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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4469220" data-attributes="member: 710">Well, you think of "packing action" into one encounter per session, I think of packing action in multiple encounters per session. The system requires a different degree of robustness (both from a purely mechanical POV and from the character POV). This means:- Each encounter must be challenging. Otherwise it doesn't feel action-packed.- The party must have a reasonable (high) chance to go on after each encounter. (despite being challenged, e.g. facing character death)I think this definitely explains why you don't need a different system.The 3E system manages to do this only to a very limited extent - hit points after combat where no problem thanks to Cure Light Wound Wands, but this creates a high dependency on magic items or pm (divine) spellcasters - and since a lot of spells are needed in challenging encounters (as you say - going nova), you can't do it often. The high reliance on magical items might be a mere flavor issue - if you are fine with a strong economy around Wands of CLW or strong reliance on Clerics, you could ignore that and just "fix" the spellcaster problem. But the design team decided that wasn't what they wanted, because the "Magic Item Christmas Tree" and the difficulties of creating a low-magic campaign were discussed and criticized a lot.Yet they still decided to keep hit points. (Maybe they believed it couldn't be D&D without them?). So they came up with healing surges. What other mechanics would work in this context?---The only remaining thing I have to say is that I doubt that you would have such big problems with the system in practice. 1) You are already using Book of Nine Swords. So you are perfectly fine with "martial" characters using supernatural powers. All problems with Schrödingers hit points and ret-conning are gone if you just assume that it's sword magic.2) The major instance where these problems come into play are during combat and assuming that some character drops to 0 hit points and is also increased beyond 0 hp. The party just has to avoid that ever happening. <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=";)" />But of course, there is no need for a change if you're happy with what you've got.</blockquote>

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