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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vic20" data-source="post: 4508398" data-attributes="member: 1530">The movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369339/" target="_blank">Collateral</a> has a great scene that helped me during my first read of the 4E Players Handbook. (spoiler...) [spoiler]I may be misremembering the exact scene, but it's something like this:Max the cab driver decides to go all "super-double-nihilism back-in-your-face" at Vincent, and purposefully wrecks the cab at high speed. The car finally comes to a rest, and it's a hard call if it was even survivable. There are twisted forms in the wreckage, and blood and liquids everywhere, mixed with broken glass. Then there is a flickering of fingers, and Vincent somehow uncontorts himself from the mess. He manages to stand upright, and stiffly walks away. Soon after, Max frees himself and manages to get to his feet as well.At this point, they are both clearly well past bloodied, with very few hit points remaining. It also possible that either/both of them may gone into negative hit points, and used some sort of bad-ass Power to spend a surge back into positive. (Maybe there was a Warlord buddy in a phone booth 25 feet away.)Within minutes, both characters are at full strength, displaying scratches on their faces but engaged fully and physically in the action. Vincent in particular is a total killing machine, showing no weakness to betray the accident he just about crawled from. In 4E terms, they've both taken Short Rests and are at full or near full hit points.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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