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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imp" data-source="post: 4103669" data-attributes="member: 40094">No, you completely can be, it's just that the effects aren't modeled in the game – it's possible, under the longtime D&D hit point model, to take a thrown knife to the belly at 1/2 your total hitpoints, stagger along for the rest of the fight or fights and what is presumably protecting you and enabling you to perform is your heroic will, luck, etc. and very few "meat points" – but you'll need to get treated or at least lay down for a good while after that, and barring that, it's going to hurt in the morning, which is the sort of narrative element that the pre-4e model allows if you want to use it. In 4e, you heal up overnight, or you use your healing surges in the morning (unless I've got the surge mechanics wrong) to do the same thing if the healing-up-overnight is houseruled to something less... which winds up being weird and I don't know how that would shake out in play.Certainly there is still a physical component to 4e hp as Doug McCrae says but it seems to allow less feedom in describing what happens during a fight. I've always tended to narrate the blows reducing a player to 1/4 hp or less as moderately serious, so contra what he says later, a PC in my campaigns in the past that was at 3/30 hp knew he was pretty hurt.So what happens to a wounded horse in a PC party, then? They heal up too?</blockquote>