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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5923108" data-attributes="member: 1210">Sounds like you are arguing from your personal viewpoint to me.First of all, you are arguing for the way healing was MEANT to be run in 4e only. No other edition- especially the versions of the game closest to its very inception- has ever promoted "full healing on rest" before 4e.What, the tradition that old players have of recovering 1 hp per day? After all, that is the longest-standing traditional form of long-term healing by rest in D&D- it's the version that was official longest, that has been played longest and that strikes many, many gamers as least "gamist" and most "simulationist".You say changing it is inconsequential. We're talking about a playtest to form the rules. Deciding that it sucks for my game during the playtest allows me to give feedback to the designer and development groups that I don't like that style of healing and that the game ought to include slower, more simulationist options for healing. I would say it's easier to handwave the full-heal-with-rest than it is to create a system for less-than-full-healing-with-rest, so why don't you make the change to your game and just say, "Every long rest, you're back to full" instead of making me come up with a "Every long rest, you regain... er... your con modifier plus a HD of hps? Wait, maybe just your level in hps? Or...."The effects of full-heal-with-rest are most definitely not inconsequential for my game. The pace of the campaign is dramatically impacted by it.That's factually incorrect. They've always represented luck, skill and near misses for some of your hit points, but every edition has made it explicitly clear that some part of your hp total also measures your phyiscal ability to take punishment.In other words, if you don't die in combat, you're pretty much always up to full by the next day. The "long rest only if at least 1 hp" clause is effectively meaningless except inasmuch as it dictates timing.That is not how most of us run the game, nor is it how the game has actually been written, ever. The game has always assumed that hit points represent physical vitality as well as the other bits (luck etc). In fact, early versions suggest that a character knocked below 0 hps might come out of it with a horrible scar or other "this was a serious injury" reminder.Again, I fear you are arguing from personal viewpoint rather than objectively from the way the game is actually written.</blockquote>

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