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<blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 7831573" data-attributes="member: 16077">Again, I ask why do the same hp represent different things for NPCs vs PCs? &quot;Because they are heroic&quot; just doesn't hold any water unless you also make the conceit that everyone other than the PCs are just window dressing in world that is static until the PCs are on stage.For those of us who have played and DMed for decades, hit points didn't just get restored so easily.&nbsp; Without magical healing, when you hit exactly 0 hp, you were lights out and bleeding out&nbsp; until you hit -10 hp and death. If you got treatment before getting to -10 you still required a week's rest.&nbsp; Get knocked from 1 hp down to -1 hp (or any attack taking you from +hp into -hp)?&nbsp; Death, no save. The rest of the session was spent finding someone to raise dead or resurrect you or the reserve characters got broken out.That older way of handling hp is actually a better model of reality than how it is done in 4e or 5e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="3catcircus, post: 7831573, member: 16077"] Again, I ask why do the same hp represent different things for NPCs vs PCs? "Because they are heroic" just doesn't hold any water unless you also make the conceit that everyone other than the PCs are just window dressing in world that is static until the PCs are on stage. For those of us who have played and DMed for decades, hit points [I]didn't[/I] just get restored so easily. Without magical healing, when you hit [I]exactly[/I] 0 hp, you were lights out and bleeding out until you hit -10 hp and death. If you got treatment before getting to -10 you still required a week's rest. Get knocked from 1 hp down to -1 hp (or any attack taking you from +hp into -hp)? Death, no save. The rest of the session was spent finding someone to raise dead or resurrect you or the reserve characters got broken out. That older way of handling hp is actually a better model of reality than how it is done in 4e or 5e. [/QUOTE]

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