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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7202231" data-attributes="member: 53980">No single guideline can explain hit points.Consider the case of an assassin with a poison dagger. Even at full hp, if the dagger hits, the target will have to save versus poison. Clearly that is not a case of a blocked attack or a mere bruise. The target must have been cut (even if it is only a scratch) in order to introduce the poison to the bloodstream  (which in turn prompts the saving throw).As to your other point (that healing of bruising is fast even with the slow healing rules) consider that just because the hp loss might indicate bruising, doesn't mean that those hps are necessarily lost until the bruising entirely fades. I've had plenty of bruises which hurt quite badly when they occurred, but by the next day were negligible despite being unsightly.</blockquote>