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<blockquote data-quote="Naszir" data-source="post: 5798442" data-attributes="member: 55043">How about going about this a different way?Instead of a way to &quot;heal&quot; what about a way to avoid damage?Instead of healing surge you could have a heoric surge. A character can use a heoric surge to turn what might have been a severly damaging hit into a glancing blow or the heoric surge can be used to describe the character using some extra effort to avoid the damage.This gives the players some narrative heoric control. Imagine a DM describing a potential deadly hit by a dragon but the player instead claims control by using his characters heoric surge to only take minimum damage from the hit instead of damage that would have killed the character.I would advocate that the player be allowed to use the heoric surge after the damage roll is made. Wasting one on a low damage roll would feel &quot;un-heroic&quot;.I would also advocate lower hit points overall for characters because using heroic surges would mitigate the need for greater hps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Naszir, post: 5798442, member: 55043"] How about going about this a different way? Instead of a way to "heal" what about a way to avoid damage? Instead of healing surge you could have a heoric surge. A character can use a heoric surge to turn what might have been a severly damaging hit into a glancing blow or the heoric surge can be used to describe the character using some extra effort to avoid the damage. This gives the players some narrative heoric control. Imagine a DM describing a potential deadly hit by a dragon but the player instead claims control by using his characters heoric surge to only take minimum damage from the hit instead of damage that would have killed the character. I would advocate that the player be allowed to use the heoric surge after the damage roll is made. Wasting one on a low damage roll would feel "un-heroic". I would also advocate lower hit points overall for characters because using heroic surges would mitigate the need for greater hps. [/QUOTE]

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