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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9427052" data-attributes="member: 54629">I'm happy to handwave stuff "because magic". It's the rules that purport to be mundane yet are clearly magical / miraculous in nature that I find harder to handwave. I mean, even if we go back to 3.5e, where using a first aid kit to stabilize a dying comrade required you to use your full turn, that's still just 6 seconds! That's crazy fast even by today's standards never mind pseudo-medieval ones. If healer's kits contained magic herbs that stopped people from dying in 6 seconds or less simply by having them crushed and sprinkled over a wound or applied whole to that wound or whatever, that would be one thing ... but as it is, I struggle to picture (and therefore describe) what the healer is actually doing within the fiction.If your comrade has been slashed or stabbed and is now dying, maybe you're applying a poultice or bandage to the wound. But what if they got poisoned? What if they got electrocuted? What if they got melted by a black dragon's acid breath like Riverwind in Dragons of Autumn Twilight? There's no way his friends could have saved him in less than 6 seconds simply by expending a use of a healer's kit. He needed genuinely magical healing!Maybe it requires a DM's judgment call kind of thing. Oh, you've been hacked down by an axe wielded by an orc? OK, your buddy can staunch the bleeding with a poultice / bandage. Oh, you've been stabbed by a wyvern's venomous tail? Your buddy can administer some antivenom. Oh, you've been reduced to a pile of quivering goo by Khinsath's acidic breath? You're gonna need magical healing and stat!</blockquote>

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