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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 4639127" data-attributes="member: 23977">See again, I see this as someone choosing to view HP as only intended to model physical damage (even if poorly.)Characters aren't healing HP like trolls. The game is simply returning the players ability to not be dead. In story this can be anything you want it to be. A good nights sleep, a good set of bandages, an inspiring speach. Whatever. The characetrs ability to not get killed is returned.Thats the thing of it for me. It's the ability to not get killed vers the ability to "take a lot of damage."There's no slow recovery of injuries mechanic because I feel the game doesn't need it in a  similar way that it doesn't need a mechanic to determine if you fall in love, or dislike fish, or get cancer.Those types of things (in my opinion) are best when introduced as an out of norm effect, and not just an effect with a random chance of occuring.If Bob and his DM want to explore the possibility of Bob's character loosing a leg in battle cool. Bob having a 5% chance of loosing his leg everyfight... not so great.That said, I don't think it's wrong for someone to want to play with those things being random occurances, but I don't think D&D has ever really been that game, and I don't think the majority of players want to play it that way.So I think the burdon of altering it should be on the smaller population.I also think 4e also offers a number of rules already that you can modify to meet these needs.</blockquote>

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