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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7904282" data-attributes="member: 4937">I tend to prefer hit point based systems, but I can totally understand why they would annoy some people. While you can usually do some plausible mapping between hit point loss and in fiction wound creation, there are always edge cases where that isn't easy and in particular, the lack of a strong mechanical connection between the fortune and the fictional wound creation means that this mapping is only flavor. You lose the potential of cinematic creation of fiction through the system, and you lose a tight coupling between the fictional wound and in the in game fiction. That is to say, in an hit point system, I can narrate the production of wounds however I want, but if we finish a session and come back a week later, and a player sees that he's lost 35 hit points, because that represents no concrete wounding, all the player really knows is that he's 35 hit points down and his fictional positioning (what wounds he's supposedly received) is lost and never really mattered anyway.So I get it.&nbsp; I really do.&nbsp; It's just that hit points seems like the dumbest system of all time until you actually use all the other systems out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7904282, member: 4937"] I tend to prefer hit point based systems, but I can totally understand why they would annoy some people. While you can usually do some plausible mapping between hit point loss and in fiction wound creation, there are always edge cases where that isn't easy and in particular, the lack of a strong mechanical connection between the fortune and the fictional wound creation means that this mapping is only flavor. You lose the potential of cinematic creation of fiction through the system, and you lose a tight coupling between the fictional wound and in the in game fiction. That is to say, in an hit point system, I can narrate the production of wounds however I want, but if we finish a session and come back a week later, and a player sees that he's lost 35 hit points, because that represents no concrete wounding, all the player really knows is that he's 35 hit points down and his fictional positioning (what wounds he's supposedly received) is lost and never really mattered anyway. So I get it. I really do. It's just that hit points seems like the dumbest system of all time until you actually use all the other systems out there. [/QUOTE]

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