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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7882958" data-attributes="member: 6801228">The superhero part of this had me thinking about an example of what we mean. Batman comic opens up with Batman taking down a series of goons, one gets a lucky shot and shoots the Bat. Next scene is in the Batcave, with Batman bandaging his wound. Then the plot starts, and Batman is likely jumping and fighting and reacting in ways that are unrealistic with a recent gunshot wound. Unless the wound is the point of the plot. And, likely the villain might punch him in that spot a few times, but that is usually not the first blow the villain lands, but a 3rd act crisis in the fight scene. Oh no, that wound from before has entered play because it wasn't relevant before. This is what we mean by "Action Movie" style wounds. Yes, the hero is wounded, yes, they don't "recover" by the end of the day. But, it doesn't seem to bother them. They shake it off, and keep going as though they weren't wounded. Because the wounds are no longer plot relevant. It is definetly not realistic, and it often gets panned and mocked in media, but it still happens. Because getting wounded is dramatic, but recovering is slow, and the movie/comic/ect needs to be fast-pacedEdit: Huh, you say pretty much exactly this on the next page.I can see that as a missed opportunity, but I think it is a case of a small sacrifice for a greater good. Yes, it is much harder to give a player an injury that will lay up their characters and prevent them from adventuring for a week or more. It is also much harder for an unplanned for event or miscalculated monster to throw the entire plot out of whack because the players are all hiding in town trying to recover instead of finishing the adventure. Yes, players no longer die from poison instantly (I think that was an AD&D thing? It was in the floopy disc games I played) but, players are no longer going to arbitrarily die to a single bad roll from a single weak monster (Giant Centipedes were the worst in those games. I would face dozens of them, and a single bad luck roll could kill even my high level characters. And I had no connection to them compared to a character at the table). And so on. Yes, we lose out on scenes like from the Dark Knight, where Batman is in the pit recovering as Bane rules the city and drives Gotham to chaos. But considering this is a team game, it is a minor loss in my book. And one I can add back in with various houserules.</blockquote>

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