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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 5935271" data-attributes="member: 37277">Thanks for the clarification. The word "naive" is often used as denigration.In any case, here's the closest thing to a definition of a hit point that OD&D provides. It's in the third LBB, page 35.HEALING WOUNDS: As noted previously, energy levels can only be regained by fresh experience, but common wounds can be healed with the passage of time (or the use of magics already explained). On the first day of complete rest no hit points will be regained, but every other day thereafter one hit point will be regained until the character is completely healed. This can take a long time.Which, to me, clearly indicates that hits provide wounds.EDITED to add: But I think those who insist on hits that don't actually hit will obviously stick with the 1E definition, since that's the Gary they choose to believe. And that's fine, but it's a fallacy to suggest that hits have never meant hits (only 2 editions seem to support that definition - 1E and 4E, and even 4E has recommendations for narrating a hit as a hit). I'd be willing to bet that 1E's DMG has similar advice for describing combat, but I don't have that handy. (The older games like Basic and OD&D I bought after my move, and thus are not in storage.)</blockquote>