I addressed the attacks to the head thing since post 1 on this side topic. A random successful hit does not represent a strike to the head. That would be more in line with a critical hit. If we go by your assumption that means a 1hp peasant ALWAYS get struct in the head whenever hit with a low damage weapon, just so you can bend yourself into a pretzel to try to justify why level 0-1 characters have such ridiculously low HP. Working backwards from the assumption that D&D can do no wrong.
D&D is trash.
Yeah, at this point you're completely irrational.
Right back at you.
Old school D&D doesn't have critical hits, so yes, a hit to the head is a normal hit. Or to be even more precise, hit points are an abstract measure of injury that's uncorrelated with any specific wound, which means the DM, or even the player depending on the social contract, can describe injuries in any way they see fit, including as head wounds.
Normal hits in old D&D are always to head so that a 1hp peasant can die of a single hit with a stick. Got it.
Where did I say that?
Oh, I didn't.
Never even implied it.
What's that called again? Something involving straw and persons of one gender? Or we could just call it a lie. That's simpler and doesn't require a memeterm.
I don't give a shit what you call it. To you everything is a StRaWmAn, while your dodges and refusals to actually address what I actually said are somehow iron tight arguments*.
*And yes, I'm sure that this is also a sTrAwMaN.
And I specifically pointed out that hit points were pretty damn low for 0-level peasants, and argued the baseline should be more than 3 HD. I literally said the opposite of what you're claiming I'm contorting myself to support.
Where did you argue that? Cuz that has always been more or less my take about base HD in D&D, so if you had mentioned it, I wouldn't have argued against it--cuz that's basically what I tend to do. If fact, NONE of my arguments are against it, but essentially against the idea that 1 HD is enough.
https://www.therpgsite.com/pen-paper-roleplaying-games-rpgs-discussion/incremental-success-improvement-as-characters-progress-in-rpgs/msg1171981/#msg1171981
So not only did you claim I said something I didn't, but I've posted the very opposite of what you claimed just a page or two ago.
Oh, so a reply to someone else that doesn't even say exactly what you claimed in the ACTUAL post I replied to? Made
after we were already 2-3 posts into this argument that now you're trying to pull off as if that was your argument all along, when that wasn't even your argument in that post, but merely a concession you made by the end when you said "Overall, there's a decent argument that a capable adult human should have 3 HD."
But I'm the one who's being irrational and arguing based on logical fallacies?
You didn't argue that humans should have 3 HD in that post, but extrapolated that due to a -10 HP rule (which I believe was merely an optional rule) it's
almost like you actually had 3HD all along. Even though being merely able to survive comatose till -10hp is NOT the same thing as actually having 10hp or 3HD, but merely a buffer that applies while you're lying in the ground helpless and dying. Then by the end you finally conceded that maybe "there's a decent argument that a capable adult human should have 3 HD."
That's not the same as "arguing" that that should be the case. That's arguing that the reality is something else (which I disagree with, as explained above), then essentially saying "but you know what? Maybe, maybe you're right...adult humans should have 3HD (i.e. a concession that, not an argument for)."
But NONE of that was ever your initial argument when you got into a discussion with me. Your initial argument was that rats should do 0 damage cuz 1 in 4 peasants (or something to that effect) only had 1hp. Which would be an argument in support of that status quo, not that maybe all adult humans should have 3HD, but a reinforcement of the idea that 1hp peasants are fine. Rat bites doing damage is what's the problem.
The idea that adult humans should have 3HD didn't even come up till after (in a post to someone else), and it would actually support my position (which is essentially baseline HP in D&D are too low), not contradict it. As it happens, I've been making all adult humans level 3 (3HD; children have 1HD, adolescents 2HD) in my games since the late 90s.