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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fifth Element" data-source="post: 4544855" data-attributes="member: 48135">Yes, obviously. You see this if you look at hit points bottom-up, and see that Gary's hit points far exceed Bob's.But from a different perspective (top-down), you see that Bob recovers from being nearly dead in the same amount of time Gary takes to recover from a scratch.This is what I mean by a difference of interpretation. I think it's valid for you to look at whether your character is "fully healed", i.e., at maximum fighting capacity. And from that perspective you get an absurd result because this wound that you narrated legitimately as a scratch takes several full days of rest to go away.My point (which you seem to have skipped over) is, an abstract system like this is going to lead absurd results at times. You're looking at the 1E system in a way that leads to a relatively small number of absurd results. But you're looking at the 4E system in a way that leads to a relatively large number of absurd results.4E has an advantage in the resting-to-full-strength arena, since the hit points you regain are based on healing surges, which scale with your maximum hit points. (I believe they overdid it with the overnight rest healing everything, but that's just a matter of degree.) So if you choose to look at the time it takes to heal wounds in this way, 1E is far more absurd than 4E.Notice I said if you choose to look at it that way. If you choose to look at 4E's system in a way that maximizes absurd results, you're going to find a lot of absurd results. But that's your choice. Don't assume it's hardwired into the system, because it isn't. I can find all kinds of absurd results in 1E, if I choose to see them that way.So your constant "you're looking at 1E hit points wrong" assertions really hurt your cause, because the same charges could be leveled at you with respect to 4E. We're looking at them differently than you, but to deny that there are different ways to look at them is folly.</blockquote>

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