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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5778351" data-attributes="member: 87792">So.  Let me get this straight.  They changed a purely gamist system in which the body of a mid level fighter does not react at all to a critical hit from an orc except to say "Better not take another of those" to one with measures of shock and stamina which is consistent and makes sense most of the time.  And your objection is that they changed a strictly gamist mechanic into one with some measure of simulationism?  And that the new version of the mechanic is not 100% compatable with your attemots to justify raw gamism?That is a theoretical possibility.  I think I have once in all my time playing D&D seen someone die from three failed death saves.  Maybe twice.Hit points do not make sense to everyone.  In fact Gary Gygax put them in as a purely gamist construct.  Healing surges are simply badly named.  Would you have the same issue if Healing Surges were renamed "Resilience"?  Becaus that's what both the number of surges and the surge value measures.Almost the reverse.  Allowing someone to spend a healing surge isn't actually healing them.  The measure of how damaged you are is how many healing surges you are down as well as the hit points.  Real genuine healing isn't Inspiring Word or even Healing Word.  The damage is still there and the debt is still due.  It's Cure Light Wounds.  Genuine magical healing is surgeless.  Yes, this does mean you need to rethink what a hit point is.  But that's because a hit point has never been a coherent measure of anything.</blockquote>

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