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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lacyon" data-source="post: 4154114" data-attributes="member: 63046">No, you need all that training to get a game effect of "loses X hp per round" or "cuts speed in half". Any hit that we want to describe as being in the leg is. We just don't muck about with "fiddly bits" such as continued hp loss or speed decreases unless someone has a game effect that describes it in a neat, packaged way.I just don't need to roll that many extra dice, or learn that many extra rules, just to model game mechanically every detail of an attack. For most attacks, we assume the loss of blood is already factored into the hp damage the attack first did. For most attacks that don't disable the target, we assume they didn't sever any important muscles - if they did, a more "realistic" model to me is that most of the time, that guy who just got his artery severed isn't in the fight anymore.Sure. My players don't have to rely on me to tell them everything either. Heck, for all I care, each and every one of them can imagine the hit differently and we can just stick to game terminology of "hits" "misses" and "hp damage".I'm not trying to sell you on D&D here, you seem pretty happy with what you've got and I'm glad of it. I only take issue with things like "D&D characters can't stop a Hobgoblin from moving past them" when they clearly can.</blockquote>