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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BobTheNob" data-source="post: 5808574" data-attributes="member: 82425">I once had strong views on this, but Im not convinced any more. Healing HP is a combat function. It can be argued that it is more encompassing than that, but at its core the reason we want to heal is to be ready to get into the action. Its a kind of "enabling" function.Even if healing skill was relegated to a out of combat usage, it still enables. D&D(3.X and 4) delineated skills from combat to a large degree, then placed little exceptions in (e.g. Using bluff in the middle of a fight, or KNowledge checks), but I was never quite a fan of that either. It always felt to me that there had to be a greater consciousnesses that separating skills into a differing mechanic from combat application seemed a bad idea and that there had to be a way that we didnt treat the two differently.Which is where my issue with healing skill lies. Its a skill in that "non-combat" area (we used it mostly for "Help the dieing peasants", "Save that guy who had ciritical information"...more story elements that mechanics) and to allow it to heal HP moves it into that wishy-washy area in between.I guess that's my take. Im ok with the idea, but I wish that differentiation between combat abilities and skills didn't exists (i.e. there was one consolidated methodology that both complied with) so it didn't have to be in that middle ground/exception area.</blockquote>