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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thasmodious" data-source="post: 4548750" data-attributes="member: 63272">No.  It wouldn't.  The description does not match what is happening in the game.  "Your spaceship is crashing because the pixelated fairy unicorns refuse to supply the hyperdrive with 20th century gasoline" is a poor description for a serious sci-fi setting in which a spaceship is actually crashing.  It's even worse for a rousing game of Boot Hill.  Describing a PC reduced to 0 hit points, in 4e, as mortally wounded with bits of lung flying everywhere, his entrails grappling him, and his liver making a desperate bid for freedom out the dungeon door is a poor match for a system with leaders, healing powers, inspiring powers, healing surges, potions, the heal skill...  0 hit points does not equal mortal wound, character near death.  It equals unconscious, requires attention before it gets serious.  "Bob backtracks as the orc presses the attack, his axe a whirl of slashes.  Suddenly, an axe blow slips by Bob's shield and the rest of you hear a sickening crunch and see a spray of blood as the axe hits Bob in the chest.  He falls slowly to the floor, facedown."Warlord: "Bob!  Remember the words I spoke to you and to all when the trolls of the Fens descended upon us and all hope was lost - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition:And gentlemen in Waterdeep now a-bedShall think themselves accursed they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day!"-inspiring word applied-Bob raises his head slowly, the orc having turned his back on the fallen warrior, and through sheer will, he rises to his feet, his hand still gripped tight around his longsword, blood flowing beneath his dented breastplate and soaking his tunic.  The orc senses this and turns around.  Bob spits a wad of blood on the ground between them and grins, his teeth outlined in red.That's a more fitting representation of description that matches up with the game mechanics at play.  I enjoy DMing 4e because I understand the game system as it is and have not arbitrarily attached unwarranted and unsupported suppositions on top of the clear, concise rules and then contrived phony situations to illustrate non existant problems.  But that's just me.</blockquote>

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