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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redbadge" data-source="post: 5610450" data-attributes="member: 61463">Let me clarify my point. Let's say you take 3.5 exactly as it is with regards to the healing system. Now add one additional healing mechanic -- healing surges. In addition to regular 3.5 healing, characters can spend their healing surges, of which they have a limited number, to regain 1/4 their 3.5 hit points. They primarily spend these surges as a Second Wind and the end of short rests, which we would also add under this hypothetical change to 3.5. Say we didn't want this expansion to the healing system to be infinite, so we make it that the only way to restore "healing surges" are to take an extended rest. As an added benefit, instead of really slow healing each day, we'll go ahead and allow the character to restore all its hitpoints in addition to regaining back all its healing surges. Finally, as a bonus, we give all 3.5 healing classes an extra spell that they can use multiple times per encounter to allow these healing surges to be further used in combat. These spellcasters would retain their other, non-surge healing spells, which you must remember, have an arbitrary hard limit on the number of times they can be used per day. Not only have you given the 3.5 character a way to extend the adventuring day, with surges, but you also reduce the variability and need for DM adjustment. And of course, both this version of 3.5 and 4e both have access to other non-surge healing such as daily spells of Cure Light Wounds. And nothing precludes a charged wand of Cure Light Wounds in either system.</blockquote>

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