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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6093361" data-attributes="member: 27160">Second wind definitely should be a fairly occasional thing - and my experience of 4E is that, as presented there, it is. But I would not really want to see it as a "daily" ability; quite apart from verisimilitude issues, it would then itself become a resource, the use of which would push towards taking a long rest. I don't think it would work well like that.I would much rather see it (a) given a real cost in the moment - the use of an action fits well, here, and is certainly effective in 4e - and (b) achieving something that could be achieved for the same or lower cost during a short rest. Which brings me to:I quite like this as an alternative to healing surges/hit dice. It manages to keep a real cost to getting damaged (the remaining proportion of hit points that are "unhealable" by the short rest), similar to losing surges or dice, and could also make magical healing during short rests useful even if quite restricted in terms of number of hit points healed (because it could heal the points of damage left over after the recovery afforded by the short rest has happened).I'd need to think through the ramifications a bit more, but I think there might be the germ of a nice system, there.</blockquote>