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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7233365" data-attributes="member: 29398">Or Star Wars RPG with its Wound and Vitality Points, yes.We already have something similar in our 1e game: Body Points and Fatigue Points, the sum of which are your Hit Points.All creatures have body points.  For most "kindred races" it's a d4 to d6 worth of these, depending on race, with a minimum set by your Con.  Commoners, adventurers, everyone gets these.On top of these come your fatigue points.  These are what you roll for each level...and yes this means everyone has a few more h.p. than RAW would suggest once you add in body points...and progress as normal.B.p. are harder to cure and-or rest back - cure spells roll lower dice to fix them, and so forth, and my game doesn't have healing word or any other ranged curing so I happily get to ignore how that would work.  But you can rest them back, even if slowly.It's not hard at all to get used to...and hit points are always rolled. <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=":)" />Again, not that difficult: just determine how many b.p. a monster might have (e.g. a kobold might have d3 at best) and either add that to their h.p. total or - in the case of giants and other big things - just assume that most of their h.p. are body points.  It's not often anyone bothers curing up the monsters they just beat, so that shouldn't be a concern.I just have curing potions work the same regardless of the type of points being cured...part of the benefit of the magic in the potion, I suppose. <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=":)" />Trivially easy: temps are always fatigue points - even if you're otherwise at less than full b.p. - and always get "used up" first when taking any damage. Our system is written up at the link below if you want to look at it in more depth.<a href="http://www.friendsofgravity.com/games/commons_room/blue_books/decast-blue-book-in-html/decbluebook4.html#hit" target="_blank">http://www.friendsofgravity.com/games/commons_room/blue_books/decast-blue-book-in-html/decbluebook4.html#hit</a>The simplest way to avoid or break death spirals is to rest until you're fully recovered.  If there's a time crunch to the mission then there's some hard choices to make...odds of survival vs. odds of success.  I like this.If a healer is needed and nobody wants to play it (rarely a problem IME) then the DM can always chuck an NPC healer into the party - if the PCs are wise enough to go out and recruit one. <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=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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