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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 4100885" data-attributes="member: 12386">I agree with you, but there is a fundamental problem that pretty much precludes it in RPGs- in a script, a long term injury can be manipulated into oblivion in terms of fulfilling the plot- the hero breaks his foot in the ultimate encounter, but remembers the venerable "crane on a dock pole" technique and slams the guy with his OTHER foot.In D&D, though, there is no script, no Deus Ex Machina that would rescue our heroes (without usually ruining the game, that is).  If our cleric-less party gets beaten to within a hair's breadth of its life and needs to rest three days to recover, then that princess that will be executed in 12 hours is out of luck.I know that there should be consequences of not having a healer in the party in 3.5e, and I know that time-critical missions are hard to pull off in 3.5e.  I'm willing to abstract away "serious injuries" (which, let's be honest, aren't so real-life serious if they just need a couple of days under a physician's care to go away) for those tropes to be available to me as a DM.  I want Conan to work in D&D.  He hasn't before, but I have some hope that 4e will change that.  I think the recuperation time is a trivial price to pay.  And I say that recognizing that it isn't so trivial for you.  Fortunately, this appears to be fairly easy to house rule.I for one hope there will be rules for them.</blockquote>