Timeline for What is the origin of the term "hit point"?
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| Aug 23, 2011 at 12:36 | vote | accept | Thursagen | ||
| Aug 2, 2011 at 16:24 | comment | added | T.E.D. | Thursagen - I can't because it wasn't. As I said in the answer, D&D didn't invent the concept, so much as popularize it. IMHO that is the more important activity, and thus D&D deserves the lion's share of the credit. Nobody is thinking "that wargame called Ironclads" when hearing a snarky reference to hitpoints. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 23:38 | comment | added | Thursagen | Can you please provide a definite link that clearly states that "hit point" actually was invented by D&D? | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 21:48 | comment | added | Spare Oom | Clearly D&D was the beginning of "HP's" popularity, if not the origin of the idea, but I'm not willing to search through the rules for the plethora of wargames put out by Avalon Hill years ago for the pre D&D era geeks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_Hill | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 12:20 | history | answered | T.E.D. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |