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<blockquote data-quote="spinozajack" data-source="post: 6620447" data-attributes="member: 6794198">Says who? Not the rules. When you lose over half your HP, you do show visible signs of bleeding and injury. And the only logical way that could have happened, given that the immediate cause of that loss of HP was an attack with that axe that hit your character, is because the attack actually landed. I don't know why people insist on playing the game in such a silly way, but you're welcome to do that. However you aren't actually narrating HP loss according to the rules if you think characters never get injured unless they are killed. That is not what's happening in D&amp;D combat. When your character falls down the stairs or into a pit trap and comes within an inch of his life, barely conscious, do you imagine that nothing touched him? Quite a trick, avoiding the rapidly approaching ground slamming against him like that. Maybe he's flying, so he didn't actually fall, and so didn't touch the ground, and so his HP loss didn't result because the ground mangled his body.If that's how you imagine the game, go ahead, but I've never once met someone, at any table who imagines their PCs never getting physically injured unless they dropped to 0 HP.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spinozajack, post: 6620447, member: 6794198"] Says who? Not the rules. When you lose over half your HP, you do show visible signs of bleeding and injury. And the only logical way that could have happened, given that the immediate cause of that loss of HP was an attack with that axe that hit your character, is because the attack actually landed. I don't know why people insist on playing the game in such a silly way, but you're welcome to do that. However you aren't actually narrating HP loss according to the rules if you think characters never get injured unless they are killed. That is not what's happening in D&D combat. When your character falls down the stairs or into a pit trap and comes within an inch of his life, barely conscious, do you imagine that nothing touched him? Quite a trick, avoiding the rapidly approaching ground slamming against him like that. Maybe he's flying, so he didn't actually fall, and so didn't touch the ground, and so his HP loss didn't result because the ground mangled his body. If that's how you imagine the game, go ahead, but I've never once met someone, at any table who imagines their PCs never getting physically injured unless they dropped to 0 HP. [/QUOTE]

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