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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5622855" data-attributes="member: 42582">It wouldn't per se. But those are SU, or at least EX, abilities. Healing by way of bedrest isn't traditionally put into that category in D&D. After all, it normally appears under the heading "natural healing".Now if someone wanted to run a mid-to-high level D&D game in this sort of fashion - where all PCs and NPCs above a certain level do have supernatural or extraordinary regenerative capacities - I could see how that could be made to work, although it wouldn't be a game I particularly want to play. (Crucial to the crucifixion scene in Conan, for example, is that Conan is just a natural human, who is able to do what he does without having supernatural abilities.)I think the adrenaline idea can work, to an extent, to reconcile me to the absence of a death spiral from the traditional D&D hit point mechanics. But it doesn't help me understand how, days later, the PC can jump out of bed and be all hale and hearty when (i) any adrenaline surge must have ended by now, and (ii) any broken limbs would not yet have had time to heal.This is why I take the view that hit point loss, at least until one gets into the negatives (which are handled differently in AD&D if not in 3E), is only light wounds. (Another, more tongue-in-cheek, reason is that all hit point loss can be healed by Cure Light Wounds - that is, no injuries are suffered that a mere healing of light wounds couldn't relieve, if applied sufficiently many times.)</blockquote>

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