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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 850521" data-attributes="member: 5948">For the other Star Wars GMs out there (or GMs for othere VP/WP systems), a question.  When a PC is hit, how do you describe vitality point loss?  I try to get away from the dead boring 'he hits, you take 7 VP' things and actually describe what happens.  I've explained it at various times as grazing misses, being singed by the blaster bolt, arms painfully jarred while parrying the lightsaber cut, and so on, but I'm really starting to run out of ideas.  But system-wise, a clean miss is a clean miss, and a solid hit does WP damage, so my options are a little limited.  How do you describe VP loss while keeping things dramatic?</blockquote>