Raven Crowking
First Post
Then I guess, you've never read any of the numerous threads about 4e healing surges and/or warlords with their martial healing powers.
He wasn't necessarily talking about a thread here. I've heard that argument several times over the years (in person), including (IIRC) in Dragon forum letters?
I have participated in a number of threads on the topic of 4e healing surges; no one has ever put forth the claim that "hit points were *always* about pure damage, and nothing more" in any of them AFAICT. Without a link, I suspect that this is either misremembering (which, certainly, I am guilty of from time to time as well) or misreading.
The argument has always been, AFIACT and IMHO and IME, that pre-4e hit points always contain some element of damage (not "*always* about pure damage, and nothing more"), whereas 4e hit points may or may not contain some element of damage, which is the case being determined at the time those hit points are healed, rather than at the time those hit points are taken.
(And I don't mean to reopen the entire can of worms, because it has been hashed to death, and there are some creative answers to this "problem" [for those who see it as such] out there already.)
RC