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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 6234925" data-attributes="member: 5889">I agree on both counts. I really liked the addition of the bloodied condition to the game. Both mechanically because it added a change midway in a creature's lifespan, and the flavor it invokes (I can say a creature is &quot;bloodied&quot; to let my players know how hurt something is...without having to go &quot;he's a little hurt, or a lot hurt&quot;).I would be fine if bloodied was reintroduced in 5e and used more aggressively. For example, you could say that injury poison only works on bloodied targets to massage that commonly cited flavor problem.That said, I completely agree that a death spiral is not appropriate to Dnd. It is perfectly fine for games that try to model combat more realistically and are generally gritty in nature...but dnd at its baseline is neither realistic nor gritty. Characters are expected to somewhat throw themselves into the jaws of death time and time again....and for that model HP works very well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 6234925, member: 5889"] I agree on both counts. I really liked the addition of the bloodied condition to the game. Both mechanically because it added a change midway in a creature's lifespan, and the flavor it invokes (I can say a creature is "bloodied" to let my players know how hurt something is...without having to go "he's a little hurt, or a lot hurt"). I would be fine if bloodied was reintroduced in 5e and used more aggressively. For example, you could say that injury poison only works on bloodied targets to massage that commonly cited flavor problem. That said, I completely agree that a death spiral is not appropriate to Dnd. It is perfectly fine for games that try to model combat more realistically and are generally gritty in nature...but dnd at its baseline is neither realistic nor gritty. Characters are expected to somewhat throw themselves into the jaws of death time and time again....and for that model HP works very well. [/QUOTE]

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