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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3758746" data-attributes="member: 710">I just wonder something about something other posters wrote:If Action Points are used to protect from a bad die roll, for example against a Instant Death effect, don't they essentially become Hit Points, just different?Basically, Hitpoints are there to protect PCs from nasty things happening to them. Instant Death effects bypass hit points. Therefore we need a new mechanic that can protect them from these effects...Why not just make Instant Death effect hit points dependend in the first place? All that said, I still like Action Points. Especially because they give you a tool to say "I want to try something awesomely difficult, but it would also just look awesome. Can I spent an action point to make it possible?" "Yes!!!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And it could also serve for so many other purposes. What's important to keep in mind is that Mearls(?) state in the podcast that "They are not your fathers action points" and that they wouldn't want to go back there. This indicates to me that they work differently than Starwars Force Points and D20 Modern Action Points. So, maybe they will even be fine for those that didn't like th first ones...</blockquote>