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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6011971" data-attributes="member: 996">Falling and CdG/SA should just go to hps.  CdG/SA are just attacks, and luck can be a big factor.  Falling, likewise, you can fall a short distance (slip in the shower) and die instantly, you can fall a long distance and miraculously survive.  Hps exist, in part, to model the way protagonists tend towards miraculous survival, in general.  <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=";)" />Things like disease, starvation, thirst, longer-term toxins, and debilitating injuries could certainly be modeled with something behind hps.  Preferably not some alternate abstract numeric total, though, but a disability track that models the penalties and limitations imposed by the condition as it progresses (be it getting better or worse).Level Drain is an oddity of the classic game and doesn't really model much of anything.  Energy Drain could be just hps damage, or it could be a condition (like ongoing damage or weakened) or a longer-term affliction like diseases &c. Bottom line, for me:  HPs are 'plot armor,' they should work to help PCs survive the kinds of deadly threats and insane risks that are par for the course in heroic fiction and legend - and that's just about anything. What hps lack is any way of modeling disability, and you do see heroes in genre struggling against disabling wounds, curses, and other circumstance, even if they generally are able to overcome them just long enough to do something heroic at the critical moment.  Some sort of system to model disabling afflictions would be good.Oh, and I'll also chime in as against any sort of wounds/vitality system, it just creates two kinds of hps, one of which ends up not mattering.</blockquote>

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