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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5928144" data-attributes="member: 21169">Here's another idea.Rpg-ers like to think of hit points as representing real physical wounds. Now I know Gary Gygax said they don't but, honestly, I don't think many people took that on board.But, we don't want the PCs to be out of the action for long, *and* we don't want to be reliant on having a healer in the party because, in many groups, no one wants to play the healer.Solution? Hit points are real. PCs get badly wounded - open wounds, broken bones, etc - just how we think of someone on low hit points. The very next day they're fine. But here's the clever bit - no one mentions it. Everyone in the game world just ignores this weirdness. It's like the way characters in genre fiction are genre-blind, for example no one in a horror film says, "This is just like being in a horror film!"Admittedly it would have a Looney Tunes vibe, but I think it's fine because it's played straight, not for laughs.</blockquote>