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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff Carlsen" data-source="post: 6257262" data-attributes="member: 61749">Hit Points are a combination of physical damage and other factors. For the most part, there is agreement on this. There are few who treat hit points as entirely meat or entirely non-meat. Disagreement tends to revolve around whether damage or healing can be entirely non-meat. Personally, I think it's best if damage and healing always contain a physical component to them, and prior to 4E, this was probably the common perception. D&D Next is providing various options to healing rates, which will lead each group to establishing the ratio of meat to non-meat for themselves.Damage on a miss is more difficult to reconcile, because it deals with the nature of the attack roll.Traditionally, an attack roll represents a period of fighting, and success and failure determine if you successfully deal damage. The nature of that damage is ambiguous. The result is a consistent level of abstraction.Damage on a Miss makes attack rolls slightly less abstract by trying to simulate particular aspects of the attack without also making defense less abstract at the same time. The way the rules can reconcile this difference is to limit these effects to part of one or more weapon and armor modules. Perhaps as a module that introduces touch AC and lesser effects for attacks that meet it. Similar modules could include weapon speed, combat fatigue, and moral. Then a group can decide between abstraction and complexity.</blockquote>

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