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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 5961129" data-attributes="member: 11300">Thanks for that. I have to admit that I like a certain amount of complexity in things. Once I've got this thing nutted out, I'm sure it can be streamlined down somewhat.In my opinion, terminology is one of the finest things to quibble about. So please, quibble away... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Originally when I put this together, I called the two pools Combat Points and Wound Points. The unifying feature was that both pools were measured in hit points. The hit point being the unit of measure. A single hit point has a value of taking 1 day to typically heal (or if not completely heal, no longer impact the capacity of the character). A 3hp wound takes three days to heal. A 17hp wound takes 17 days to heal.Now by turning hit points into purely a unit of measure, there is less confusion in terms of confusing hit points with combat or wound points.Anyway, the valid question you still ask is what happens when a player asks for the state of my character? With which total do you reply? With hit(combat) points independent of wound points, and with specific wounds determined, I think you can be informative while staying within the parameters of in-campaign knowledge. I think you would focus on the wounds rather than the hit/combat points.For example, using Sir Arryn above with his 6 wp ankle wound and 2 wp generic wound:You can see Sir Arryn's heavily favouring his left ankle and seems to be a little stiff. In meta-knowledge, you're kind of saying he has suffered two wounds, one light and the other moderate.I think you could almost equate the four types of wounds as: * Light: 4 wps or less. * Moderate: 8 wps or less. * Serious: 16 wps or less. * Critical: Greater than 16 wps. And thus a Cure Light Wounds Ritual (perhaps takes an hour to easily perform and complete at an appropriate material component cost), will completely heal (as in no scars or visible signs) a Light wound but has no or minimal effect on more serious wounds. A Cure Critical Wounds Ritual (perhaps takes 8 hours to perform with a significant material component cost and is quite taxing and difficult to perform) can completely heal any single wound. As a sidenote, a character that has suffered a wound is technically bloodied and could be reasonably described as such (or as a condition that may activate certain qualities or capacity of the character).With this knowledge, communicating your character's health in terms of wounds is effectively facilitated.Now the question then becomes, how does a characters hit/combat points affect the description? If a character is fatigued or exhausted (as I detail in my 2nd big response to Pemerton), then I suggest a capping of hit points at a half or quarter respectively. In this situation, it would be obvious if a character is fatigued and thus such condition is easily verbalized. If a character had full hit points, then you would say they looked fresh where as if they has zero or close to, you would describe them as looking spent. How you describe some of the more metaphysical aspects of hit points can be quite interesting. In my original post on this thread, I suggested a possible morale cap (half hit points) if the player wanted to mechanically represent a grieving character (perhaps their love interest had passed away). This represents them being distracted, listless and depressed. In turn, they may have the capacity for emotional bursts of venting action where appropriate. In such a way, such situations can be given mechanical heft as well as roleplaying weight. Anyway, such a character would be perceived as grieving with the mechanical understanding that their hit points are somewhat hampered. The cap would be removed after a set period of grieving. [This could possibly act as a pre-requisite for a certain feat or even a possible theme?]I suppose in essence, I prefer in-campaign dialogue for such things rather than more obvious metagame knowledge and discussion when doing in-campaign things; even if (and particularly if) such in-campaign dialogue is informative and easily translatable back into meta-knowledge.Best RegardsHerremann the Wise</blockquote>

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