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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7169129" data-attributes="member: 996">Heh.  "We know the rules:  there are no rules."  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Seriously, though, I'm not saying the rules don't say that, I'm saying the rules don't dictate that a particular hit is necessarily 'stabbed in the stomach,' what hp damage means is non-deterministic in D&D.  If I'm playing Fantasy Hero, with hit locations in use, hit with a spear, and roll, I think it was a 12, that'd be a killing attack to the stomach, which'd be pretty nasty if the target isn't wearing armor on that location - that's the rule, it's 'deterministic:' hit location 12 = stomach.   In D&D, if I attack with a spear & hit, I do some hp damage, for the sake of typing something, let's say 8.  That's it, where I hit, or even if the 'hit' actually touched him, just bruised him through armor, or made him bleed, is all up to the DM to describe, with very little guidance, and no mechanical consequences, and none of that's determined by the rule.  The point is that no one can argue that a spear doing 8 hps of damage is 'unrealistic' or 'wrong' or 'badly models genre' /because getting stabbed in the stomach doesn't map to 8 hps of damage/.  Because the rules say 8hps, not 'stabbed in the stomach.'  If the DM narrates it as something you think doesn't fit, you can take it up with the DM, but the rules are insulated from criticism on that level.  FWIW (nothing, I'm guess'n).</blockquote>

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