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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3845181" data-attributes="member: 8439">Seriously, if it's that big an issue with metagaming, I think it would be just as good to house rule that the abilities that can be used while Bloodied can be used unbloodied by taking a full round action (or if it's already a full round action, 2 rounds). The increased action represents the character mentally 'psyching himself up' to emulate the stress conditions that Bloodied abstracts. (And I do think it's metagaming to a large extent. A person who manages to lift something heavy in a house fire to escape is not going to say "hey, I should totally be able to lift that much when I want to! Fine, can I set the weight sets on fire?!?!" The image of a barbarian intentionally slicing a gash across his chest to draw on that deep energy is compelling, but a specialization of a character, not something a normal (sane  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) person does because the player wants an early boost. Take a "self bloodied" feat, or make a concentration check without it if you want to self mutilate.)</blockquote>