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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6505008" data-attributes="member: 6668292">First, let me preface this by saying I'm not going to argue either side for hit points, because that's pointless and I've made the huge majority of my Wisdom checks on EN World over the past 6+ months. But I had a question for you on how you'd handle something. This isn't a gotcha, but I'm curious what you'd do with it.Maybe it's just my players, but I've had many healers (magical or otherwise) that inspect wounds (or ask for judgments of them) before healing. Say two PCs are down; which one looked like the worse wound? Was one stabbed multiple times, and the other knocked down with a club? Before I know if I need to use a spell slot on this guy, how bad is his wound? Like, is he bleeding to death, or does he just need to rest and walk it off?These are questions I've gotten from players since they started playing and learning the rules. They eventually slowed with these questions as they learned the rules (and that "down" meant "bleeding to death" with nearly no exceptions), narrowing the possible narrative options. However, once I created my own RPG, I added mechanics that might down people for a variety of reasons (I added a "hit chart", people can go unconscious from taking too much damage while in armor, etc.), and the questions returned (since my mechanics allowed a broader selection of narratives to play out mechanically).With that in mind, how would you reply to a player's questioning in D&D (not my RPG)? Like, if they said they wanted to inspect the wound, were trained in Heal, and got a high roll. Depending on the severity and specifications, they'll decide whether or not to use the spell (slot / power). This player is a new player (so asking questions like this is natural for him), but he's smart (and gets saving resources if possible) and a good RPer (his god would only approve of him healing this downed person in a fringe sense; say it's an enemy that he might need to heal).Just curious how you'd handle that kind of thing (since the large majority of players have engaged in it). Thanks in advance <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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