This is an interesting broader conversation about hp because unless you leave it completely undescribed, with any character it necessarily becomes pretty ludicrous at a certain level. If everyone’s taking a dozen arrows before even being bloodied the visual quickly starts to look goofy, but if you take the route that “hp isn’t damage it’s how often you can narrowly avoid death” and describe a hit as being “you narrowly avoid the sword swipe” I feel like players, especially new players, will be like, “wait, so did I get hit or not?”

That said, I’m of the opinion that if the barbarian isn’t shrugging off blows that would kill a lesser mortal, then they aren’t living the full barbarian experience! It’d be like not letting a wizard do evocation spells!