u/ExplorersDesign

A couple years ago, I wrote a blog post about hp-free combat. It's something I've been playing around with on-and-off for the last few years. "How do I turn combat into an OSR-style problem? How do I make that big, bad dragon into an open-ended puzzle without all the stats and whittling down of hit points?"

After a couple years of playtests, I'm ready to share an hp-free death mechanic from those games. The dragon has 1 hit point and a maze of obstacles protecting it—but the players don't.

https://www.explorersdesign.com/dying-from-the-1-hp-dragon/