Tony Vargas
Legend
Spirituality-sight? Actually, at one point (2e? 3e?), I think there /was/ a spell that let you monitor hps, in essence. Death Sight, maybe?No. Hp corresponds to a confluence of of qualities. How does a character accurately assess how much luck or divine grace someone has left by looking at them?
'Percentage' would be an alien concept to most medieval warriors. But, yeah, assessing or 'feeling out' the enemy is something a cautious/skillful warrior might be depicted as doing in fiction. I think the BM has something for that, even.Do you think an accomplished warrior estimates their own chance of landing a blow on an opponent in terms of having to roll X or higher on a d20? Or that they can come up with actual percentages for hitting and missing?
I'd tell you he's clearly running 5e. Because he's well within his rights to say that.If this character has more than 120 HP, and your DM says that it is "certain" that this fall is instantly fatal, then I don't know what to tell you.
All of that information is available to the character. Hit Points correspond to current bodily integrity, which can be ascertained by looking at someone.
I don't know what's sillier, that you keep coming up with that nonsense, or that I keep replying to it. We both must enjoy it on some level.Because you have more skill and luck and so on, it requires more physical damage to actually put you down.
You're saying that luck and skill can keep you alive with a spear through your heart, or without your head. That's absurd.
What (little) D&D has had to say about hps (when it says anything at all) indicates that the skill and luck are 'used up' in avoiding the worst of blows that otherwise might have done that kind of physical damage to you. The thrust through the heart becomes a scratch on the arm as you twist to one side, because you're just that skillful, the decapitating slash only knocks off your hat as you bend over to tie your shoes, because you're just that lucky.
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