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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oni" data-source="post: 5803252" data-attributes="member: 380">I'm just going to go ahead and say it.  The reason I like Healing Surges is specifically because of the 80's action hero effect.  I want my fighters to be Bruce Willis like badasses ala Diehard.  When used on their own they're not so much the ability to heal injury as ignore it.  I don't imagine that with the older style HP system that most people would describe your character getting knocked down to -1 has having a arm hewed off or the like, even though that is an injury that in which survival is feasible.  And why not?  Because if that person gets healed you can't really explain away the missing arm, there is another spell for that.  So why would you describe injuries that can't jive with the HS system any more than you would the HP system?  The only reason I can think to do it is to try to intentionally make the system look ludicrous.  Ultimately the HS is just more versatile.  There are so many dials to adjust with it.  Increase or decrease the number of Surges available.  Change their value.  Change their recover rate.  Or what about this, change HP regained via surge minus magic to Temp HP and then have the old HP recovery rates.   Anyway, for the 'HP damage should actually be real physical wounds that take ages to recover' crowd, and who then primarily reject Healing Surges because the view them as some bizarre non-magical lizard-like regeneration.  I want to know how you justify the 10th level fighter with 1 HP left that cans still run marathons, climb mountains, and do back flips without a care in the world.  That's just the thing your system doesn't actually make any more sense without some sort of death spiral.</blockquote>

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