What hit points are, from the 1st edition AD&D Player's Handbook, page 34.
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What if you have #HitPoints AND #HitLocation?
Choose a target location, the more specific the greater the penalty.
Make your roll without the location penalty. If you hit, and your margin is high enough, you struck that location. The hit points are subtracted, and there is an additional effect for the location.
If your margin is less than the location penalty, then you still cost them hit points, and that might have a general penalty. Of course, reach 0 and you're out of commission.
… but can’t get more back without being in a Place of Safety (I.e. a town or similar). TPCs overcome some fatigue but in the field you can’t completely rest.
at 0 but not dead you’re too wounded to fight or recover but you can move. Get back to town!
For Clerics, Aid spells that give temp HP come well before Cure type spells that get people off 0 HP. Bolstering allies is easier than mending flesh.
PCs all took hits in last fight, so we can see if this works as intended.
About to get a test of my HP interpretation this weekend. I already calibrated class HP to make sure every PC can take at least 1 at-level hit before dropping to 0 HP. 0 HP means this is the hit that actually lands well enough to take you out of the fight, and will kill you if you fail a death save. As long as you’re at positive HP you heal one half your lost HP after a nights sleep in a Place of Rest (i.e. your out of dungeon camp)…
My alternate Saturday night #DungeonsAndDragons game #DungeonMaster made each player one of these for us as a #holiday #gift.
Assuming a greater #HealingPotion I now have recovered 10 #HitPoints.
The "liquid" is red #resin and the top is an actual #WaxSeal.
Would you eat a half eaten burger out of a trashcan, if the burger would heal your hitpoints?
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#Miniatures and #maps are great for some #games but roleplaying is best when it's #TheaterOfTheMind.
Also helpful, though a challenge to GM, is the Player Isolation Principle, whereby the players are not exposed to the #GameMechanics directly. The numerical values have #descriptive equivalents that allow translation. A #strength
#attribute #modifier of +2 becomes "very strong", a 30% reduction in #HitPoints becomes a "moderate injury", etc...
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