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Why the HP Threshold on Spells is a Bad Idea
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<blockquote data-quote="Ratskinner" data-source="post: 6022782" data-attributes="member: 6688937"><p>I do not consider the cognitive dissonances caused by pre-4th edition healing magic to be "taking care of it." Its just that we're so used to it that we don't balk at them.</p><p></p><p>So, Frank the Fighter and Charlie the Cleric have just gotten through a scrape with a dragon which left Frank with 20 of his 60 hp. Thankfully, Charlie has just cast a healing spell on him:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Frank: Hey Charlie, that was pretty good. What spell was that?</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Charlie: <em>Cure Critical Wounds.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Frank: !....A bit of overkill if you ask me, I was only dinged up a bit.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Charlie: uh, yeah, Frank, but...like...you're pretty heroic. You had sustained wounds that would've killed a normal man.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Frank: erm...I <em>am</em> a normal man, Charlie. I'm just a normal man who has learned how to keep his shield up... Waitaminit! You remember when we had just started out and that orc chieftain KO'd me. Everybody thought I was a goner?</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Charlie: Yeah...</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Frank: You brought me back fit-as-a-fiddle then, too. What spell'd you use for that?</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Charlie: umm...well...<em>Cure Light Wounds</em>. It was all I could...</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Frank: How in Hades does that make any sense!? I'm knocking on Valhalla's door and you cast <em>Cure <u>Light</u> Wounds, </em>but today I'm a little scratched up with a twisted ankle and you come up with <em>Cure <u>Critical</u> Wounds?</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Charlie: uh...its magic?</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Frank: Wut?</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Charlie: Its magic.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>I'll grant you, this can be fixed quite easily with some renaming, or reworking of the spell functions, but still.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ratskinner, post: 6022782, member: 6688937"] I do not consider the cognitive dissonances caused by pre-4th edition healing magic to be "taking care of it." Its just that we're so used to it that we don't balk at them. So, Frank the Fighter and Charlie the Cleric have just gotten through a scrape with a dragon which left Frank with 20 of his 60 hp. Thankfully, Charlie has just cast a healing spell on him: [INDENT]Frank: Hey Charlie, that was pretty good. What spell was that? Charlie: [I]Cure Critical Wounds.[/I] Frank: !....A bit of overkill if you ask me, I was only dinged up a bit. Charlie: uh, yeah, Frank, but...like...you're pretty heroic. You had sustained wounds that would've killed a normal man. Frank: erm...I [I]am[/I] a normal man, Charlie. I'm just a normal man who has learned how to keep his shield up... Waitaminit! You remember when we had just started out and that orc chieftain KO'd me. Everybody thought I was a goner? Charlie: Yeah... Frank: You brought me back fit-as-a-fiddle then, too. What spell'd you use for that? Charlie: umm...well...[I]Cure Light Wounds[/I]. It was all I could... Frank: How in Hades does that make any sense!? I'm knocking on Valhalla's door and you cast [I]Cure [U]Light[/U] Wounds, [/I]but today I'm a little scratched up with a twisted ankle and you come up with [I]Cure [U]Critical[/U] Wounds?[/I] Charlie: uh...its magic? Frank: Wut? Charlie: Its magic. [/INDENT]I'll grant you, this can be fixed quite easily with some renaming, or reworking of the spell functions, but still. [/QUOTE]
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