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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arch-Fiend" data-source="post: 7840189" data-attributes="member: 7016641">so this reply applies to both of your pointsD&D doesn't really know what it wants to be, it says HP is an abstraction, yet at the same time you have to HIT to deal DAMAGE to a character, and you can potentially HIT a character in a way that strikes a vital area resulting in a CRIT which does more damage, furthermore some monsters are immune to crits (at least in older editions they were, i don't know about 5e).the game and its players might argue that HP is an abstraction, but everything about how weapons work runs contrary to the idea that it doesn't do damage, especially when you consider poison, which has an contact and injury delivery system, and specifically injury only applies to piercing and slashing damage.D&D wants it both ways, and i don't know why, they would be better off simply saying that player characters are super-humans who can shrug off wounds that would be fatal to lesser mortals, because there;s LESS in this game that seems like hp is an abstraction of close calls than there is to imply hitpoints is health.</blockquote>