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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8757808" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I'm having a hard time understanding what you are trying to argue.  Gygax as I read him very clearly states both that hit points represent both meat and non-meat.  Gygax doesn't attempt to explain exactly what percentage of those hit points at every level come from the variety of possible sources he suggests, but he does suggest that they come from both and does suggest that a high level character that has taken damage is in fact covered with a large number of minor injuries that will require healing.  As I read the passage, Gygax is clearly refuting both the "all meat" and "no meat" interpretation.  Yet, after I quote the whole thing to some people and indeed after they quote it back to me, they'll claim that in that package Gygax is endorsing that hit points aren't meat at all.  I don't think all of them are gas lighting me when they claim that, so that leaves me without an explanation for how they read it and no way to reason with them or they with me.</p></blockquote><p></p>