Oh, that reminds me. There was a mechanic in another game that had sacrifice HP as a mechanic... but it was also a reward, because there were number of abilities that empowered you at half or lower HP.
Heh, I guess old schoolers think they dont need to read the rules about hit points.
It's not just "old schoolers." There are assumptions in the game that we all make to fit the narrative, and they aren't easily "ruled" away.
Yes, it'd be very good with Rogue, but not the 5.2 Paladin since they need a Bonus Action to smite now. That's not really that big of a deal.
I have tried it out myself, as have plenty of other amazing designers, and found the problem very small with many valid solutions to it. I'm not sure why people get tied into such knots over things in 5E. The game isn't as fragile as many posters on these forums would have you believe.
Hit points have had the same clear description and vision for 50 years. The has not stopped Team MeatPoint.
There was a cleric kit that was one attempt at making a 2e monk. Other attempts was a whole priest class in Spells & Magic (and I think it was also printed in Faiths & Avatars) and, a spicier attempt via the Sensei psionicist kit in The Will & The Way. All of these relied on mucking about with unarmed specialization, which was a fairly weird 2e mechanic. There may also have been a martial arts system in the Complete Ninja's Handbook but I never got that so I can't say for sure.
Yep, if rules alone were sufficient to change peoples' hearts and minds on this subject, it would have happened long ago. So I feel pretty safe saying that the rules aren't the issue. Those assumptions aren't changing, because Team MeatPoint doesn't want them changed any more than Team Abstraction wants to change their assumptions.
The origin of team meat point is a double standard. Gygax advised DMs to describe damage against players as nonphysical, but against monsters as physical. At the same time using Rasputin taking physical damage as an example of Constitution causes confusion. But perhaps Rasputin is the monster.
