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<blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 6102849">Today is by Birthday, so forgive my bluntness (its my Birthday after all). As an old codger that's been on these here interwebs since pretty much the beginning , I swear this must have been what happened:In the beginning, there was light (internet born)Day 1 - first post on a message board - &quot;What do you think HPs mean?&quot;Day 2 - porn (scanners were slow back then, otherwise porn would have been first).My advice to you is just roll initiative and go kick some butt. HPs make the whole thing work - it allows piddly humans to go kill Tarasqueses, shrug off fireballs, absorb 20 arrows from little goblins, and fall of 100' cliffs without even spraining an ankle. Thinking about it just unravels all the fun of D&amp;D. For example, that falling off a cliff I just mentioned - is it tiring or unluckly based on your post? -- see - it just makes your head hurt to think about it. Dragon's breath - does that make you tired? Yep, you just pulled the thread on the rug.I play Savage Worlds these days and it does things much different. From that perspective, one sees the elegance of the whole HP/AC/Damage system of D&amp;D, especially when dealing with the Giants/Dragons/Big Nasties out there. It works so well that most video games use it (although FPS seem to have moved away from it). Its something that D&amp;D got right for what it wanted to do - heroes doing heroic things that no normal human could even try.Grumpy old man signing off <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="amerigoV, post: 6102849"] Today is by Birthday, so forgive my bluntness (its my Birthday after all). As an old codger that's been on these here interwebs since pretty much the beginning , I swear this must have been what happened: In the beginning, there was light (internet born) Day 1 - first post on a message board - "What do you think HPs mean?" Day 2 - porn (scanners were slow back then, otherwise porn would have been first). My advice to you is just roll initiative and go kick some butt. HPs make the whole thing work - it allows piddly humans to go kill Tarasqueses, shrug off fireballs, absorb 20 arrows from little goblins, and fall of 100' cliffs without even spraining an ankle. Thinking about it just unravels all the fun of D&D. For example, that falling off a cliff I just mentioned - is it tiring or unluckly based on your post? -- see - it just makes your head hurt to think about it. Dragon's breath - does that make you tired? Yep, you just pulled the thread on the rug. I play Savage Worlds these days and it does things much different. From that perspective, one sees the elegance of the whole HP/AC/Damage system of D&D, especially when dealing with the Giants/Dragons/Big Nasties out there. It works so well that most video games use it (although FPS seem to have moved away from it). Its something that D&D got right for what it wanted to do - heroes doing heroic things that no normal human could even try. Grumpy old man signing off :) [/QUOTE]

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