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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 8241315" data-attributes="member: 63">I work at a medical library and look at a lot of medical textbooks in my job, and just kind of generally like studying health and dying. There are very few role-playing games where injury functions like in reality. I think the recent legend of the five rings game had a pretty good model where you had stamina to avoid being hurt, but then if you were hit you were going to suffer injury.Even if you are delimmed and begin quickly bleeding out, you simply pass out after a round or two, but don't die for several more minutes because, well, magic exists. And magic can restore things even better than modern medicine can. And we can already bring go back after they are sort of technically dead for a few minutes.To me, having people die at negative 10 hit points is too simplistic. Having someone die from a couple death saves is also too simplistic. I prefer having zero hit points represent an inability to fight, but remaining conscious vaguely. Then as you fail saves or drop lower, you pass out, but it's still possible to bring someone back to the break of death for quite a while.</blockquote>