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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 4543617" data-attributes="member: 1645">RC, you claimed that whatever wound or injury was caused by a hit could easily be described (in-game), based on how much damage was rolled (meta-game) compared to how many hit points the victim still had remaining, and you'd never have to recant:Lacyon pointed out that this is not true at all, because a 5-hp sword stroke causes very, very different wounds (in-game) to a 1st-level fighter with, say, 6 hp than to a 10th-level fighter with dozen of hit points -- but they both heal up with the same amount of magical healing -- or mundane healing, for that matter: Or do you assert that the wounds the 1st- and 10th-level fighters received were both inconsequential flesh wounds?  I don't think you do, or this rebuke would make no sense: I think most people agree with your basic outlook on hit points, RC, that, say, the first 5-hp sword stroke to a 50-hp fighter is just a scratch, what one might call a light wound.  I think most people also agree that the last 5-hp sword stroke, the one that takes the once-mighty fighter down below 0 hp is a serious wound.What's ambiguous, I suppose, it what happens in between.  If each and every wound is a tiny scratch, it makes no sense for them to add up to a serious, life-threatening injury.  If each wound is a little bit worse than the previous wounds, which seems reasonable, then the first 5-hp wound should be light, and maybe the next few too, but after that they should be moderate, and so on.  And for the poor 1st-level guy, they should go straight to moderate or serious wounds -- but that's not how the game works.So, is every wound that doesn't drop a character to 0 hp or below just a nick or a scratch?  If so, how and why is that character closer to death and in need of healing?Or is each wound more and more severe as the character gets closer and closer to 0 hp?  That seems to be what you're saying, but that clearly implies that 5 hp means a tiny wound some times and a serious -- pardon, not-quite-serious -- wound other times.  Each of which takes the same amount of mundane or magical healing.</blockquote>

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