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I don't get the dislike of healing surges
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<blockquote data-quote="Jefe Bergenstein" data-source="post: 5697408" data-attributes="member: 31506"><p>If you've never needed to abstract HP, you've been willfully ignoring the advice of the game-makers since as long as I can remember, which is to abstract them, and that they represent a collection of things.</p><p> </p><p>Incidentally, Rolemaster is thataway with its Lesser Nasal Repair" spells if you wantto nitpick every wound. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Only if you intentionally view it that way. Back in my day though, gamers had imagination, instead of needing everything as concretely described as possible. Its called narrative play. Your surges represent your ability to keep the character alive. You describe how its done. Either it really was just a scratch, and you bonked your head for a few minutes, it looked worse than it was, etc. The system gives you big boy pants, and you can describe it how you want. If you wet yourself because you cant think beyond spamming the Cure Light Wounds button and blame the system, oh well. <strong><span style="color: Red"><= this is the kind of insults that get you a ban from ENworld. Don't do it people. Plane Sailing, ENworld admin</span></strong></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Or just not get seriously hurt. Which is what not being killed is. If you arent dead, its nothing a little </p><p> </p><p>And due to the power clerics have in combat, I've never seen a group where somebody didn't want to play cleric. We've never seen a situation where a cleric was not desired by someone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jefe Bergenstein, post: 5697408, member: 31506"] If you've never needed to abstract HP, you've been willfully ignoring the advice of the game-makers since as long as I can remember, which is to abstract them, and that they represent a collection of things. Incidentally, Rolemaster is thataway with its Lesser Nasal Repair" spells if you wantto nitpick every wound. Only if you intentionally view it that way. Back in my day though, gamers had imagination, instead of needing everything as concretely described as possible. Its called narrative play. Your surges represent your ability to keep the character alive. You describe how its done. Either it really was just a scratch, and you bonked your head for a few minutes, it looked worse than it was, etc. The system gives you big boy pants, and you can describe it how you want. If you wet yourself because you cant think beyond spamming the Cure Light Wounds button and blame the system, oh well. [B][COLOR="Red"]<= this is the kind of insults that get you a ban from ENworld. Don't do it people. Plane Sailing, ENworld admin[/COLOR][/B] Or just not get seriously hurt. Which is what not being killed is. If you arent dead, its nothing a little And due to the power clerics have in combat, I've never seen a group where somebody didn't want to play cleric. We've never seen a situation where a cleric was not desired by someone. [/QUOTE]
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