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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5622808" data-attributes="member: 42582">Because it tells me that human beings are human beings, not strange aliens in human casigns.But it seems fairly clear that he has no broken bones (given he pulls out his own nails!). He has suffered exhaustion, and starvation, and thirst.I don't find this very plausible, obviously, but the injuries are, at least in kind, the sort that bedrest can heal. Conan never gets a limb chopped off, or a major organ pierced, only to regenerate it via bedrest.The bolts and spikes must only pass through flesh and never organ or bone. And the wound then remain uninfected. As for the acid splashes, maybe the burns weren't very severe!I'm not saying I have a good working theory of pre-4e hit points here - I don't. I think the game sometimes presupposes that they're all meat but then, in a bid to address the obvious absurdiy of a human having more meat than a dragon or an elepehant, tells us that they're really something else.4e gets away with more in relation to hit points, I think, because it more obviously embraces fortune-in-the-middle mechanics to resolve death and dying - thereby allowing the narrative of hit point lost to be told in a way that fits the subsequent upshot of that loss - and because it embraces the consequences of hit points not being all meat (eg Inspiring Word, using social skills to inflict hit point damage, etc).But anyway, for me the bottom line is that no injury from which a person recovers without surgery, whether that recovery happens overnight or over a week or a month, can be serious damage to a limb or vital organ.</blockquote>

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