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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5935364" data-attributes="member: 22779">Hang on.&nbsp; Wait... what?&nbsp; Who's saying hit points NEVER represent wounds or that a hit is NEVER a hit?What is being said is that a hit MIGHT be a hit or it might not.&nbsp; Depends on what's going on in the game.However, you are stating, quite emphatically, that a hit MUST ALWAYS be a physical hit.&nbsp; That is, I think, what is being objected to.AFAIK, no one is saying that hit points can never be physical wounds.&nbsp; That would be reasonably easy to show - after all, every definition of hit points includes that option.&nbsp; However, there is nothing precluding the OPTION of a hit not actually making contact and providing a wound.Of course, we can get really, really nit picky and talk about &quot;nicks and scratches&quot; but, that gets wobbly too.&nbsp; No one ever dies from nicks and scratches.&nbsp; Yet, somehow, I can be nicked and scratched to death?&nbsp; Well no.&nbsp; Whenever that blow drops you below zero hit points, you KNOW that it connected somehow.But, that's the only time you can definitively say that it did.&nbsp; Any other time, you can't prove it either way.Then again, I have a sneaking suspicion that Mercurio01 isn't listening to me, so this is going to fall on deaf ears.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5935364, member: 22779"] Hang on. Wait... what? Who's saying hit points NEVER represent wounds or that a hit is NEVER a hit? What is being said is that a hit MIGHT be a hit or it might not. Depends on what's going on in the game. However, you are stating, quite emphatically, that a hit MUST ALWAYS be a physical hit. That is, I think, what is being objected to. AFAIK, no one is saying that hit points can never be physical wounds. That would be reasonably easy to show - after all, every definition of hit points includes that option. However, there is nothing precluding the OPTION of a hit not actually making contact and providing a wound. Of course, we can get really, really nit picky and talk about "nicks and scratches" but, that gets wobbly too. No one ever dies from nicks and scratches. Yet, somehow, I can be nicked and scratched to death? Well no. Whenever that blow drops you below zero hit points, you KNOW that it connected somehow. But, that's the only time you can definitively say that it did. Any other time, you can't prove it either way. Then again, I have a sneaking suspicion that Mercurio01 isn't listening to me, so this is going to fall on deaf ears. [/QUOTE]

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