Narrating hit point loss in Dungeons and Dragons can be a bit tricky. I often hear DM's narrate a bad roll that doesn't meet or beat its targets armor class as a miss. Also, a good roll that hits its targets armor class and not doing enough damage to "defeat" the target is also kind of a miss.
In this video, I discuss some of the ideas I found on various web sources about solutions for this narrative issue: Remove hit points AND remove d20 attack rolls (or to-hit rolls) from D&D entirely. Can it be done? What would that look like in game? Which one is better? Watch this video to find out my thoughts on the matter.
Here is the Runehammer Forum post that inspired this video:
https://forums.runehammer.online/t/the-hp-issue-two-solutions/5742
Here is a sign up link to Ben Milton's Glatistant (Questing Beast):
https://questingbeast.substack.com/
Here is a link to the Prismatic Wasteland article by W.F. Smith:
https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/overloading-the-damage-die
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:03 The problem with narrating hit point loss
02:16 Two Solutions
02:56 Remove Hit Points
04:17 Terrain Example 1
05:07 Concerns about removing HP
05:33 Remove Attack Rolls/Change AC
06:45 Terrain Example 2
07:54 Concerns about removing AC
08:32 Which is best?
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