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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bad Paper" data-source="post: 2943330" data-attributes="member: 24674">I started a system in my campaign of green/yellow/red, which is basically when the bad guy's hit points are in the top third, middle third, or bottom third of his total.  I can mislead the players occasionally by:1) not being exactly accurate, ha ha, typically with "yellow" having more bandwidth, and2) e.g. if a bad guy drinks a potion of bear's endurance and the PCs see him go from "yellow" to "green," they think he drank a potion of healingI've gotten irritated so many times by my players trying to Spellcraft the casting (rather than the effect) of a spell-like ability or supernatural ability, that I have pretty much trained them only to roll Spellcraft when I say the words "...casts a spell..."I have tried to train them to recognize Damage Reduction by saying "his flesh is as hard as wood," etc, but that just confuses them and they think they're fighting a golem or something.  {why is there no eye-roll smiley?}I tend to not clue them in too much to energy resistance, or to blur its boundary with energy immunity.  I tend to indicate whether bad guy made his save, though.I think there's only one player who understands the difference between regeneration and fast healing, so I don't run into that question.  I get a lot of "You're cheating" from my players, simply because my knowledge of the rules is encyclopaedic  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> , and theirs tends to be field-guide.  I let the one player who understands the difference explain it to them when necessary.The party's cleric has started to memorize and cast Status, so the how-you-doin' question is more meaningful and legal.As for the stabilized-or-not question, the players are good at assuming "not," and the cleric is quite responsive, so for the most part, they don't cheat so much.</blockquote>

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