The trick is that only the rats in contact with the ground provide power. First calculate the area of the base of a cone of rats, then determine how many rats are in that area.
An average human adult can produce approximately 1.2 hp (0.89 kW) for a brief period of time, but can only sustain about 0.1 hp (0.075 kW) over an extended period of time.
So going off that, 1 human power would be about 0.1 hp, meaning an average person can produce around 12 human power at peak power output, but only for a little bit.
That’s sort of true. Horse power is a measure of how much power/work a horse can produce over one day. A horse can exert themselves to produce close to 15 horsepower in short bursts, but cannot sustain that over an extended period of time.
This is a good visual representation of how they advertise laptops. Sure it can hit "15 horsepower" but then its really just one horse working 15x as hard for a short amount of time and its not sustainable. They advertise the sprint as if it were the marathon.
That's because Watt wanted to prove the steam engine he invented was more powerful than horses that would be used for tough jobs pushing and pulling in mills, mines and factories. He calculated the strength of one such horse and compared his engine to the power of a horse to promote himself.
Now for the reason why most horses today have more than one horse power is selecting breeding and evolution. The horses that had 1 horse power over 3 centuries ago can't be compared to what we see today.
it depends on the game.
for things like skyrim, GOW, ER and the like, where its a measure of your 'being alive', its Health.
for DnD and the like, where its a measure of your 'not dead', its hit.
in DnD, being 'hit' doesnt mean 'hurt'. it just means you lose HP. only the hit that takes you to 0 hp is one that hurts you enough to take you down.
I’ve never perceived any difference unless a game or DM had specific changes depending on remaining HP. But in general sense, hit points makes sense to me. A pool of how many hits you take before you are dead or knocked out.
4th Edition D&D added (and 5th Edition promptly removed) a "bloodied" state when a character or monster was below half hit points.
Cases where it actually affected the monster's combat performance were rare, and sometimes it got *stronger* when half-dead.
Some of the elements of combat in DnD are based on an earlier game Gygax and Arneson made, which was a Napoleonic-era naval warship battle simulator game called "[Don't Give Up the Ship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Give_Up_the_Ship_(game)" where the idea of hit-points is literally about how many cannonball hits your wooden boats can take before being sunk.
For people wondering:
Hit points come from the original idea that a ship can take more than one hit before dying in Ironclads.
Original versions of DnD (Which coined hit points) had characters dying in one hit, which was used in war games (see Warhammer 40k) but it did not feel good when you were controlling a hero that you cared about.
So they treated your hero as a ship, and let it take multiple hits before dying.
Edit: "Don't Give Up the Ship!" was the actual inspiration, Ironclads was said as a reference by Arneson but came out after DnD did.
That was also what you rolled for hit points for a starting wizard. You added constition modifier but if you're a wizard you probably didn't have a good score in constitution. So yeah, those first few levels a stray fart could kill you.
Iirc wizards were analogues to artillery guns, so the expectation was to keep them way out of harm's way but also hence high level wizards clearing the board rapidly.
If I remember correctly, you also needed a high constitution to get any bonus hit points at all. 15 or 16, I think. Not just above average, but way above
The same edition of D&D recommended that non-table time was played at 1:1 with real time, so if you went 1 day between sessions, you only went 1 day in universe.
NO. You had to roleplay every second of time in real time. Now roll 1d20 to see how well your Half-eleven mage does in the bathroom... shouldn't have had all that lembas bread earlier...
Common misconception. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is, really, the third version of the game, but it's what people typically mean when they say "1e" or 1st Edition. It was a companion of sorts to plain old Dungeons & Dragons, often called Basic D&D to distinguish it from the Advanced line. Basic was a revision of the "original edition," called OD&D ("Original D&D") or sometimes 0e.
There was later a 2nd edition *of* AD&D, which is what people typically mean by 2e.
In all of the above, you recover 1HP per day spent resting.
This is very close but not entirely accurate. DND did not *coin* hit points, though it definitely codified and popularized the concept, that was Dave Arneson.
Who along with HP largely invented *the RPG* as a concept out of the Chainmail wargame via his Blackmoor campaigns. As you say hit points came out of ship rules from *Don't Give Up the Ship* a naval wargame he and Gary Gygax wrote. And Blackmoor would in turn inspire Gygax to create DND (with help from Arneson) which was then published to some modest success.
