- published: 30 Jun 2016
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Health is an attribute assigned to entities within a role-playing or video game that indicates its state in combat. Health is usually measured in health points or hit points, often shortened as HP. When the HP of a player character reaches zero, the player may lose a life or their character might become incapacitated or die. When the HP of an enemy reaches zero, the player might be rewarded in some way.
Any entity within a game could have a health value, including the player character, non-player characters and objects. Indestructible entities have no diminishable health value.
Health might be displayed as a numeric value, such as "50/100". Here, the first number indicates the current amount of HP an entity has and the second number indicates the entity's maximum HP. In video games, health can also be displayed graphically, such as with a bar that empties itself when an entity loses health (a health bar), icons that are "chipped away" from, or in more novel ways.
Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson described the origin of hit points in a 2002 interview. When Arneson was adapting the medieval wargame Chainmail (1971) to a fantasy setting, a process that with Gary Gygax would lead to Dungeons & Dragons, he saw that the emphasis of the gameplay was moving from large armies to small groups of heroes and eventually to the identification of one player and one character that is essential to role-playing as it was originally conceived. Players became attached to their heroes and did not want them to die every time they lost a die roll. Players were thus given multiple hit points which were incrementally decreased as they took damage. Arneson took the concept, along with armor class, from a set of a naval American Civil War game's rules.
Hey little girl you're runnin all over town
I know about you yeah you really get around
Well I hate to say it but your clothes don't fit you right
And tonight I think you've got your hot pants on too tight
[Chorus]
You're always wearing those hot pants
You say you're lookin for romance
But when I 'm around you know you haven't got a chance
You're always wearing those hot pants
But I know that no one wants to dance with you tonight
Hey little girl you're tryin to get with my guy
I've got two words hands off or baby I'll make you cry
I don't pull hair and I don't fight dirty
But piss me off at 9 and you're lunchmeat by 9:30
Well you've got the moves but your hair is so last year
And you've got the attitude but you're wearing your headgear
Everybody knows you put the ho in ho ho's
And you're in my face and I wanna break your nose