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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidSnide" data-source="post: 5705667" data-attributes="member: 54710">This thread definitely clarified my thinking about healing surges, albeit not enough to justify the time I spent reading (or skimming) it.  My two cents:- I really like how healing surges make healing proportionate to the toughness of a character.  Now, curing a light wound actually cures a light wound as opposed to the sucking chest wound / paper cut problem.  Also, as a tactical matter, characters with more hit points can survive longer in combat even in an environment where healing dominates starting hit points.  I think this significant mechanical improvement was a little lost in the massive discussion of narrative implications.- I also like how healing became something accessible through heroic (in additional to magical) means.  As a general matter, I think it opens D&D to a wider range of party types as well as low-magic (or just low-divine magic) settings.  But...- I don't like how healing surges work once the character is reduced to zero hit points.  Healing characters once they go down is important (after all - combats get more exciting once characters go down), and I get why "healing starts from 0" instead of the current negative value.  However, I agree with the narrative issue: if a character is making death saves, I really want to narrate that character as having a life-threatening wound and the ready availability of non-magical healing white washes the wound a little too much for my taste.Personally, I'd prefer some sort of optional wound/condition track that acknowledges that going to zero, going to negative surge value and/or failing death saves involves some sort of more permanent injury.  (A disease-track style solution was discussed above.  I'd be fine with that, but am not wedded to it.)  I don't mind if characters can "pull through" their injury with few mechanical penalties, but I really wish there was support for games where PCs have a higher incentive to pull back and heal after members get really smacked around.But I do think this should be optional.  There is also plenty of room for games where the heroes keep pressing on, and the wounds they've received are nothing but make up...-KS</blockquote>

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