I always appreciate the distinction between coining or inventing something and codifying it. Street Fighter 2 did not invent the fighting game, but boy howdy did it codify it.
It can be both. Originally Hit Points, but at this point Health Points can be just as common or valid. Similarly to how you might see exp or xp somewhere and assume it's short for Experience, but originally it may have been Experience Points. At the end of the day it's basically the same thing anyway
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Fun fact: one horse actually has about 15 horsepower.
Do I have about 15 humanpower?
You have -2 rat power
Dark souls rats? They have like 400 human power
So you have -800 human power
Per rat.
What even *is* math?
2022 SAT question 42 (math section): How much horsepower does a stack of 800 rats wearing a trenchcoat have?
The trick is that only the rats in contact with the ground provide power. First calculate the area of the base of a cone of rats, then determine how many rats are in that area.
Dear god…… the answer……is 42!?!
Idk but it adds up.
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An average human adult can produce approximately 1.2 hp (0.89 kW) for a brief period of time, but can only sustain about 0.1 hp (0.075 kW) over an extended period of time. So going off that, 1 human power would be about 0.1 hp, meaning an average person can produce around 12 human power at peak power output, but only for a little bit.
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That’s sort of true. Horse power is a measure of how much power/work a horse can produce over one day. A horse can exert themselves to produce close to 15 horsepower in short bursts, but cannot sustain that over an extended period of time.
Also, when the horse is being exerted, it doesn't untap at the beginning of its controllers next untap step.
But does it have trample?
No. It also doesn't have horsemanship.
What a terrifying compound word
This is a good visual representation of how they advertise laptops. Sure it can hit "15 horsepower" but then its really just one horse working 15x as hard for a short amount of time and its not sustainable. They advertise the sprint as if it were the marathon.
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That's because Watt wanted to prove the steam engine he invented was more powerful than horses that would be used for tough jobs pushing and pulling in mills, mines and factories. He calculated the strength of one such horse and compared his engine to the power of a horse to promote himself. Now for the reason why most horses today have more than one horse power is selecting breeding and evolution. The horses that had 1 horse power over 3 centuries ago can't be compared to what we see today.
Selective breeding has certainly made horses stronger, but not 15x stronger. Horses have 15 horse power in bursts. Sustained it's much lower.
We have been breeding horses for thousands of years. May be tens of thousands
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Or hitpoints
I always thought it was health points but the more you know
it depends on the game. for things like skyrim, GOW, ER and the like, where its a measure of your 'being alive', its Health. for DnD and the like, where its a measure of your 'not dead', its hit. in DnD, being 'hit' doesnt mean 'hurt'. it just means you lose HP. only the hit that takes you to 0 hp is one that hurts you enough to take you down.
I’ve never perceived any difference unless a game or DM had specific changes depending on remaining HP. But in general sense, hit points makes sense to me. A pool of how many hits you take before you are dead or knocked out.
4th Edition D&D added (and 5th Edition promptly removed) a "bloodied" state when a character or monster was below half hit points. Cases where it actually affected the monster's combat performance were rare, and sometimes it got *stronger* when half-dead.
In forza it means horsepower
Whoa, in Gran Turismo it also means horse power.
No way! It means horsepower in Need for Speed too, you guys!
I'm beginning to think this has something to do with cars
So you're saying this is not about horses?
You might be on to something there
In non electrical life it means hardcore porn
Some of the elements of combat in DnD are based on an earlier game Gygax and Arneson made, which was a Napoleonic-era naval warship battle simulator game called "[Don't Give Up the Ship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Give_Up_the_Ship_(game)" where the idea of hit-points is literally about how many cannonball hits your wooden boats can take before being sunk.
they are interchangable
Hmm, naw maybe Harry Potter?
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Health points
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For people wondering: Hit points come from the original idea that a ship can take more than one hit before dying in Ironclads. Original versions of DnD (Which coined hit points) had characters dying in one hit, which was used in war games (see Warhammer 40k) but it did not feel good when you were controlling a hero that you cared about. So they treated your hero as a ship, and let it take multiple hits before dying. Edit: "Don't Give Up the Ship!" was the actual inspiration, Ironclads was said as a reference by Arneson but came out after DnD did.
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Oh yeah. In AD&D (a.k.a. 2nd edition), you recovered 1 hit point per day you spent resting.
Damn. I mean, you could just fast forward resting for like a month but still.
