HP and MP. What do they stand for?

[KentaRawr!]

When you hear HP and/or MP, what do you think of? I think Health Points and Magic Points.

Hows about you guys?

[Kyri]

Health points and mana points.

[Leen-Leen]

I think of them as hit points and magic points.

[Roto13]

I think of them as hit points and magic points.

[ff7+ff10 gurl 100]

I'd say Health Points and Magic Points. :bigsmile:

[Tavrobel]

HP == Hit points. MP == Magic Points, but only if that's the only thing they are used for. Mana is MP, but also used for skills, and I rarely use the term "points" after Mana. I've never used Health points for HP, before, either. I guess you do learn something new everyday.

[Kirobaito]

Hit points and magic power, strangely enough.

[Vermachtnis]

I always say HP and Mana. No matter what the game is. Even if it's TP or SP or something, it's Mana to me ;)

[Sylvie]

Hit Points and Magic Points.

[My_car_is_faster_than_you]

Hit Points and Magic Points.

What he said, except that I never refer them as such. It's alwasy HP and MP to me. "We all know what they mean."

[Odaisé Gaelach]

HP = Hit Points / MP = Magic Points.

[Moon Rabbits]

When I see them I just think "HP&MP", but if you ask me what they mean I'd say "Hit points and MP".

That option isn't on there :(!

[Araciel]

i'm pretty sure most games that use these short forms tell you what they are individually...but i usually call them hit points and MP...never call MP anything else!

[Meat Puppet]

Hit Points and Meat Puppet.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

health points and magic points

[crono_logical]

I think of them as hit points and magic points.Same for me, unless the game mentions otherwise, eg mana or in some cases, movement :p

[Ouch!]

Health Points/Magic Points.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Hotpants and monkey poo

[Nifleheim7]

Health points/Magic points

[Ryth]

Hit Points and Magic Power.

[ljkkjlcm9]

Hit Points and Meat Puppet.

From now on MP means Meat Puppet, whenever I see it, thanks for that haha

But normally I think HP = Hit points, and your hit points are equal to your total Health, and MP is your magic points and your magic points are equal to your total mana

IE your Health has 1074 hit points(HP), and your Mana has 265 magic points (MP)

THE JACKEL

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I think of them as Hit Points and Magic Points, since those are the correct labels unless explicitly stated otherwise.

[RSL]

I think of them as Hit Points and Magic Points, since those are the correct labels unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Yeah this guy knows the truth.

[ayame]

hit points and magic points

[Mirage]

Health points and mana points. Definitely not magic power, cause that's an entirely different stat.

[Sunny Day Suicide]

Depends on the game. Some games use Mana points, others don't.

[Madame Adequate]

Hit Points and Magic Points, quite blatantly.

[41-Inches-Wide]

I used to think Horse Power.
But I think it's Health Points. And Mana Points.

[Saku]

I just think HP and MP..... things get complicated when you try to understand what they stand for. And just when you think you have a grasp of the situation... they add in SP and TP...

That aside.... there are a million different things that are abreviated HP... including printers, engine sizes, and the odd death points you return to when incapacitated.....

[I Took the Red Pill]

Hit Points/Magic Points, naturally.

[Markus. D]

well. I went off of what games I saw them in first.


Namely Pokemon Red (hit Points) and Final Fantasy Legend 2 which I think was ... Mana... im not sure.

[Elite Lord Sigma]

I say Hit Points, as it sounds catchy, and Magic Points, as I've never heard them referred as Mana Points in any game I've played.

[Behold the Void]

I think of them as Hit Points and Magic Points, since those are the correct labels unless explicitly stated otherwise.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

I use the abbreviations when holding a discussion about RPG's. Though the definitions I would use are Hit Points and Magic Points

[Cz]

Hit Points and Magic Points, otherwise known as "the correct way".

[I Am Stoner]

I think of them as hit points and magic points.

[Araciel]

come on people, lets make up our own meanings....HIPs and MIPs

[bipper]

I think of them as Hit Points and Magic Points, since those are the correct labels unless explicitly stated otherwise.

I agree with this; though, I tend to thing of HIT as being the chances of the character being hit, a calculated number derived from condition that would suffer from being hit and the condition of the character. As in, it was thier armor factor persay, that had to be wore down before thier final hit for death.

Hit points just sounds missused if you use it to describe health. It seeming is the ammount of hits they can take before they die. Healthy or no. Condition may affect it, but health is not a proper word either.

I tend to use Condition, Life, Mana, Focus in my games.

[LunarWeaver]

I don't conform by using the popular terms for either, which is a way of conforming, and since conforming is so rare these days because nobody wants to conform it indeed leaves me with not conforming by conforming.

[No.78]

Happy Power and Mystic Puppies


GAWD

[Ender]

When I see them I just think "HP&MP", but if you ask me what they mean I'd say "Hit points and MP".

That option isn't on there :(!

LOL, I'm exactly the same.

[Polaris]

First when I heard abou HP and MP I didn't even know what that was... for me HP was the health and MP... FF8 didn't have Mp so only when I played FF7 I realized what it was... but now I knwo what they are

[Araciel]

i think it's almost to the point where we CAN just call them HP and MP and people don't need to know what you mean cause you said it already

[RPJesus]

Health points and magic points. Hit just confused me (was more Pokemon than, say, Final Fantasy) and mana never really seemed like a way of measuring.
Exp means experience, which confuses up my maths lessons.

[Araciel]

i thought hit points was more D&D

[oddler]

Hit Points and Meat Puppet.

From now on MP means Meat Puppet, whenever I see it, thanks for that haha

But normally I think HP = Hit points, and your hit points are equal to your total Health, and MP is your magic points and your magic points are equal to your total mana

IE your Health has 1074 hit points(HP), and your Mana has 265 magic points (MP)

THE JACKAL

I concur. I'm going to start telling my friends "Use a Difluid, you're low on Meat Puppet." Hit points and Magic Points.

[Shoeberto]

I think of them as Hit Points and Magic Points, since those are the correct labels unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Yeah this guy knows the truth.
So does this guy.

[Dignified Pauper]

health and mana.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Health and magic.

[Rosenti]

deinftly mana points the second one, cause as you see on sphere grid, its called Mana sphere. So i beileve its mana!


OW YEH! *DANCES*

[Mirage]

i thought hit points was more D&D

Which is what the original FF was based on. However, I still think hitpoints sounds silly.

[Araciel]

heh yep...remember the old spell system in 1 hahaha no MP anyway!