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<blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 6290396" data-attributes="member: 2656">For players to make plausible decisions for their PC, they need to know some idea of their health, either in or out of character, and have permission to chose actions based on that knowledge. I sincerely doubt many people advocate that PCs know their actual hit point total in-character, rather that they have some idea of their health and can discover the relative toughness of their foes with experience -&nbsp; sufficient knowledge that they can make tactical and strategic decisions without a blindfold.This knowledge and&nbsp; approval to act on it can be in-character, out-of-character or some combination thereof. Hit points are an abstract concept, and people have come up with lots of different competing ways to rationalise them, and describe their loss and recovery. These competing ways are very subjective and the various interpretations can result in different outcomes, and support competing design goals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aenghus, post: 6290396, member: 2656"] For players to make plausible decisions for their PC, they need to know some idea of their health, either in or out of character, and have permission to chose actions based on that knowledge. I sincerely doubt many people advocate that PCs know their actual hit point total in-character, rather that they have some idea of their health and can discover the relative toughness of their foes with experience - sufficient knowledge that they can make tactical and strategic decisions without a blindfold. This knowledge and approval to act on it can be in-character, out-of-character or some combination thereof. Hit points are an abstract concept, and people have come up with lots of different competing ways to rationalise them, and describe their loss and recovery. These competing ways are very subjective and the various interpretations can result in different outcomes, and support competing design goals. [/QUOTE]

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