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Originally Posted by David Bofinger
I think this is because TFT got its start in the form of Melee and Wizard, games about two people fighting in an arena. In that context there is no difference between being dead and unconscious: once someone is hors de combat the game is over. Perhaps it should have been fixed later, but it slipped through.
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In Melee and Wizard, unless an arena combat is To The Death, an unconscious figure could survive to fight again. Those games have experience awards for survivors to improve for later battles, so it's quite significant in those games if someone survives unless players only choose to play stand-alone fights. I thought trying to keep gladiators alive added a lot to my enjoyment when all I had was Melee circa 1979, so the line between unconscious and dead was really important.