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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanog" data-source="post: 1229757" data-attributes="member: 10680">I agree with this, mostly. The system is a good one, in that 1) is is easy to work with; 2) is reasonable realistic for the heroic genre for which it is used; 3) is internally balanced.However, the concept of his points doesn't really jive with me, for some reason. High-level fighers can take dozens of full-force blows from sword and axes, because "their high hit points represent their ability to turn a grievous wound into a lesser one through dodging etc. This just seems so round-about for me. When my Fighter is at 35 hit point out of a total of 100, is he really injured? It just doesn't seem like he is, when you know that he can still take about five longsword in the gut and be okay.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />As an analogy, consider the following: In a certain campaign world, magic is a really tricky business. Every spell has a chance of failing, say of about 50%. Now let's chose the following rule to model this effect: "Wizards can only prepare half the spells they normally can. This is to represent that half their spells will fail."On average, the system would work well, and it's easier than throwing a die every time you cast a spell. But, it's less realistic and the concept of a spell loses its real, basic meaning. That's about the same thing that bugs me about hit points, basically.(Was this relevant for the discussion? I don't know. I think using armor as DR only works for gritty'er games, where a hit point really has a meaning in terms of a character's health. One blow, one wound. Armor as AC is, I think, intrinsically linked to the concept of suffering less serious wounds as you gain more levels.)Fanog</blockquote>

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