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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5703463" data-attributes="member: 8835">make a stupid math or terminology mistake and everybody misses the point <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=":)" />rolling multiple dice for damage creates a bell curve.  If everybody has HP that are equal to that maximum result, you've got a rarer but possible chance for a single fatal blow.the downside is, most fights end after 2 hits.  Which is pretty lethal and short.  You'd be relying on the stormtrooper effect to keep people alive by increasing AC.Another idea (and none of these are tested) is stick with 12 HP, but damage is 1d6.  And allow for critical hits to double the damage.Then, the average attack will be 3.5, meaning it will take 4 hits to kill a guy, unless he rolls a 6 and a crit.That would probably play closer to a 1st level with a shortsword attacking a 1st level barbarian. in terms of outcome.Obviously, I'm just modeling lower HP scales, but using the concept of how many hits to kill to feel out the numbers.I think one of the challenges is whether you want to accept that it WILL take 6 hits to kill a guy, regardless of skill.There are times, an instakill makes sense.  Other times (like for equally skilled opponents) that a longer fight makes sense.  Going to a pure HTK system means all fights require 6 hits to finish.  Just like a sparrring match.Conversely, even D&D doesn't really have instakill.  Vs. weak enough opponents, sure you can do enough damage to just kill something.  But more often than not, the PC will face things with more HP than they can inflict damage in a single round.</blockquote>

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