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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Colby" data-source="post: 4199492" data-attributes="member: 54634">I think the names are fine, and I doubt WotC is going to change them, at least not for the next decade or so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; Hit points in 4e do what they have always done, regardless of what some people may have falsely believed HP represented over the years.&nbsp; Saving Throws actually have changed but that's ok.&nbsp; A lot of things get redefined as new editions come out.&nbsp; We will all get used to it pretty quickly.&nbsp; No need for knee-jerk reaction calls for name changes!Oh, and notice that neither name is terribly descriptive of what they actually do, because what they do has always been vague.&nbsp; Hit points allude to &quot;hits&quot;, which was just the term for successful die rolls. Saving throws refer to a throw of dice to save your character.&nbsp; Those are some pretty general descriptive names, and are as perfectly applicable to 4e as they were to original D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Colby, post: 4199492, member: 54634"] I think the names are fine, and I doubt WotC is going to change them, at least not for the next decade or so. :) Hit points in 4e do what they have always done, regardless of what some people may have falsely believed HP represented over the years. Saving Throws actually have changed but that's ok. A lot of things get redefined as new editions come out. We will all get used to it pretty quickly. No need for knee-jerk reaction calls for name changes! Oh, and notice that neither name is terribly descriptive of what they actually do, because what they do has always been vague. Hit points allude to "hits", which was just the term for successful die rolls. Saving throws refer to a throw of dice to save your character. Those are some pretty general descriptive names, and are as perfectly applicable to 4e as they were to original D&D. [/QUOTE]

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