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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9199721" data-attributes="member: 8461">No, even by your own explanations, you're wrong. Given how self-evident that is, I'm honestly not sure why you can't see that, but I'll try and walk you through it anyway.That's not what happens in the fiction (hence the term "healing" in the power's name).My guess is that you're confused because you just read the blurb on page 61 of the PHB – "Using the healing word power, clerics can grant their comrades additional resilience with nothing more than a short prayer." – and (apparently) stopped there. Now, that certainly sounds like it could be interpreted as having the target character "dig deep into their reserves," but it clashes with the text on the very next page, where the healing word power is presented, and where the italicized text gives the in-character presentation for what healing word does:You whisper a brief prayer as divine light washes over your target, helping to mend its wounds.That's not "dig deep into their reserves" by any measure, since it literally describes it as wounds being mended. And yet the target character is the one who spends a healing surge.This is the best proof of my point that you could ask for, as 4E says that hit point restoration via the very same mechanic is one thing (tapping into a personal reserve to regain combat capability) on one page, and then immediately turns around and says that it's something else (a cleric's using divine power to close wounds) on the next page. That's flat-out inconsistent, and openly portrays the double duty that 4E has hit points doing.And yet you've amply demonstrated how a single mechanic is being employed, and given the best example yet of 4E's cognitive gap on display. Thanks for that!</blockquote>

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