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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 397728" data-attributes="member: 4937">"HP are meant to describe the ability to ignore pain and injuries. So, if you have more HP, you can ignore things better."Probably less than 10% of a high level characters h.p. represent the ability to ignore pain and injuries (unless they've taken alot of Toughness).  The remainder represent the ability to AVOID pain and injuries.Thus for any given attack doing X damage, the higher level the character the less actual damage was actually done.  A Dire Tiger slashes a peasant for 14 h.p.  This represents near total disembowlment.   The same 14 h.p. to a 20th level fighter represents a deep cut. In the case of amputation of a pinky, the ammount of damage done is ABSOLUTE and defined.  Therefore it is reasonable to suggest that it represents some percentage of your h.p. total, as 1 h.p. of damage to a high level fighter represents a minor scratch - not loss of a digit.Likewise, I treat it as a bleeding wound because amputation is by necessity a critical wound having (in my mind) some additional effect beyond mere h.p. loss.  While we might not normally want to keep track of called shots and disfiguring wounds or other 'critical effects' and use the simplier system of simply multiplying damage , we have been forced to by the game situation.</blockquote>