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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 6069242" data-attributes="member: 8863">I reconcile it by telling myself it's a game abstration and then I stop worrying about it.As for the scaling issue, was that really a big problem pre-3e?  In AD&D, characters stopped adding Hit Dice around name level and only gained a small number of fixed hp/level afterwards.  Plus PCs and enemies had smaller hp totals in earlier editions too, 3e hp totals are pretty big in comparison.  And 3e has spell caps which didn't always exist in the past; I don't remember if the Cure X Wounds spells had caps (and that's just 2e, not 1e), but Heal didn't.  In 3e Heal capped at 150 hp, when a fighter or barbarian could have a great deal more than that.</blockquote>