Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 3077304" data-attributes="member: 1331">We tried something like this in our previous campaign, in a low-magic world. It seemed a cool idea at the time, but it didn't work for us because we removed regular cures entirely.In that world, each cure spell was replaced by a &quot;close wounds&quot; spell one level lower, which converted the same number of d8s of lethal damage into nonlethal damage. (That is, close light wounds was a 0-level spell that converted 1d8+level points.) The problem was, this type of healing turned out to be useless during combat. If you've got 20 hit points and have taken 19 points of damage, changing all that to nonlethal damage doesn't help you; you're still going down after the next hit.We players got frustrated and asked to restart in a new campaign. If anyone else manages to get this type of ability to work and be balanced, I'd love to hear about it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AuraSeer, post: 3077304, member: 1331"] We tried something like this in our previous campaign, in a low-magic world. It seemed a cool idea at the time, but it didn't work for us because we removed regular [i]cure[/i]s entirely. In that world, each [i]cure[/i] spell was replaced by a "close wounds" spell one level lower, which converted the same number of d8s of lethal damage into nonlethal damage. (That is, [i]close light wounds[/i] was a 0-level spell that converted 1d8+level points.) The problem was, this type of healing turned out to be useless during combat. If you've got 20 hit points and have taken 19 points of damage, changing all that to nonlethal damage doesn't help you; you're still going down after the next hit. We players got frustrated and asked to restart in a new campaign. If anyone else manages to get this type of ability to work and be balanced, I'd love to hear about it. [/QUOTE]

Verification