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<blockquote data-quote="the-golem" data-source="post: 5102014" data-attributes="member: 87242">Funny. I always thought of hitpoints as &quot;the ability to keep fighting&quot; more than &quot;heres how much health I have&quot; You can't numerically categorize how much &quot;life&quot; someone has, just as you cant numerically categorize their &quot;ability.&quot;HP, AC and Hit are abstractions of these concepts. Through experience and practice, one hones their skills and abilities. As a character &quot;levels,&quot; he or she becomes better at fighting, better at avoiding blows, stronger, faster, better.How else are you to quantify this in an RPG like D&amp;D except through abstract concepts, such as the aforementioned AC, HP, and Attack numbers?Think about it. Imagine a person wearing 100 pount plate, swinging around a 5-15 pound sword. After a while you are going to get tired and worn-out. As you get worn out, your ability to perform and pay attention decreases. As your overall ability declines, you run the risk of taking a rather unhealthy knock on the head. There are many, many things that factor into one's ability to keep going.Thus, I agree with the current WotC view of HP. Not because WotC is all knowing. Not because &quot;they said so.&quot;In other words, I agree with Nytmare</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the-golem, post: 5102014, member: 87242"] Funny. I always thought of hitpoints as "the ability to keep fighting" more than "heres how much health I have" You can't numerically categorize how much "life" someone has, just as you cant numerically categorize their "ability." HP, AC and Hit are [I]abstractions[/I] of these concepts. Through experience and practice, one hones their skills and abilities. As a character "levels," he or she becomes better at fighting, better at avoiding blows, stronger, faster, better. How else are you to quantify this in an RPG like D&D except through abstract concepts, such as the aforementioned AC, HP, and Attack numbers? Think about it. Imagine a person wearing 100 pount plate, swinging around a 5-15 pound sword. After a while you are going to get tired and worn-out. As you get worn out, your ability to perform and pay attention decreases. As your overall ability declines, you run the risk of taking a rather unhealthy knock on the head. There are many, many things that factor into one's ability to keep going. Thus, I agree with the current WotC view of HP. Not because WotC is all knowing. Not because "they said so." In other words, I agree with Nytmare [/QUOTE]

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