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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 3180954" data-attributes="member: 548">I believe spell levels are part of the jargon of various spellcasting classes (the jargon being different in different regions/classes).  While characters do not necessarily know what Hit Points are, in my opinion most adventurers learn how to measure their health fairly quickly.  Characters with high HP have a high "specific heat" - that is, it takes a lot more energy to either hurt or heal them.  Characters with healing spells have a good idea what their friends' "specific heats" are, and have less knowledge of people they don't know so well.So a cleric that is healing a dying man he just met will only know that a Cure Minor is enough to stablize him, and anything else is just a guess.  This can create some interesting situations if the man is the BBEG (or powerful ally) in disguise, because he has to remember to make his apparent state of health part of the disguise (the cleric will be awfully suspicious if the guy soaks up a Heal and still looks seriously wounded)!</blockquote>