The food on the floor? yeah that one? Eat it to regain health.
Speaking of food, you can get hurt by anything, gunshots, knife wounds, near drowned, laser blast, dog bites hell, anything by an animal and all you need to do is eat food, and [HEADING=2]allllllllllll better![/HEADING]
Also, all you need to do is sleep in a inn to regain health (Rpg and Jrpg's only!)
You can have all your stats, max out. Destroy the big bad ten times over and slain a million mooks without dying once...
...but woe on your ass if you fall into a pool of water, for atatir froom assassin creed? It's kneedeep. That's right, the world greatest assassin at that time almost dies in knee deep water.
All guards are deaf and blind...no exceptions.
Whatever you steal something...it's actually useless.
That super powerful sword you have? That one you went through hell and back on? It's useless as well. Who are you going to use it on? The big bad is dead and the mooks run in fear of you!
Speaking of mooks...There is always that one mook who is stronger than the others...(s)he is often regarded as That. One. Boss
There will be an easy way and hard way to get to the mcgruffin, more often then not, you have the hard way.