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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7843110" data-attributes="member: 996">Short answer: No.But, y'know, whining at the screen over your precious immersions changes nothing, while DMs can sometimes be influenced.Ultimately, it's not that hit points are hard to get, it's that willfully misconstruing the abstraction of hps can be used to criticize the game.That's what EGG's 1979 DMG hp-treatise was, a response to bogus criticisms of the game, by pretending that hit points could only be physical structure - you have twice as many hps? Your character must weigh twice as much!&nbsp; Ha! Stupid, D&amp;D!&nbsp; Come back to the sandtable, kids, and play a realistic wargame!Nice point, actually.&nbsp; Hit points work for anything from the BS&amp;P of an old Saturday-morning cartoon right up to NC-17.Of course, it's maaaaagic!&nbsp; (But, yeah, technically, in every edition I can recall, putting a limb back on required something far beyond a mere poor-baby Cure..Wounds spell.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7843110, member: 996"] Short answer: No. But, y'know, whining at the screen over your precious immersions changes nothing, while DMs can sometimes be influenced. Ultimately, it's not that hit points are hard to get, it's that willfully misconstruing the abstraction of hps can be used to criticize the game. That's what EGG's 1979 DMG hp-treatise was, a response to bogus criticisms of the game, by pretending that hit points could only be physical structure - you have twice as many hps? Your character must weigh twice as much! Ha! Stupid, D&D! Come back to the sandtable, kids, and play a realistic wargame! Nice point, actually. Hit points work for anything from the BS&P of an old Saturday-morning cartoon right up to NC-17. Of course, it's maaaaagic! (But, yeah, technically, in every edition I can recall, putting a limb back on required something far beyond a mere poor-baby Cure..Wounds spell.) [/QUOTE]

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