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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5934953" data-attributes="member: 73683">That's not what I'm saying at all, and it's weird that you've decided to see it that way.What I'm saying is that the game of D&D defines - and has defined, for literally decades now - certain terms according to certain guidelines. If you choose to reject those definitions, as you have clearly been doing, it seems silly to imagine that the game will continue to function optimally. In other words, you've been told what the game assumes in terms of how hit points work. You have rejected those assumptions, and then complain that in that rejection you have lost immersion. Well of course you have.D&D is not a magic box that can be anything you want it to be equally well. It is a game, and it has its strong points, its not-so-strong points, its focuses, its areas that are glossed over, and it actually takes stands on some important gameplay issues. The idea that D&D can be all things to all people is a bad idea, and one that is not grounded in reality. It isn't possible to play D&D wrong (since right and wrong are issues of morality and really have no place here) but it is very possible to play D&D in a way that is contrary to the stated intentions of its design.That's not what the rules say. The rules say that hit points can represent any of those things, but it says nothing about every hit point representing every one of those simultaneously, and it certainly doesn't say that every hit point must represent a physical injury of some sort. That's your personal take on hit points, and it is not reflected in the game's design or in the game's evolving explanation of what hit points are.Now, you're free to argue that hit points should be physical wounds, but that's a harder argument because there's really no support for it as far as I can tell; it's just an opinion, with nothing concrete in terms of value-added to gameplay that isn't just as adequately applied in the opposite direction.</blockquote>

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