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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4545667" data-attributes="member: 42582">Or one can describe damage before it is healed, and then describe healing not as the physical recovery of an injury, but as the psychological recovery of the capacity to fight.RC, you have never actually explained why you think that this is inadequate narration.Another terrific post. I'm a bit dissapointed that I (who already agree with you) seem to be the only one paying attention to your posts, as they actually demonstrate that no absurdity need be countenanced in narrating damage and healing in 4e.Two options. Be more careful how you narrate the original injury (as per Lost Soul's first exmple narration). Or be more ambitious in how you narrate the recovery of the will to fight (as per Lost Soul's second example narration)If you don't like a game in which one class (the paladin) is better able to perform selfless healing than another class (the cleric) then this particular aspect of 4e may not be for you. But this is not an objection to the 4e damage and healing mechanics per se. It is a quibble over a genre/flavour thing.</blockquote>