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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 5921319" data-attributes="member: 12386">There's clearly room for compromise here.  I think most people would agree that regaining everything in one night isn't absolutely necessary for maintaining dramatic tension, and that most would also agree that regaining 1-4 hp a night is also unnecessary to reflect pseudo-reality.How about a full night's rest gets you back all your hit dice, but you must spend them to get to half hit points.  Once you do, the remainder (the luck/skill ones) are fully healed by the night rest.Example: Ironwolf the fighter has 80hp and 10d12 hit dice.   She is forced down to 20hp at the end of the day.  After a night's rest, she has to roll d12's until she gets to 40.  It takes her 4 dice rolls to get there.  She wakes up with 80hp and 6d12 hit dice available, and will need further rest to recover from the previous days' trials.Heck, also penalize a drop below 0hp by immediately taking away one hit dice.Just one example.  There's plenty of creative space here to reflect both sides to a certain extent.</blockquote>