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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2278571" data-attributes="member: 8158">Looks like it uses the "reserve point" system outlined in Unearthed Arcana (though it may have originated elsewhere). You have a pool of reserve points equal to your hit points. You can expend the reserve points to replenish hit points over time, at the rate of 1 per minute IIRC. The reserve points themselves recover at the same rate that hit points normally do (character level per day). That can be pretty grim, because the reserve points don't kick in during fights, only afterwards. Of course, you do run into an odd situation where the less durable characters recuperate back to full health faster than the tougher characters, but that's always been an idiosyncrasy of the hit point system. I think there's a distinction that needs to be made here. Saying that IL isn't grim-n'-gritty isn't the same thing as condemning it for lacking grim or grit. But if it produces characters that are more in Xena's league than Conan's, let's make sure the right allusions are being made.</blockquote>