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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 4630846" data-attributes="member: 48965">Here's how I always interpreted that disparity in 3e ... You see one of the adventurers is just starting out and thus he doesn't have the life experience to have alot of moxie, skill, divine favor, luck, etc..  His hit points are almost literally purely physical (with those who have a higher hit die like Fighters and Barbarians having a slightly increased physical capacity.)  This is why he can be killed in one blow or by a critical, etc..  The other adventurer has been around, knows what to look for as far as danger, is favored by certain deities, is extremely lucky, etc.  So while he might have the same or slightly more actual physical hit points than the first... he has way more of the metaphysical hit points.  Now the length of healing I explain like this...Adventurer 1 is wet behind the ears, and those 8 hp's are his actual physical healing.... He knows he's a scrub, and knows he was lucky to survive that battle... the fact that he was beaten within an inch of his life and survived is what allows him to even start to amass the extreme metaphysical reserves of someone with 300 hp's so it is not a blow to his ego... and didn't shake the little bit of confidence he had as badly as it would have a seasoned and powerful sword master. Adventurer 2 on the other hand may have 8 actual "physical" hit points (probably a little more) but he also needs to mentally and spiritually heal.  Until now his confidence in his bad-assitude was unshaken, he believed his sword form flawless, his faith in his deities protection unshakeable, etc.  Yet he failed, or was mortally wounded, driven to near death.  For someone who has amassed 300 hp's that's a major blow to their very being and it's like going through a depression.  But when he finally gets right after that month of refocusing, healing his injuries and reaffirming his beliefs... well he's back to bad-assitude land and doing things adventurer 1 could only dream about attempting.The problem with 4e is that there is no longer a differentiation between the damage types.  I can be in numerous life or death fights where I am knocked unconscious and, per the rules, dying in 4e... and 5 minutes later I am totally healed of not just the metaphysical but the physical aspects of that damage as well.  In fact as long as I don't run out of healing surges I can go a whole day of fighting and make any longterm damage disappear by tomorrow (everyone really is a spellcaster now.).  Finally we have the Warlord whose hollering and postering also heals my wounds both physical and metaphysical.  I...feel...any type of verisimilitude...cracking...as my mind tries to connect any of this in a rational way.   For me this heads into the realm of cartoons, and I mean Looney Tunes, not Avatar.</blockquote>

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