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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 7881442" data-attributes="member: 6787503">Anything that does damage can kill you. Even a punch that does one point of damage can kill you. The way the game decides whether that punch killed you or not is first, does it hit? And second, do you have only one hit point? If the answer is yes to both, you’re dead! (If you’re a PC, you also get some saving throws.) So calling it damage isn’t the problem. It’s clearly lethal stuff. On the other hand, I think hit points isn’t a good term for describing what they are. It’s derived from hit dice, which are the number of hits it takes to drop you. (Think d6 for all attacks and hit dice.) When you get hit, the damage uses up about one hit die worth of your hit points. And of course, when they’re all gone, you’re toast. So hit points are really just a measure of how much damage it takes to kill you. I think damage rating (DR) would be a good term for this. As you “take” damage, your damage rating decreases until just a small amount of damage can actually kill you. I also think calling them something like  indemnity points would work. As long as you have them, you are unhurt because you have indemnity. Once you loose your indemnity, however, there can be no doubt that you are damaged.</blockquote>