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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1475066" data-attributes="member: 6929">First paradigm: vitality/luck. Half hp feels like you've run half a mile (or longer, for you fit types) - you're still capable of moving out of the way of blows, but you're certainly not dancing like you did before. Barbarians and dwarves get to endure some more serious wounds in the mix too; after all, they just won't feel them, being built like treestumps.Second paradigm: my positive energy saturation model. Wherein hit points represent your body adapting to a high-magic adventuring lifestyle, and you become tougher than a treestump. In this model, half hp feels... itchy. You've got bruises, a few chips out of you perhaps, but you're not really suffering and it'll be a while yet before someone's capable of piercing your ablative layers and reaching your vulnerable organs. Especially at high level, arrows stick in your skin, flame leaves a black coating, and axes leave dink-marks on your flesh.</blockquote>