Does Muntants and Masterminds have no hit points?

[Voneth]

I was looking at their 4 page pdf preview and if I am reading it right, there is no class or hit points to the system.

There seems to be a small chart that compares something like a defense roll to a damage roll. If a damage roll is successful, it wears down the defense roll until a character is down.

Or am I missing something?

 

[Neo]

The below colum is from the M&M preview as I'm sure you know and is regarding Damage, hit points do not seem to come into it at all, or even get mentioned.

DAMAGE TABLE
Damage Save …Stun Damage Lethal Damage
Succeeds No damage No damage
Fails Hit Hit
Fails by more than 5 Stunned Stunned
Fails by more than 10 Unconscious Disabled
No damage:The target shrugs off the attack without
any effect.
Hit:The target suffers a minor hit.Every stun hit
imposes a –1 modifier on Damage saves against further
stun damage.Every lethal hit imposes a -1 modifier on
Damage saves against all forms of damage —both stun
and lethal —since it represents a more serious weak-
ening of the character ’s resistance.This penalty is
cumulative with the penalty for stun hits.So a character
with 4 stun hits and 3 lethal hits suffers a -7 penalty to
Damage saves against stun damage and a -3 penalty to
Damage saves against lethal damage.
Stunned:The target takes 1 hit as above and is
stunned for 1 round.The character cannot take any
actions (including free actions such as sustaining
powers)and loses any dodge bonus to Defense.
Attackers gain a +2 bonus to hit stunned characters.
Unconscious:The character is knocked out,
effectively helpless.
Disabled:The character is conscious and able to act but
terribly injured.He can take only a half action each
round (either moving or attacking,but not both),and if
he performs any strenuous action,his condition changes
to unconscious after the completing the action.
Strenuous actions include moving,attacking,or using
any ability that requires physical exertion or mental
concentration (including most powers).

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

No hits points ; damage save
No classes ; Powerlevels granting powerpoints (or whatever their called) that you use to buy anything you need.

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[Kenson]

While it's correct that Mutants & Masterminds has no character classes, it's not quite true that there are not hit points in the game. The basic system does not use hit points; it's a Damage saving throw against a damage DC, but there are optional rules for using hit points and damage rolls in the game (along with a lot of other optional rules that let you customize the game the way you want it). So if you prefer hit points, you can use them with M&M just fine.

 

[Voneth]

optional hit points!

Don't do that! Someone might reverse engineer the rule and then you would have ... DND without hitpoints!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
*runs around in a panic, until he runs into a tree branch and then lays out on the lawn*

 

[Horacio]

optional hit points!

Don't do that! Someone might reverse engineer the rule and then you would have ... DND without hitpoints!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
*runs around in a panic, until he runs into a tree branch and then lays out on the lawn*

I did it

Now my Four Color to Fantasy campaign has no hit points. More info (including the rules) at the story hour, link in my signature
If you go there, please drop a comment