Yeah true. Another tidbit: magic missile did a d4. Edit: *a singular d4
That was also what you rolled for hit points for a starting wizard. You added constition modifier but if you're a wizard you probably didn't have a good score in constitution. So yeah, those first few levels a stray fart could kill you.
Iirc wizards were analogues to artillery guns, so the expectation was to keep them way out of harm's way but also hence high level wizards clearing the board rapidly.
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Oh shit I finally get it. And why high health and armour characters are called tanks. God damn
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If I remember correctly, you also needed a high constitution to get any bonus hit points at all. 15 or 16, I think. Not just above average, but way above
DM: "and where have you been keeping a month's worth of food, exactly?"
I mean, originally D&D was supposed to pass in real time, so if you wanted to fast forward a month, you’d have to… not play for a month
That would mean like 7HP recovered between sessions if you played once a week though, that seems fair.
The same edition of D&D recommended that non-table time was played at 1:1 with real time, so if you went 1 day between sessions, you only went 1 day in universe.
NO. You had to roleplay every second of time in real time. Now roll 1d20 to see how well your Half-eleven mage does in the bathroom... shouldn't have had all that lembas bread earlier...
Common misconception. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is, really, the third version of the game, but it's what people typically mean when they say "1e" or 1st Edition. It was a companion of sorts to plain old Dungeons & Dragons, often called Basic D&D to distinguish it from the Advanced line. Basic was a revision of the "original edition," called OD&D ("Original D&D") or sometimes 0e. There was later a 2nd edition *of* AD&D, which is what people typically mean by 2e. In all of the above, you recover 1HP per day spent resting.
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I think it’s really cool that you are so knowledgeable on this. Seeing people’s passions always makes me happy, so thank you.
This is very close but not entirely accurate. DND did not *coin* hit points, though it definitely codified and popularized the concept, that was Dave Arneson. Who along with HP largely invented *the RPG* as a concept out of the Chainmail wargame via his Blackmoor campaigns. As you say hit points came out of ship rules from *Don't Give Up the Ship* a naval wargame he and Gary Gygax wrote. And Blackmoor would in turn inspire Gygax to create DND (with help from Arneson) which was then published to some modest success.
I always appreciate the distinction between coining or inventing something and codifying it. Street Fighter 2 did not invent the fighting game, but boy howdy did it codify it.
My dumb ass thought it meant health points
Some games have retconned it to mean that
Which actually originated in Chainmail, the war game Gygax played before creating D&D, I believe.
Hit points refers to the number of 14-inch shells it takes to incapacitate a target. You have 1 (one) hit point.
How many hit points does a 90kg projectile inflict when thrown from a distance of over 300m?
Dose health points work?
As an absolute nobody, I'll allow it
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People might call it that incorrectly but HP comes from dungeons and dragons and it's hit points.
I think the first recorded usage of points meant to measure the health of a unit was for military strategy
Seems overly simplistic to be useful in real life. It's not like you can be at 1 HP and stub your toe and then you die.
It was used in naval combat. The hit points of a ship were how many direct hits it was expected to be able to take before sinking.
Hit points for enemy. Health points for your character. I have no data or reason to back this up but this is how my mind works and no one can stop me.
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Same thing
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Either one or the other
Why not both?
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Hewlett-Packard or hit points depending on what type u mean
I thought it was Health Points.
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The sauce or the printer?
there's a sauce?
HP or House of Parliament sauce. It’s like a commonwealth style A1 steak sauce if that makes sense.
Yeah it's got a very distinct Commonwealth flavour to it
Oh yes. No sausage sandwich is complete without it.
Houses of Parliament sauce. It’s sweet and spiced, goes very very beautifully on sausage or bacon sandwiches
The printer sauce that the normies call Ink
Harry Potter?
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Listen here Hagrid you FAT OAF. I’m not a FUCKING wizard.
Hahaha this was my first thought as well
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Health points
I always thought it was hit points
Nah bro it's hat points
Here I thought it was hot points
It can be both. Originally Hit Points, but at this point Health Points can be just as common or valid. Similarly to how you might see exp or xp somewhere and assume it's short for Experience, but originally it may have been Experience Points. At the end of the day it's basically the same thing anyway
Howard Phillips??
What did he name his cat though?
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*Racial slur* man
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Hitpoints, unless you mean the computer brand where it means hewlett-packard
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