Healing monsters without healing serges

[HealingAura]

Can you heal a monster without healing surges? (most of the monsters don't have any)

So far, when a character healed a monster without a healing surge, I added 1/4 of the monster's HP plus any bonus from the character.

 

[Mirtek]

Monsters have healing surges based on tier. Heroic tier monster have 1 surge, paragon tier monsters have 2 surges and epic tier monsters have 3 surges.

Unless specifically written in the monster's stats a monster has no ability to use it's healing surges and has to rely on someone else enabling it to use one.

 

[Flipguarder]

1. Does healing monsters happen regularly in your campaign?
2. Monsters have 1 healing surge for each tier.

level 5 has one healing surge.
level 15 has two healing surges.
level 25 has three healing surges.

Sorry I can't come up with the source but I'm fairly confident thats the rule.

 

[HealingAura]

When you give the party some allies to protect or a pet with monster stats, it happens. Also, do NPCs/Monsters heal all damage after extended rest?

 

[keterys]

Very early in the monster manual I believe it talks about healing surges, but Mirtek and Flipguarder have it right.

I believe, though I haven't checked, that extended rests don't limit their effects to just PCs. If it doesn't say it does... then poof, works on npcs/monsters if you want it to.

 

[Mort_Q]

Also, do NPCs/Monsters heal all damage after extended rest?

If the plot warrants it.

 

[UltimaGabe]

If the plot warrants it.

Exactly. If an NPC (monster or not) suffers a grievous wound, if the plot says that such a wound can't be healed without something specific happening, it doesn't get healed, extended rest or not.

 

[Flipguarder]

If the plot warrants it.

Translation:

If the DM warrants it.

 

[CapnZapp]

Can you heal a monster without healing surges? (most of the monsters don't have any)

So far, when a character healed a monster without a healing surge, I added 1/4 of the monster's HP plus any bonus from the character.

No you can't heal a monster with no surges much you can't heal a PC with no surges.

However, all monsters start out with 1-3 surges as explained by the Monster Manual.

They aren't listed because so very few monster have any way of using them. Being healed by a PC would still work exactly as you've described, though.

The related subject is "what about a monster who is wounded and runs away?"

There aren't any official rule governing this, so by RAW I guess the answer is "A monster can't heal itself unless it has a healer ally. Period."

However, I have seen guidelines in Dungeon adventures that say stuff like "if X runs away and the party takes a short rest, X regains 1/4 hp" and "if the party takes an extended rest, all monsters are fully healed".

I certainly find that kind of advice very sensible (taking rests should cost the PCs), and I'll recommend you adopting them as houserules.

 

[HarbingerX]

There aren't any official rule governing this, so by RAW I guess the answer is "A monster can't heal itself unless it has a healer ally. Period."

However, I have seen guidelines in Dungeon adventures that say stuff like "if X runs away and the party takes a short rest, X regains 1/4 hp" and "if the party takes an extended rest, all monsters are fully healed".

I certainly find that kind of advice very sensible (taking rests should cost the PCs), and I'll recommend you adopting them as houserules.

While most monsters don't have a way of spending healing surges during an encounter, a short rest allows healing surges to be spent - I had just assumed this applies to monsters as well.