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<blockquote data-quote="Envisioner" data-source="post: 7962710" data-attributes="member: 6749263"><p>The first part of this sounded like a ridiculous question that nobody should have ever thought to ask, but then in the last part you quite effectively answer yourself.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I have no idea off the top of my head what Healing Spirit actually does, beyond that it's obviously a healing spell. So I don't think the fix can possibly be common-sensical, unless it's something like "every person who walks into the box gets healed", and then somebody's reaction is to constantly step in and out of the box over and over to try and get more healing than they're supposed to. </p><p></p><p>Common sense says that sort of thing probably shouldn't work, but other than that, the effects of spells are usually going to have to be spelled out, and there won't be a lot of realistically reasonable assumptions we can make about them. Indeed, often the common-sense answer is explicitly contradicted by the spell text, such as with Vicious Mockery saying that the victim doesn't actually need to be able to understand your words, in order to take psychic damage and suffer disadvantage because you made fun of them. Common sense would suggest that shouldn't work, and thus the spell had to explicitly overrule common sense, probably for game balance reasons. </p><p></p><p>(Which is kinda too bad, because if not for that being done, it would have made languages more mechanically relevant, and would have meant that this extremely useful spell is limited by its inapplicability to mindless monsters, which would have made it a less obvious choice to give every bard this super-useful spell as one of their known cantrips.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Envisioner, post: 7962710, member: 6749263"] The first part of this sounded like a ridiculous question that nobody should have ever thought to ask, but then in the last part you quite effectively answer yourself. I have no idea off the top of my head what Healing Spirit actually does, beyond that it's obviously a healing spell. So I don't think the fix can possibly be common-sensical, unless it's something like "every person who walks into the box gets healed", and then somebody's reaction is to constantly step in and out of the box over and over to try and get more healing than they're supposed to. Common sense says that sort of thing probably shouldn't work, but other than that, the effects of spells are usually going to have to be spelled out, and there won't be a lot of realistically reasonable assumptions we can make about them. Indeed, often the common-sense answer is explicitly contradicted by the spell text, such as with Vicious Mockery saying that the victim doesn't actually need to be able to understand your words, in order to take psychic damage and suffer disadvantage because you made fun of them. Common sense would suggest that shouldn't work, and thus the spell had to explicitly overrule common sense, probably for game balance reasons. (Which is kinda too bad, because if not for that being done, it would have made languages more mechanically relevant, and would have meant that this extremely useful spell is limited by its inapplicability to mindless monsters, which would have made it a less obvious choice to give every bard this super-useful spell as one of their known cantrips.) [/QUOTE]
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