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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5955236" data-attributes="member: 2067">I don't know what you mean by "in the fiction."The fiction at the table is just what the DM describes, and this, like the 5e HP notation, gives the DM guidance on how to describe various injuries. Took an arrow to the knee? It's HP damage unless fate intervenes, in which case, it's not.It's an important distinction since, as you can plainly see, people have different ways that they conceive of this event.Inspiration heals Fate. Fate lets you fight on longer, since you can substitute it for HP and it comes back faster. If your buddy inspires you to fight on for longer, you're going to fight on for longer than if no one did that (if you use Fate).Dude, this is a design you can manifest in a hundred different ways.My fave? Aragorn has regen.Another? Aaragorn has a "Tenacious Destiny" ability that lets him fight on as long as he has Fate left, regardless of his HP. If you wanted every character to constantly be doing that, it's not difficult to put that into a Fate module.Oh, a third: You might also rule that Arwen being a magical mystical elfy maiden lady has a magical mystical elfy ability that magically mystically elfily gives him HP back. Kinda like how her pops had all that accelerated healing back in his villa upstate.There's more where that came from. Or you might be fine with the fact that narratives and games have different demands on their mechanics.You don't need to have inspiration recovering sword wounds to do this. D&D has had boars that fight on at negative HP since forever. There's no concept of an HP system in which that isn't somehow possible.Dude, they can deal HP damage. That's the distinction between It's Magic And Thus Deadly and It's Just a Word And Thus Not. You can do either one. You can do both at once, even. The system don't care. The systems like, "You want your metaphors to be absurdly physical. Mokay, boss, here's how."So...all your problems solved, and it's not even 5 pm. I bet this is your face right now:<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sKrVe-HmRVw/Tzs33I1cyNI/AAAAAAAABDU/57hNMC5xke8/s1600/happy-cat+1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Gonna go invent world peace, be back in an hour.</blockquote>

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