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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5827947" data-attributes="member: 54877">You can narrate it, often more realistically, as somewhat unknown.&nbsp; That arrow glanced off of your shoulder, which now is bleeding, but what it hit is still unsure until you get a chance to inspect it.&nbsp; All you know is that it hurts.&nbsp;Then with a decent supply of hit points, you mix several of these in.&nbsp; Since hit points are fungible, it doesn't matter which ones the warlord shouts out.&nbsp; For all you know, the hit points he is curing are the ones you lost the first round dancing around the orcs charge, not the later ones that were narrated as actual blows.&nbsp; If you narrate everything one way, you lose this flexibility.&nbsp; Admittedly, it is more balls to keep in the air, and if you get distracted, you might drop one.&nbsp; &quot;Hey, wait a minute, Bob got nothing but arrows to chest, and now you shout it out?&quot;&nbsp; For me, that's a call to get in the habit of varying my narration, which fortunately I did in 1981 because of the issue with hit points in Basic. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel&nbsp; &nbsp; :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5827947, member: 54877"] You can narrate it, often more realistically, as somewhat unknown. That arrow glanced off of your shoulder, which now is bleeding, but what it hit is still unsure until you get a chance to inspect it. All you know is that it hurts. Then with a decent supply of hit points, you mix several of these in. Since hit points are fungible, it doesn't matter which ones the warlord shouts out. For all you know, the hit points he is curing are the ones you lost the first round dancing around the orcs charge, not the later ones that were narrated as actual blows. If you narrate everything one way, you lose this flexibility. Admittedly, it is more balls to keep in the air, and if you get distracted, you might drop one. "Hey, wait a minute, Bob got nothing but arrows to chest, and now you shout it out?" For me, that's a call to get in the habit of varying my narration, which fortunately I did in 1981 because of the issue with hit points in Basic. :angel: [/QUOTE]

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