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6/19/2025, 6:57:23 AM
>>95898892
>I recall some old supergrognard from the early years that ran without HP being known to the players. It might have been Arneson or Holmes or someone.
Some of his players claim Arneson ran games this way, but others don't, and there's material evidence that at any rate he didn't do it consistently. (And in the very early sessions he can't have, because he himself claimed that the invented hit dice when the players complained that their "flunky"-level characters only had one "chop" and thus would die from any hit until they made "hero" and got four.) My guess is that there's either a confusion with the better-established fact that he didn't tell the players the *rules*, or else he was just experimenting with hidden HP during some period of the game, which seems to have been in character for him.
>>95898910
>Yeah, in Blackmore players didn't even know their characters' ability scores. The joke gets old soon.
Not true, pic related.
>I recall some old supergrognard from the early years that ran without HP being known to the players. It might have been Arneson or Holmes or someone.
Some of his players claim Arneson ran games this way, but others don't, and there's material evidence that at any rate he didn't do it consistently. (And in the very early sessions he can't have, because he himself claimed that the invented hit dice when the players complained that their "flunky"-level characters only had one "chop" and thus would die from any hit until they made "hero" and got four.) My guess is that there's either a confusion with the better-established fact that he didn't tell the players the *rules*, or else he was just experimenting with hidden HP during some period of the game, which seems to have been in character for him.
>>95898910
>Yeah, in Blackmore players didn't even know their characters' ability scores. The joke gets old soon.
Not true, pic related.
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