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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5877412" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, I wouldn't say 100 fights, but, don't most action heroes get through many, many fights without being wounded in any significant way?  I haven't seen the movies in ages, but, I don't recall Indiana Jones, Han Solo or James Bond spending any significant time healing wounds.  Even in LotR, other than Frodo, who takes any significant wounds that weren't fatal?  LeggyLass, Aragorn, even Gandalf get into fight after fight after fight and never suffer any real wounds (other than dying and being raised, of course <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).  Even the hobbits, again, other than Frodo, never really suffer any serious wounds that I recall.  (although, bringing up LotR is effectively Godwinning the thread, so I'm likely going to get proven wrong here)Taking a step to the left to action TV shows, characters in shows like Buffy or Angel rarely take any serious wounds, despite getting into combat every single episode.  Yes, I do realize that some do, from time to time, like Zander losing an eye, but, those are very much the exception and not the rule.  It becomes a standing joke in the series that Giles gets knocked out yet again in a fight, yet never suffers any lasting injury.There is a rather lengthy list of action stories where the protagonists get into many, many combats and yet suffer no lasting injury.  Pre-4e HP make this impossible because every injury is lasting - it takes several days to weeks to heal naturally.Isn't this a problem with the system?</blockquote>

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