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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9199511" data-attributes="member: 42582">It seems that (again) you're not familiar with 4e D&D's healing mechanics.A warlord's Inspiring Word requires expenditure of a healing surge by the healing character. In the fiction, the warlord encourages the character to dig deep into their reserves.A cleric's Healing Word is mechanically the same as Inspiring Word. In the fiction, the cleric speaks a prayer and the character is able to dig deep into their reserves.A paladin's Lay on Hands enable the paladin to spend a healing surge, so that the character onto whom hands are laid regains a surges's worth of hp. In the fiction, the paladin prays, and digs deep into their reserves and gives of them, such that the other character miraculously recovers their will and capacity to fight on.A cleric's Cure Light Wounds does not require any one to spend a healing surge, and allows the recipient character to regain a surge's worth of hp. In the fiction, the cleric prays and the divinity miraculously restores a character's will and capacity to fight on.There is no "single mechanic" here, and no "cognitive gap:".</blockquote>