How much blood in a hp?

[Andor]

How big a prick does it take to equal a point of damage?

Suppose you prick your finger on a pin and squeeze out a drop of blood, does that constitute 1 hp of damage? Slash a finger? Chop off a finger? What level of wound takes the average man 1/4th of the way towards death?

Discuss.

 

[Piratecat]

Hmm. I think you get five minutes to edit this, before I do it for you. . .

 

[Andor]

Spoilsport.

 

[Piratecat]

Heh. It was right on the line leaning over, slipping, slipping...

Thanks.

 

[Sejs]

How big a prick does it take to equal a point of damage?

Suppose you prick your finger on a pin and squeeze out a drop of blood, does that constitute 1 hp of damage? Slash a finger? Chop off a finger? What level of wound takes the average man 1/4th of the way towards death?

Discuss.

More than a pinprick. A single hp would still need to indicate what would seem in the real world a reasonably noteworthy injury.

To use the old housecat/commoner thing - a housecat can deal a single point of damage with an attack. In the real world that would translate to getting scratched up badly by said cat; not little knicks or cuts, but the kind where the little bastard took a strip off of you and the cut's edges are curdling away. That's your one hit point of damage representation. The little knicks and scratches are cosmetic - they're not in any way dangerous. Functionally they represent misses.

 

[Simm]

In UA the tainted sorcerer requires blood as a material component in all spells. A minor knife cut is described as being able to draw the 1hp required for most spells.

 

[Aaron L]

I personally think that the bare minimum requirement for a loss of hit points doesn't even require blood being spilled. It could be a significant bruise or a pulled muscle or tendon; anything that will slow you down and make you less able to dodge the next attack.

 

[Vigilance]

8.92 ml

 

[el-remmen]

Well in my dueling house rules, fighting to "first blood" equates the first hit that does 10% or more of your current hit points by itself.

 

[Land Outcast]

anything that will slow you down and make you less able to dodge the next attack.

Commoner lvl 1; hp 4/4; AC 10
Commoner lvl 1; hp 1/4; AC 10