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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4445627" data-attributes="member: 1003">I've been saying for quite some time that Hit Points should really be called &quot;Awesome Points&quot;, because they're a measure of just how awesome you are.But Moxie works too.And by a &quot;sound hit&quot; you mean if you roll 32 dmg? What if you roll a 1 and they still die? Does that make you feel like a hero?I quoted you above just to make clear we don't disagree on what HP are. We agree on that. Where we part ways is on whether or not it's okay for some people to have an integer between 1 and &lt;infinite&gt; for that value and others to have a null value there. I (and Wyrmshadows, Exploder Wizard, and others) say it's not okay. It really bothers us. Creatures with apparent life, breath and the ability to attack you but no Moxie are like creatures with height and weight but no momentum or inertia. It's just weird, and it sticks out like a sore thumb to us.Dig it.I was actually thinking about this last year, back when WotC was releasing their new cosmology and cosmological history. I was thinking &quot;This is cool. But how do PCs fit in? What makes them PCs?&quot; I decided, just for myself, that if Primordials are the Supreme and Free Willed agents of the Elemental Chaos, and Gods are the Supreme and Free Willed agents of the Astral Plane, then Dragons must be the Supreme and Free Willed agents of the Prime Material.&nbsp; They tap into the Moxie of the Prime Material like nobody's business.But just like Astral has Angels, and the Elemental Chaos has Archons, the Prime Material has Heroes.&nbsp; They the mortal incarnation of the Prime Material's Moxie, and as they grow their power to tap into the Moxie of the Prime Material also grows. This is the source of both magic and magical-like martial exploits.Any time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 4445627, member: 1003"] I've been saying for quite some time that Hit Points should really be called "Awesome Points", because they're a measure of just how awesome you are. But Moxie works too. And by a "sound hit" you mean if you roll 32 dmg? What if you roll a 1 and they still die? Does that make you feel like a hero? I quoted you above just to make clear we don't disagree on what HP are. We agree on that. Where we part ways is on whether or not it's okay for some people to have an integer between 1 and <infinite> for that value and others to have a null value there. I (and Wyrmshadows, Exploder Wizard, and others) say it's not okay. It really bothers us. Creatures with apparent life, breath and the ability to attack you but no Moxie are like creatures with height and weight but no momentum or inertia. It's just weird, and it sticks out like a sore thumb to us. Dig it. I was actually thinking about this last year, back when WotC was releasing their new cosmology and cosmological history. I was thinking "This is cool. But how do PCs fit in? What makes them PCs?" I decided, just for myself, that if Primordials are the Supreme and Free Willed agents of the Elemental Chaos, and Gods are the Supreme and Free Willed agents of the Astral Plane, then Dragons must be the Supreme and Free Willed agents of the Prime Material. They tap into the Moxie of the Prime Material like nobody's business. But just like Astral has Angels, and the Elemental Chaos has Archons, the Prime Material has Heroes. They the mortal incarnation of the Prime Material's Moxie, and as they grow their power to tap into the Moxie of the Prime Material also grows. This is the source of both magic and magical-like martial exploits. Any time. [/QUOTE]

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