I feel that they are correct. Vitality has more of a connotation of 'energy'. In contrast to the hit points system that VP/WP replaces, which is hopelessly abstract, a 'wound' is actual damage to a character. In a vacuum, your analysis would be correct, but you have to take the history of this topic into consideration.
-Mike --- woodelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:08 -0800 2/11/03, Mike Kletch wrote: > >In short, for those who do not have the SWRCRB, your hit points become your > >vitality points, and they recover as subdual damage normally does > >(level/hour). > > WP are equal to your CON (times a multiplier if you are Huge+, or Tiny-), > and > >you take WP damage 1) after you run out of VP, or 2) on a critical hit. > > Aside: > am i the only one who thinks the names are reversed? It sounds to me > like "vitality" should be the, well, vital, living essence of > yourself. After all, vitality in a non-game context is about being > alive. Wounds--well, ok, that also sounds like an actual physical > thing, but less so than vitality, to me. And, it makes more sense to > me to say you take all sorts of wounds, but a lucky hit can cut right > to your vital essence than to say that you can lose all sorts of > vitality, but a lucky hit will cause a wound. I dunno, maybe it > should be fatigue/wounds if you're creating your own system? > -- > woodelf <*> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ > > The Laws of Anime <http://www.abcb.com/laws/index.htm>: > #12 Law of Phlogistatic Emission > Nearly all things emit light from fatal wounds. > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
