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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7602520" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Which game are you talking about?</p><p></p><p>I mean, there ARE games where this is arguably the case, BRP-based games like CoC and games like Traveler (which has only 'attribute damage') would be possible contenders. Even Dungeon World could be looked at in that light, though I would think it clashes with other aspects of its 'narrative over mechanics' design.</p><p></p><p>Certainly D&D, any edition, does NOT fall into this category at all! A sword blow against a level 1 PC is clearly most likely to represent a solid blow causing serious physical damage, if not outright death. I guess you could spin ANY non-lethal blow as 'luck and skill', but that seems a bit wrong when you start considering things like falling and poison damage. In any case, the situation when striking a PC with 48 hit points is clearly a lot different, as a sword blow in that case is not even close to lethal, and logically represents largely a sort of 'plot armor' being worn down. </p><p></p><p>I have no idea why 4e would be singled out as different here. Given the D&D paradigm, 4e is really quite structured in its approach, though you certainly will explain damage in many different narrative ways. This is not a new 'problem'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7602520, member: 82106"] Which game are you talking about? I mean, there ARE games where this is arguably the case, BRP-based games like CoC and games like Traveler (which has only 'attribute damage') would be possible contenders. Even Dungeon World could be looked at in that light, though I would think it clashes with other aspects of its 'narrative over mechanics' design. Certainly D&D, any edition, does NOT fall into this category at all! A sword blow against a level 1 PC is clearly most likely to represent a solid blow causing serious physical damage, if not outright death. I guess you could spin ANY non-lethal blow as 'luck and skill', but that seems a bit wrong when you start considering things like falling and poison damage. In any case, the situation when striking a PC with 48 hit points is clearly a lot different, as a sword blow in that case is not even close to lethal, and logically represents largely a sort of 'plot armor' being worn down. I have no idea why 4e would be singled out as different here. Given the D&D paradigm, 4e is really quite structured in its approach, though you certainly will explain damage in many different narrative ways. This is not a new 'problem'. [/QUOTE]
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