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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 6479176" data-attributes="member: 6787503"><p>Here's the thing, Cooper's Color Code is not a comprehensive scientific study of the real mental-states that people in combat actually experience. It is an ideal that is presented for training purposes, to help you get into what Cooper calls the combat mindset. In Cooper's own words it is, "a means of setting one’s mind into the proper condition when exercising lethal violence." So, under Cooper's system, a person's mental state is not dictated by the circumstances he or she finds themselves in, but is under the control of the person as far as what they think is appropriate. Cooper explains that, "some students insist upon confusing the appropriate color with the amount of danger evident in the situation. As I have long taught, you are not in any color state because of the specific amount of danger you may be in... your combat mind-set is not dictated by the amount of danger to which you are exposed at the time. Your combat mind-set is properly dictated by the state of mind you think appropriate to the situation." So you can't assume that just because someone is in a fight that they have gone to condition red, or that if someone notices a threat that they are in condition orange. They may not even know that the threat is a threat. Only the DM knows for sure whether a monster or NPC means to do a character harm. Noticing a threat is completely different from identifying a threat as such. Sure, if everyone followed Cooper's teachings they might be able to make better decisions in a combat situation. I don't know if that's ever been proven. But it's very clear that this is not the way people naturally act. If they did then Cooper wouldn't have had to invent the Color Code to teach them how to get into the Combat Mindset. As I said up-thread, it's very unlikely that D&D characters and monsters are trained in these methods, so you don't know what their mindset is given a particular set of circumstances. I would wonder if we are both reading the same article if you hadn't provided the link yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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