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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 3203819" data-attributes="member: 259">As CRGreathouse said, hit points refer in part to actual damage and in part to ability to deflect damage--at least, that's how I tend to think of it.What I was describing would make the healer's skill the determining factor in the percentage of HP that the patient recovers.  It would take a healer 3 days to heal an unconscious mage or an unconscious fighter, roughly speaking, instead of taking a lot less time to heal the unconscious mage with 8 Con than it took to heal the unconscious barbarian with 20 con.It would work very similarly to the system you described, something like this:DC 20: Converts 1 hd +conFor every 5 points by which this DC is exceeded, one more HD+con of lethal damage are converted into nonlethal damage.Your average first level character with medic might have a total of +9 on their roll (4 ranks +3 wis +2 heal kit), meaning they'd need to spend 5-10 GP to heal someone as much as they could (i.e., 4 ranks worth).Your average 7th level PC with greater medic might have a total of +16 on their roll (10 ranks +4 wis +2 kit), meaning they could take 10 to heal someone 2HD+2xcon.  For clerics, rangers, monks, fighters, paladins, and barbarians, this is pretty likely to get them close to their max.  A second taking 10 would get them to their max (i.e., cure them 20 HP).  Rogues, bards, sorcerers, and wizards would probably need additional rolls.Hmm.  I just realized two things:1) My suggestion puts a greater emphasis on the max HP cured per day, whereas yours doesn't.  Maybe mine's not such a good idea after all!2) If I'm reading your rules correctly, it'd probably be much better for a healer always to take 10.  At 7th level, the healer I described could reliably take 10 to heal people under your system for 3d6 points of damage, and max out at 5d6 (nat 20+16=36), which will cure slightly less on average than the maximum of 20 points.  So the healer will almost always need to make two rolls & spend 10 gold to cure someone the full 20 points; they may as well take 10 both times.Daniel</blockquote>

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