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<blockquote data-quote="roger semerad" data-source="post: 9223137" data-attributes="member: 6998612">I can't really speculate about anyone else's feelings on this, but here's how it worked out for me.&nbsp; I always thought of hit points as an abstraction and never liked, or really understood, the meat argument.&nbsp; After being on this site for a while I have since understood the meat side, but will never agree with it.&nbsp; This affected my reading of the HP healing affects greatly.&nbsp; When they alluded to healing actual wounds I always saw that as a holdover from older editions.&nbsp; I basically just mentally rewrote the effects in my head to not make those connections between wounds and HP, so that healing word power was rewritten to say something like; You whisper a quick prayer and your allies feel divine energy bolster them. My take on this is that 4th needed to take a firm stand on the HP issue, but that probably wouldn't have been well accepted either.&nbsp; Definitely better in my own opinion, but not well received overall. Taking this a bit further, I'd like to see an actual injury mechanic that kicks in when you go down to 0 HP.&nbsp; A simple debuff would be good for the first injury you take, every further injury you take before healing would roll on a chart with a chance of a serious injury happening.&nbsp; Healing these injuries would take a ritual to heal, making healing actual injuries a lengthy and costly affair.Edit: thinking about this possible injury rule, it's probably a little too punishing.&nbsp; Maybe making going to 0 HP force a roll on an injury table that has only a 25% chance for an actual minor injury to happen.&nbsp; These minor injuries could be cured by either a lv.1 ritual or a long rest, and they wouldn't stack.&nbsp; On a natural 1 you'd get a major injury that would require a higher level ritual to cure, or extended rest and doctor care.&nbsp; That would make going to 0HP scary without being too punishing. Maybe even that might be too much to keep 4th's feel though, so maybe it's not a good idea for the game.&nbsp; That's how I'd want magical healing to work in the game though. Making actual healing the realm of rituals exclusively, with HP being completely removed from the equation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roger semerad, post: 9223137, member: 6998612"] I can't really speculate about anyone else's feelings on this, but here's how it worked out for me. I always thought of hit points as an abstraction and never liked, or really understood, the meat argument. After being on this site for a while I have since understood the meat side, but will never agree with it. This affected my reading of the HP healing affects greatly. When they alluded to healing actual wounds I always saw that as a holdover from older editions. I basically just mentally rewrote the effects in my head to not make those connections between wounds and HP, so that healing word power was rewritten to say something like; You whisper a quick prayer and your allies feel divine energy bolster them. My take on this is that 4th needed to take a firm stand on the HP issue, but that probably wouldn't have been well accepted either. Definitely better in my own opinion, but not well received overall. Taking this a bit further, I'd like to see an actual injury mechanic that kicks in when you go down to 0 HP. A simple debuff would be good for the first injury you take, every further injury you take before healing would roll on a chart with a chance of a serious injury happening. Healing these injuries would take a ritual to heal, making healing actual injuries a lengthy and costly affair. Edit: thinking about this possible injury rule, it's probably a little too punishing. Maybe making going to 0 HP force a roll on an injury table that has only a 25% chance for an actual minor injury to happen. These minor injuries could be cured by either a lv.1 ritual or a long rest, and they wouldn't stack. On a natural 1 you'd get a major injury that would require a higher level ritual to cure, or extended rest and doctor care. That would make going to 0HP scary without being too punishing. Maybe even that might be too much to keep 4th's feel though, so maybe it's not a good idea for the game. That's how I'd want magical healing to work in the game though. Making actual healing the realm of rituals exclusively, with HP being completely removed from the equation. [/QUOTE]

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