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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7847255" data-attributes="member: 82106">Just my, probably marginally useful, commentary. I think there are 2 basically disjoint things here. First is the game and it's rules, second is the narrative. In rules terms HP represent a fairly abstract assessment of 'nearness to defeat'. Any factor related to that could be reflected as 'damage'. All versions of d&d are fuzzy here because they have other measures as well. 4e has conditions and effects for example. There is also inevitably fictional position as well.Fiction/narrative is its own thing. There must be some concordance with mechanics to produce outcomes we expect but the nature of the coupling depends on goals, taste, style, etc. You can't discuss hit points in a vacuum. You can't even generalize across editions really.</blockquote>