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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5697131" data-attributes="member: 58197">Abstraction is not the issue here. From moment to moment, I can tell a coherent story about what's happening in combat with the 10th-level fighter. Each hit is a bruise or a minor injury, and then when the final blow takes the fighter to zero, it's a deadly and life-threatening wound.I can't do that with HSes. When the fighter drops to zero in 4E, she goes into a Schrodinger's Box where the severity of the wound is undetermined till she either dies or spends a healing surge. What's going on with her while she's in the box? I don't know. Nobody does. Nobody can.Now, are there places where traditional hit points don't tell a consistent story? Sure there are. Falling damage is the most common example, where people calmly step off fifty-foot cliffs because they know they have enough hit points to get up and walk away. And you know, those rough spots are exactly the ones people have been grumbling and griping about for decades. House rules for falling damage sprout like weeds.I think most people who object to healing surges have the same problem I described, but many haven't consciously worked out what it is that rubs them the wrong way. (It took me several false starts before I figured out what I wanted to post to this thread.) They just know healing surges don't sit right somehow, and that not-sitting-right has to do with the surges not matching what they imagine going on in the game world. So they call healing surges "unrealistic."</blockquote>

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