HP and MP. What do they stand for?

[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.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

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