Ooh.

  Can’t wait for the corpse runs!

, though I’d write it this way:

Protagonists have an HP value, which stands for Health Points, and Max HP value, which stands for Maximum Health Points, which are tracked by the GNDT as integer non-negative numbers.

If an action would lower a Protagonist’s HP to less than 0, set that Protagonist’s to 0 instead. If an action would raise a Protagonist’s HP to more than eir Max HP, set that Protagonist’s HP value equal to eir Max HP value instead.

I’m going to vote , but I feel the wording about “If a Protagonist has 0 HP, that Protagonist has eir location immediately changed to “The Ruins of the Fortress of Cheese”.” is going to cause some serious problem. This is an ongoing event that causes an instantaneous one. So I could, with 0 HP, walk to another location, but continually my Location will be set to The Ruins of the Fortress of Cheese. That’s either A) a contradiction or B) jittery (as I can have my Location reset, but then it’s immediately reset again). If there were two rules worded in such a way, I’d be continually bounced back and forth between two locations. (Like a rule that stated “If I am hungry, my Location is immediately set to The Kitchen.”.) It really should be worded “If a Protagonist’s HP _becomes_ 0.”

Ditto Saurik’s concern, though.  Plus, the Rule really should state that the GNDT fields are where this stuff is recorded.  But this one’s not worth killing the Proposal over, I don’t think.

While it does seem weird to specify a GNDT field is created and then not use it in the Rule text, I feel the statement again needs to be made that if the Rules state that HP is a property that Protagonists have, and that property for some particular protagonist is currently 50, the Rule shouldn’t have to go mucking about with “and this information is stored in the GNDT”. The GNDT can still have that information, but it isn’t normative.

Let’s look at the incredibly strict tournement rules for Magic: The Gathering as an examplar. No where does it state that your current life total is stored using a 20-sided die next to you. It doesn’t state that you need to rotate that die in order to change your life total. It does make very clear at all times exactly how much life you have, however, and if there’s any confusion you can argue about it within the ruleset and come to a definitive answer. This also leads to much greater flexibility as players can use poker chips, custom counters, or even just choose to normally remember the totals in their heads. Extra text in the rules as to how this value is to be physically represented for other humans to see is just wasted Rule text.

Don’t change the system!

Actually, I do like Hit Points better: Don’t change the system

  Don’t change the syste

(duplicate vote + magic phrase)

75th: but you forgot an m. ;P