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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 3775078" data-attributes="member: 54877">Monte Cook had a post on his journal about his splitting hit points 50/50. This wasn't intended to have any mechanical effect, but merely aid description.  The top half would be luck, heroic capability, etc.  Drop below half, you actually started taking damage.  I think the 50/50 split is simply for ease of use.You could extend that idea to be more formal, though.  The top half hit points can be used to avoid things.  You burn through these pretty fast, but on the other hand, you get them back fast, too.  Maybe you don't even need a spell to get them back fast.  The bottom half are actual damage, and heal slowly, absent magic.The key to making that work in the heroic D&D sense is not to go the wounds/vitality route.  For sure, don't provide a way to bypass the upper half and do damage from criticals.  It's simply that the top half of your hit points have more uses than the bottom half.</blockquote>