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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6504947" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, part of my way of looking at it is like this. The party crashes the door and rushes into the room full of orcs. A wild melee ensues. The fighter finds himself in a precarious position, orcs all around! Blows fall, suddenly he realizes his helmet is gone and the blurry thing to his right is the floor! Does he have any broken bones? Who the fudge knows! He lets out a low moan and the cleric shoves past one of the orcs, and reaches down while shouting out Klay protect and defend you. The fighter feels his head clear, picks up his helmet and staggers back to his feet. Or alternately its the warlord that shoves his way up, reaches down, grabs the fighter by the collar and hoists him back to his feet, where he staggers momentarily and then raises his sword to block another axe stroke, all the while cursing the blood dripping into his left eye.Neither of those narrative possibilities forces anyone to reinterpret anything or fail to interpret any information they actually have. Its just not clear to anyone what's up with the fighter and its not clear to me that an Inspiring Word is any less likely to bring him back to his feet than a Healing Word is. I'm sure you can construct some situation where one or the other seems artificial, but I've run a lot of games of D&D in my time and very few such instantly spring to mind. IMHO the problem is almost always grossly overstated and is mostly a talking point in verbal frays over who's edition of D&D is beyond the pale.</blockquote>

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