Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4543279" data-attributes="member: 18280">Pre-4e, any damage can be described given the circumstances under which it occurs, the amount of damage taken, and the number of hit points remaining.  No subsequent events in the game will force you to alter your initial description (or discover you've entered Monty Python land if you do not).In 4e, subsequent events force you to alter your initial description (or discover you've entered Monty Python land if you do not).....or force you to not describe (and hence reduce immersion).  Constantly.Of course, for some, this isn't a big change in paradigm.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" />  I suspect that they simply failed to "get" Gygaxian hit points/damage in the first place, if they were getting Schrödinger's Wounding/were unable to describe damage consistently with that system.  From personal experience, I can say that hundred of players and dozens of DMs of my aquaintance were able to describe wounds consistently within the framework of Gygaxian hit points.RC</blockquote>