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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6863456" data-attributes="member: 6785785">So have a PC who may possibly be seen AND overheard make two stealth checks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />So do players in your game never use any kind of healing until past the 50% HP threshold? One thing I did in 2E that I miss a little bit is that for one campaign that I DMed, I kept track of all damage. I rolled damage to the PCs behind the screen, and kept track of their HP, and used only description to convey what happened to them with each hit, and where they were at overall. It created a very interesting dynamic because they were by no means certain how to allocate their healing resources. It resulted in some interesting situations. Ultimately I abandoned it because the bookkeeping aspect of it did not justify the slight increase in dramatic tension that it sometimes created. However, this discussion reminded me of that campaign because absent HP, I still had to explain to the players what was happening to their characters. I'd never have even thought to say nothing at all until they were at half HP. That seems like a very odd interpretation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 6863456, member: 6785785"] So have a PC who may possibly be seen AND overheard make two stealth checks. :P So do players in your game never use any kind of healing until past the 50% HP threshold? One thing I did in 2E that I miss a little bit is that for one campaign that I DMed, I kept track of all damage. I rolled damage to the PCs behind the screen, and kept track of their HP, and used only description to convey what happened to them with each hit, and where they were at overall. It created a very interesting dynamic because they were by no means certain how to allocate their healing resources. It resulted in some interesting situations. Ultimately I abandoned it because the bookkeeping aspect of it did not justify the slight increase in dramatic tension that it sometimes created. However, this discussion reminded me of that campaign because absent HP, I still had to explain to the players what was happening to their characters. I'd never have even thought to say nothing at all until they were at half HP. That seems like a very odd interpretation. [/QUOTE]

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