Wait, so it's literally like Hit Points and SDC in Palladium's games...

Wait, so it's literally like Hit Points and SDC in Palladium's games? Is this what modern game design is supposed to look like?

>Paizo
>original game design
Choose one.

It's not even "not original", it's really old at that. I hope they have a mechanic for point-blank shots and the like to go straight to HPs (that's what we ended up introducing in Palladium) because otherwise it gets really unrealistic fast.

I was thinking the vitality/wounds setup that Spycraft and the D20 Star Wars games used. Still Paizo copying other, better designers though.

No, you're right, modern game design is supposed to be needlessly reinventing the wheel and making it an octagon because fuck it. Instead of separating health into two pools of non-lethal and lethal damage, one that converts to the other, they should deduct damage from some kind of meta-currency of bennies that you use to shape your collaborative storytelling experience. But only until the end of the scene, at which point it refreshes. Unless you don't feel as though it's appropriate your character gets damaged in the first place, then you can negate it by flashing your X Card!

Modern game design, man, I love that shit.

>implying this kind of system hasn't been around since forever

So... do they use Stamina and Reserve as resources for other things? Because I could see a very elegant system coming out of that.

I do not expect this though. I expect for hitpoints to be one closed-off unnecessary subsystem and then for everything else to get its own closed-off unnecessary subsystems, because last time I checked that was the direction that Paizo game design was going in.

I'm actually tempted to like the SP/HP/RP thing, I could see it playing well, but I have no trust.

You sound very bitter and lonely.

Not stamina, but Resolve is used to amp up some of your abilities/feats together with recharging Stamina, yes. It's also what keeps you alive and starts draining after you get knocked out, so you really want to avoid going down.

It's total bullshit that Resolve doesn't scale with Charisma instead of main attribute of the class, making Cha more useful, particularly with how in Starfinder having decent stats across the board is way easier.

>Instead of separating health into two pools of non-lethal and lethal damage, o
Those of us who have been playing Palladium since the 80s know exactly the pitfalls of that.

>they should deduct damage from some kind of meta-currency of bennies that you use to shape your collaborative storytelling experience
That is indeed the superior solution. For example, this way you only lose 1 bennie for the entire attack, aka it makes no difference whether someone shot you with a weapon that would have made 1d6 as opposed to a death ray pistol that would have made 12d6 if it had hit.

>Modern game design, man, I love that shit.
t. Not-A-Game-Designer