terms, and their names in the game world. It is much simpler to just skip the middle man and use game mechanic terms and assume that the characters will translate it properly. Then everyone can be happy and the amount of work needed goes down drastically.Plus, with this spell, the player can be much more exact and precise, while relying on the spell to figure out what it means in the game world. Which is more or less as it should be because of how precise the spell wishes the conditions to be.</blockquote>

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