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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fenriswolf456" data-source="post: 5952457" data-attributes="member: 6687664">It certainly would be without taking the context of the word into consideration, or rule explanations. Otherwise, we could just as well be speaking about how popular a song is, or taking tokes on a spliff, and how does a 'hit' narrow to a sharp tapered end?  It always seemed pretty clear to me that damage meant a loss of hit points, and healing meant to regain hit points, with 'hit points' being a measure of the damage your character can take before reaching the unconscious, dying or dead states. There's no need to go fishing through dictionaries to figure out what the game is using these terms for. Even if we ignore the fact, that I'm sure every edition has stated, that a hit is simply equalling or surpassing the target's defense, most definitions of hit seem to indicate it is a 'blow'. Would this mean that things like touch attacks could never actually 'hit' something? Now if every 'hit' draws blood for you, that's fine. Most of my hits do the same; cuts, scratches, bruises, etc. But we can talk about hits to intangible things; "taking a hit to morale", "her leaving like that hit him hard", and damage and healing can be emotional and/or spiritual in nature. Nor do I think there is an issue with a character taking say psychic damage, which would inflict no physical wound, or need a physical blow to actually hit in the first place. And in looking over definitions and rules, I'm now interested to see if there is any written rule about magical healing actually sealing up and removing physical wounds from a person. Most of what I see is talk that healing, even magical, simply "restores hit points", or the characters "regains X hit points". The closest I see is some spells 'curing' X hit points. I don't have access to 2E or older editions, and it's been 15+ years since I've played those, so I have no certainty on any actual descriptions of magical healing.</blockquote>

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