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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hautamaki" data-source="post: 5538187" data-attributes="member: 42219">I have to agree that HP and falling damage are two serious abstractions... for myself, falling damage is handled according to the actual 9.8m/s^2 and results in falling damage escalating to 22d6 by 80 feet and still increasing geometrically from there... in other words, only proper super humans are going to survive a fall like that.But in general, HP isn't that bad.  Like it says in the original rulebooks, a 5th level fighter isn't actually able to absorb more physical punishment then a couple of warhorses.  It's that the 5th level fighter is able to 'roll with the punches' and be affected by lucky breaks/fate, that keep him alive when the same blows directed at said warhorses would have already felled them.  Now that D&D4 has incorporated the 'bloodied' condition a mechanic is specifically built in to show how accumulated damage can cause a reduction in capability.Healing is another great example of how abstract HP is a problem.  Why should a cure light wounds fully heal a near-death low level character, but barely be sufficient to close a shaving scratch on a high level character?  I got around this by house-ruling that healing effects cure a percentage of total HP.  A cure light wounds potion will recover 1 or 2 HP on a low level character, but would recover 10 or 20 to a higher level character with a lot more HP.The reason they didn't do this in the first place is that the original idea was to make healing get more expensive for higher level characters as a balance issue (I suppose).  But if you do away with that conceit I think that HP works just fine.</blockquote>

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