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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Denaes" data-source="post: 2576892" data-attributes="member: 33738">WP/VP is actually 95% the same mechanic as HP are in D&D, only spelled out for easier reference. When you're a level 10 Fighter with 70 HP, your body isn't really as physically resiliant as a piece of Iron or a tree, you're still human. Only a smaller fraction of your HP is actual honest to <insert god name> damage. For the most part, it's scrapes and bruises and near misses, etc. Thats all caused because you're moving in combat and not standing still. Even if someone had their knife to your throat, if your HP can take it, it doesn't mean you took a knife into the throat and keep on going. It means you weasled out of the way and/or deflected the blow taking only a tiny cut.But thats exactly what WP/VP is as well, only it's spelled out for you which is scrape/bruise/luck and what exactly is dagger into your stomache and broken bone damage. Now the fact that you can bypass the VP is strictly a matter of taste. It's not very heroic to have your level 10 Fighter get a broken neck by falling down a flight of stairs or hit in the face by a mook. I've actually played in a D&D game where every bit of your HP was a direct wound and it was atrocious. Everyone was like a literal pincushion with arrows sticking out of them and getting bastard swords burried to their hilts in their stomaches and they continue to fight like nothing happened. I found it very humorous, but the GM was trying to make it all seriously epic and got annoyed when I kept laughing and after the game joked about it.</blockquote>

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