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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 7589803" data-attributes="member: 6669384"><p>In D&D 3.5, where the "Short rest/Long Rest" mechanic didn't exist (i.e. people couldn't quickly recover hit points on their own), we tried a house rule on healing that seemed to work pretty well.</p><p></p><p>Standard for the Cure spells and effects was to roll some number of D8s and add caster level. The number, and the cap on caster level bonus were set by the level of the spell.</p><p></p><p>At issue was, of course, the fact that a Fighter who was beaten half to death (i.e. at half hit points) was harder to heal than a Wizard of the same level, and also harder to heal than a lower level fighter in the same condition. That is, it came down to what hit points really represent.</p><p></p><p>Our house rule was that instead of rolling D8s, we'd roll dice to match the character's hit dice size. Healing a Wiz? Roll D4s. Healing a Barb'? Roll D12s. We had to do a bit of math for mixed classes, to see what would be a fair average, but over all it worked out decently. Not perfectly, but better than book rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 7589803, member: 6669384"] In D&D 3.5, where the "Short rest/Long Rest" mechanic didn't exist (i.e. people couldn't quickly recover hit points on their own), we tried a house rule on healing that seemed to work pretty well. Standard for the Cure spells and effects was to roll some number of D8s and add caster level. The number, and the cap on caster level bonus were set by the level of the spell. At issue was, of course, the fact that a Fighter who was beaten half to death (i.e. at half hit points) was harder to heal than a Wizard of the same level, and also harder to heal than a lower level fighter in the same condition. That is, it came down to what hit points really represent. Our house rule was that instead of rolling D8s, we'd roll dice to match the character's hit dice size. Healing a Wiz? Roll D4s. Healing a Barb'? Roll D12s. We had to do a bit of math for mixed classes, to see what would be a fair average, but over all it worked out decently. Not perfectly, but better than book rules. [/QUOTE]
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