I was playing Mage: The Awakening 2nd edition. I really like it but it's not super popular, so finding players is hard.
It sounds like it has the same way of modeling health. Adults have 5 + stamina health boxes. So your average person is 7, the strongest mortal in the world is 10. You have a pretty good idea that if you do nail that guy with a rifle shot, he's not getting up.
DND especially was frustrating to me when it was like "ok a veteran soldier... Does he have 10 HP? 20? 50? One attack? Two?". There's like no way to reliably reason from the narrative to the rules.