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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4231060" data-attributes="member: 49613">Since D&D has always had the possibility of a grown man, even a warrior, having 1 hit point, I'm going to stick with my contention that only injuries which are potentially life-threatening do 1 or more hit points of damage.  So I agree with Rex that thrown rocks, stale pastries, stubbed toes, etc. do not inflict 1 hit point of damage.Hit points are a measure of your ability to cheat death, to turn a lethal blow into a non-lethal one.  They're a mixture of luck, skill and fate.If you want to talk about "realism", realistically a dagger is a very dangerous weapon.  A dagger thrust to the heart should kill just about any organism, including alien beasts from the netherworld (assuming that they're fleshy and have analogous organs to the heart).  So even a totally bad@ss creature might be susceptible to the peasant's arrow... after all, if the arrow strikes it in the neck or the eye or the heart it could expire from a single hit.Other games, like Runequest and Rolemaster and so on have always had the possibility of men and creatures, even powerful ones, dying from 1 hit.  The Minion rules are no different.  The only difference is, in Rolemaster the extent to which you lead a charmed life is discovered mostly through the die rolls (as in, not getting your arm chopped off by a lucky shot).  In D&D, the extent to which you live a charmed life is quantified in the rules... you have a reserve of "hit points" which you have to blow through before the arm-chopping starts.</blockquote>

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