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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5919265" data-attributes="member: 42582">I quite like the idea that recovery is easier, or greater, if the conditions are more propitious. Linking it to the number of HD that may be expended - unless that is expressed as a ratio - will still produce the &quot;low levels heal more&quot; thing that is pre-3E mundane healing (and pre-4e magical healing).What you describe here works for me in Runequest or Rolemaster. As in, I can see how the game gives me the resources to answer those questions, and then render those answers in mechanical terms.I find it harder to do for D&amp;D, because to hit bonuses, saving throw bonuses and hit points all seem to have a meta-element (and I think the degree of meta-element increases as one runs through that list). How much meta should a given opponent have? 4e answers, in effect, &quot;Enough to provide a numerically satisfying encounter, within such-and-such a tolerance range&quot;. I've got nothing in principle against a different answer, but what is that different answer going to be?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5919265, member: 42582"] I quite like the idea that recovery is easier, or greater, if the conditions are more propitious. Linking it to the number of HD that may be expended - unless that is expressed as a ratio - will still produce the "low levels heal more" thing that is pre-3E mundane healing (and pre-4e magical healing). What you describe here works for me in Runequest or Rolemaster. As in, I can see how the game gives me the resources to answer those questions, and then render those answers in mechanical terms. I find it harder to do for D&D, because to hit bonuses, saving throw bonuses and hit points all seem to have a meta-element (and I think the degree of meta-element increases as one runs through that list). How much meta should a given opponent have? 4e answers, in effect, "Enough to provide a numerically satisfying encounter, within such-and-such a tolerance range". I've got nothing in principle against a different answer, but what is that different answer going to be? [/QUOTE]

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