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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 3734114" data-attributes="member: 1645">Yes, but the current rules yield a tremendously useful short-term resource for very little cost in long-term resources -- because a wand of cure light wound delivers so many hit points per gold piece.I doubt that was an explicit design decision; it just happened.I hate to let Real Life intrude, but why is health an ablative resource at all?  Soldiers certainly get fatigued, and they collect bumps and bruises, but most injuries either don't matter, because they are just bumps and bruises, or they take a guy out of the fight.Why not make a typical hit into a Fort save vs. disabling, but allow hit points, maybe renamed, to work as a meta-game luck resource, like action points, for making those saves?  (Then they could also work versus save-or-die spells.)</blockquote>