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<blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 5356670" data-attributes="member: 40522">I've actually been using vitality/wound points in my Pathfinder games and it's worked very well for us.The single biggest advantage that I've seen has actually been narrative. Players seem a bit more accepting of how different things could hinder their character when I recast damage to represent a character's growing fatigue. I can also use vitality damage to represent why performing certain actions is not necessarily a good idea--like having a hangover from a long night of drinking or carrying too much gear.The only real disadvantage that I've seen is that it sometimes encourages players to bite off more than they can chew. They actually took on a nabassu demon that I had intended to be a major recurring villain at third level--despite the fact that they lacked cold iron or good-aligned weapons. The reasoning was entirely metagame: they reasoned that since crits bypassed DR and that two or three crits could drop it (they didn't realize that it had 22 WP), they had a great chance of defeating it if they just stayed alive long enough and made enough attack rolls.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dykstrav, post: 5356670, member: 40522"] I've actually been using vitality/wound points in my Pathfinder games and it's worked very well for us. The single biggest advantage that I've seen has actually been narrative. Players seem a bit more accepting of how different things could hinder their character when I recast damage to represent a character's growing fatigue. I can also use vitality damage to represent why performing certain actions is not necessarily a good idea--like having a hangover from a long night of drinking or carrying too much gear. The only real disadvantage that I've seen is that it sometimes encourages players to bite off more than they can chew. They actually took on a nabassu demon that I had intended to be a major recurring villain at third level--despite the fact that they lacked cold iron or good-aligned weapons. The reasoning was entirely metagame: they reasoned that since crits bypassed DR and that two or three crits could drop it (they didn't realize that it had 22 WP), they had a great chance of defeating it if they just stayed alive long enough and made enough attack rolls. [/QUOTE]

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