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<blockquote data-quote="alanpossible" data-source="post: 4387975" data-attributes="member: 67772">And then you have to deal with the equal number of confused newbie Paladins saying &quot;But I USED a healing surge. Using a healing surge gives me hit points so I heal the target AND myself.&quot;Some concepts are hard to express unambiguously. It becomes even harder if you want to cover every possible use of something and harder still if you want it to be easy to follow. I won't even get in to the issue of people who are unfamiliar with the knowledge domain.Look at legalese. It's generally designed to be all-covering and unambiguous and we still employ expensive lawyers to interpret it for us, to make sure we've understood it and make sure we're following it as written.Personally, I find those RAW to be fine. If your other interpretation were correct, what would be the point of a power? Who would ever use a power to drain their healing surges for no benefit? If it wasn't intended that the Paladin could heal themselves, it would say &quot;Target: One ally&quot; or &quot;Target: One creature, except the caster&quot;. Clearly, the only other possibility is that the Paladin can heal themselves with it. That has to be the RAI.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="alanpossible, post: 4387975, member: 67772"] And then you have to deal with the equal number of confused newbie Paladins saying "But I USED a healing surge. Using a healing surge gives me hit points so I heal the target AND myself." Some concepts are hard to express unambiguously. It becomes even harder if you want to cover every possible use of something and harder still if you want it to be easy to follow. I won't even get in to the issue of people who are unfamiliar with the knowledge domain. Look at legalese. It's generally designed to be all-covering and unambiguous and we still employ expensive lawyers to interpret it for us, to make sure we've understood it and make sure we're following it as written. Personally, I find those RAW to be fine. If your other interpretation were correct, what would be the point of a power? Who would ever use a power to drain their healing surges for no benefit? If it wasn't intended that the Paladin could heal themselves, it would say "Target: One ally" or "Target: One creature, except the caster". Clearly, the only other possibility is that the Paladin can heal themselves with it. That has to be the RAI. [/QUOTE]

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