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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 4467433" data-attributes="member: 1656">So what do you do in 3E when the 80 hit point fighter is dropped to 5 hit points and doesn't get any magical healing for a week, and can't rest the requisite 8 uninterrupted hours to recover hit points?Do you impose penalties on him for being injured?  The system doesn't.  Can he soldier on at 5 hit points?  The system allows him to.There are no mechanical consequences in the rules for being low on hit points... so if you described those 75 points of damage as a smashed shoulder, a gut wound, and a broken leg, then you need to introduce house rules to cover the effects of a broken leg.And if you said "gut wound", assuming that the cleric would heal him in a round or two, and then the cleric dies before he has a chance, you're left with a fighter you've described as having a gut wound, and you either have to invent rules to cover the mechanical effects, or you have to let him soldier on for the next week, or you have to retcon the description.How is that any better than the problems you have with 4E?-Hyp.</blockquote>