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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8626700" data-attributes="member: 7026594">If folks have ever watched boxing or MMA*, you'll be familiar with how a person can be beaten down and exhausted while showing relatively minor external physical injuries.&nbsp; Some bruising, reddening and swelling of particular areas struck, minor to moderate bleeding from fairly small cuts.&nbsp; Obviously swords and axes and maces and other weapons have much more ability to break bones and cause major gashes, cuts, and piercing wounds than gloved fists and striking legs, elbows and knees, but given that none of our D&amp;D heroes suffer injuries crippling them or impairing their mobility (unless we add optional rules), it's apparent that the fiction being simulated is of Action Movie-style injuries.&nbsp; Which are basically the same sort that boxers and MMA fighters are taking, except quicker to recover from. Healing spells and potions thus seem to primarily heal bruising, swelling and exhaustion, although there's nothing stopping them from healing more serious injuries if the fiction of your game includes those.&nbsp; *(Or armored combat/bohurt/steel fighting, where you mostly can't see the fighters' injuries at all under their head to toe plated mail armor; at least until they take it off)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 8626700, member: 7026594"] If folks have ever watched boxing or MMA*, you'll be familiar with how a person can be beaten down and exhausted while showing relatively minor external physical injuries. Some bruising, reddening and swelling of particular areas struck, minor to moderate bleeding from fairly small cuts. Obviously swords and axes and maces and other weapons have much more ability to break bones and cause major gashes, cuts, and piercing wounds than gloved fists and striking legs, elbows and knees, but given that none of our D&D heroes suffer injuries crippling them or impairing their mobility (unless we add optional rules), it's apparent that the fiction being simulated is of Action Movie-style injuries. Which are basically the same sort that boxers and MMA fighters are taking, except quicker to recover from. Healing spells and potions thus seem to primarily heal bruising, swelling and exhaustion, although there's nothing stopping them from healing more serious injuries if the fiction of your game includes those. *(Or armored combat/bohurt/steel fighting, where you mostly can't see the fighters' injuries at all under their head to toe plated mail armor; at least until they take it off) [/QUOTE]

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