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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6655536" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I call nonsense. Hit points don't objectively exist within AD&D. They are not a characteristic of individuals in the narrative fiction of the game universe. This is explicitly covered in the descriptions in both 1e and 2e PHB and DMG, which I will not even bother to repeat here as you must have read them (or maybe you need to do so). Hit points reflect luck, skill, divine intervention, and sometimes innate toughness. So, objectively the creatures in an AD&D game have those characteristics, they are simply abstracted into a hit point number. Since hit points do not exist, they cannot be said to be innate to a creature and any given creature might potentially evince different hit point totals under different conditions. The same could be said of other attributes. </p><p></p><p>Now, as I said above, in AD&D's mechanics nobody had ever really thought to build different versions of monsters. However, I HAVE seen the same NPC given both a character sheet and a monster stat block. I've also seen characters, even PCs, given both D&D stat blocks, Battlesystem stats, and Chainmail stats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6655536, member: 82106"] I call nonsense. Hit points don't objectively exist within AD&D. They are not a characteristic of individuals in the narrative fiction of the game universe. This is explicitly covered in the descriptions in both 1e and 2e PHB and DMG, which I will not even bother to repeat here as you must have read them (or maybe you need to do so). Hit points reflect luck, skill, divine intervention, and sometimes innate toughness. So, objectively the creatures in an AD&D game have those characteristics, they are simply abstracted into a hit point number. Since hit points do not exist, they cannot be said to be innate to a creature and any given creature might potentially evince different hit point totals under different conditions. The same could be said of other attributes. Now, as I said above, in AD&D's mechanics nobody had ever really thought to build different versions of monsters. However, I HAVE seen the same NPC given both a character sheet and a monster stat block. I've also seen characters, even PCs, given both D&D stat blocks, Battlesystem stats, and Chainmail stats. [/QUOTE]
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