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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 5814029" data-attributes="member: 31646">I consider that a feature not a bug. Sticking with the HP is dodging, bruised etc idea. 2 separate wound tracks mid encounter is a bookkeeping nightmare. Anyone who tried some of the old grim and gritty rules can probably attest to that. imagine, you get hit critically, lose some con as a result. Now you have to take off HP, take off CON, re-adjust HP for the CON loss etc. It opens you up to silly issues as well. I remember a gritty 3e wizard in a game I played in with these rules. Guy had rolled fairly badly most levels for HP and as a result had about 3 HP per level. Minute he had gotten down to 4 CON he was hurt to the point where he had no HP left to recover because the CON loss had adjusted them all away. we wound up ruling that he was in a coma until his CON recovered enough to get HP's back but it was a serious hassle for the rest of us to drag his body back up through the whole dungeon and get him someplace to rest. Penalizing both at the same time can wind up being way too deadly to PC's.</blockquote>