Re: [WW] Re: Australians and Damage Values

["nvdoyle" <nvdoyle@home.com>]

That's a -very- interesting take on it...think I'll show it to my DMs...

Noah
nvdoyle@home.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan & Dorothy Hoyland" <ahoyland@mediaone.net>
To: <weirdwars@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 4:31 PM
Subject: RE: [WW] Re: Australians and Damage Values


> D20's hit points don't model physical damage I will grant you. But it
> does model what the average soldier believe stands between him and
> death. I've seen enough documentaries were former soldiers talk about
> someone knowing their luck had run out.
> Wounds are merely outward signs of this luck. Wounds occur when you
> don't have enough luck to make the event a clear miss.  When the medic
> binds the wounds, sets the bone he is doing rituals needed to increase
> luck as a shaman would dance to reach to the other side. The drugs given
> to you are the components for the magic, like a witchdoctor burning
> herbs and having the patient drink teas to cast out some spirit.
> Why else would it take weeks and months for a wound to heal, yet their
> hit points are fully healed.
> Hit points/luck, they are all stands between a soldier's going home or a
> new home 6' under in Europe.