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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7880724" data-attributes="member: 58197">My solution to that has been to say that every hit point contains some &quot;meat,&quot; but how much varies by character. If your PC has 150 hit points, each of your hit points is maybe five percent &quot;meat&quot; and ninety-five percent &quot;intangible defense factor.&quot; Anything that deals damage to you has connected and caused some actual harm, but if you only took 1 point of damage, the harm is on the level of a paper cut.For a character with 5 hit points, they're almost entirely &quot;meat,&quot; and a hit for 1 point of damage is a real, painful injury (though not a crippling one, since you can keep fighting unimpeded).This does not address the weirdnesses of both magical and nonmagical healing; as I mentioned previously, the hit point system is grossly unrealistic on many many levels, and at some point you have to just shrug and live with it. But it gives me as narrator a way to steer between the Scylla of &quot;The game says you were 'hit' and you will need to 'heal' but you were actually missed and are not injured at all&quot; and the Charybdis of &quot;You can be impaled through the liver 5 times in one day and go for a jog afterward.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7880724, member: 58197"] My solution to that has been to say that every hit point contains [I]some[/I] "meat," but how much varies by character. If your PC has 150 hit points, each of your hit points is maybe five percent "meat" and ninety-five percent "intangible defense factor." Anything that deals damage to you has connected and caused [I]some[/I] actual harm, but if you only took 1 point of damage, the harm is on the level of a paper cut. For a character with 5 hit points, they're almost entirely "meat," and a hit for 1 point of damage is a real, painful injury (though not a crippling one, since you can keep fighting unimpeded). This does not address the weirdnesses of both magical and nonmagical healing; as I mentioned previously, the hit point system is grossly unrealistic on many many levels, and at some point you have to just shrug and live with it. But it gives me as narrator a way to steer between the Scylla of "The game says you were 'hit' and you will need to 'heal' but you were actually missed and are not injured at all" and the Charybdis of "You can be impaled through the liver 5 times in one day and go for a jog afterward." [/QUOTE]

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