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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Randalthor" data-source="post: 6103385" data-attributes="member: 6706950">You should check out Rolemaster, it is like this. You have Hits (like Hit Points, only not copyright infringy), but most likely you will not die from the loss of hits, but by a critical: the specific injury caused by the successful attack, like puncture to a lung with bleeding and death from suffocation in X-rounds, oh, and you are at X-negatives to all actions.* (And my own emphasis.)<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"></li> </ol>*My own belief of why the Hit Point mechanic is still more popular. All of that plus the "success" desire of most gamers (and I fall prey to this, as well, at times): Feeling the need to "succeed" -  and "hitting" is a success, even if it really isn't because it most-likely didn't do anything real, because it feels like a success. My little gaming Public Service Announcement:Fade In: Just about any gaming table, anywhere.Two gamers (use your own imagination here, please) sit at a dining room table, which is covered in a large map dotted with figurines, character sheets, dice, and soda cans - both full and empties.Ragnar: "Ooh! I did 8-points of "damage", how many more before the guy drops?"GM: Uuuh.. (not that your character would know this, but....).. 24.Ragnar: Hhmm. That seems weird. I have to "hit" this little, elf-dude around 4 times with my two-handed axe to drop him. And he doesn't feel a thing until then, huh?GM: Nope, he is just fine until he is unconscious on the way to death.Voice Over (Morgan Freeman - of course): Words mean stuff.Ding, ding...ding...diinnnggg. The more you know.</blockquote>

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