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<blockquote data-quote="vagabundo" data-source="post: 4774578" data-attributes="member: 55864">The DND level of abstraction allows for both and so it comes down to adjudication, by you, the DM. And a good rule of thumb: if it seems fun and makes sense to ya then run with it. You may feel the urge to say this should always the case, but I wouldn't, some factor may affect bleeding in certain cases and some wounds would bleed worse than others. The DC will generally account for this, maybe use the lower DC because you imagine him stumbling injured, bleed profusely, not being cautious... And is easy to track.It is the DM who set the tone for the game, not the rules. The level of abstraction is irrelevant as a good, imaginative, DM can make anything make sense and that is what I focus on.* That's my take on it. And I think if one of my players said that they were looking for a blood trail I'd probably run with it and allow them to find blood splatter and use a lower DC than originally intended, but only to encourage player behaviour. You got to train them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />My 4e games are now reminding me of how I used to run my 2e games and that warms my cockles...* I'm not implying that I'm a good DM or an imaginative one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vagabundo, post: 4774578, member: 55864"] The DND level of abstraction allows for both and so it comes down to adjudication, by you, the DM. And a good rule of thumb: if it seems fun and makes sense to ya then run with it. You may feel the urge to say this should always the case, but I wouldn't, some factor may affect bleeding in certain cases and some wounds would bleed worse than others. The DC will generally account for this, maybe use the lower DC because you imagine him stumbling injured, bleed profusely, not being cautious... And is easy to track. It is the DM who set the tone for the game, not the rules. The level of abstraction is irrelevant as a good, imaginative, DM can make anything make sense and that is what I focus on.* That's my take on it. And I think if one of my players said that they were looking for a blood trail I'd probably run with it and allow them to find blood splatter and use a lower DC than originally intended, but only to encourage player behaviour. You got to train them. :D My 4e games are now reminding me of how I used to run my 2e games and that warms my cockles... * I'm not implying that I'm a good DM or an imaginative one. [/QUOTE]

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