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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 5926327" data-attributes="member: 16586">You know it's funny - whenever discussion of specialized combat maneuvers like tripping or bull rush come up I'm amazed that so many people are comfortable with codified rules that don't take what's happening in the fiction into account. I am far more comfortable with engaging a meta resource to occasionally trip someone than I am of the 3e trip attack fighter who trips, trips, and trips some more. I find that far more immersion breaking. Honestly given how abstract D&D combat is I have trouble actually viewing myself as living in the moment of what's going through my character's mind. That being said, I have no real issue with relying on DM adjudication for those moments because the DM can look at the fiction of what's happening at the table in a way that no codified rules set can without making the rules overly specific.On the issue of hit points, I've never really seen the value in viewing them in such a literal sense, especially when it comes to clerical healing. Some people might not mind the idea that even low level Clerics are constantly bringing their compatriots back from the brink of death as if it were nothing. That does not result in a satisfying narrative for me though. I allows assumed that a good portion of Clerical healing was reinvigorating the spirit and restoring the stamina of those they healed.</blockquote>