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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 5708079" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Just so you know, I'm totally on board with most of what you're saying.Here, though, I'd like to hear if a wound being infected was mentioned anywhere in the RAW of 3.5 (I change 3.X to 3.5 because that's what I mostly played). Here's the SRD on diseases:It goes on to mention "infection" within the context of diseases:This is obviously not referencing disease from poor healing. In this case, they're using "infection" as a term for "delivery method" in regards to various diseases.The RAW, as far as I know, is never clear on a wound that becomes infected, only diseased. Yes, it can become infected with a disease, but I don't think a generic "infected" state is anywhere in the core RAW. It only lists the following diseases: Blinding sickness, Cackle fever, Demon fever, Devil chills, Filth fever, Mindfire, Mummy rot, Red ache, Shakes, and Slimy doom.So, to the best of my knowledge, a generic wound infection is at best a grey area. If a generic wound infection can be narrated as hit point damage, then a Cure spell would certainly heal it:There's no direct description on what the Cure spell is doing. It's not necessarily only closing wounds. We know that a Cure spell lets you recover hit point damage. According to page 145 of the 3.5 PHB:With that context, hit points being lost to an infection might represent "taking physical punishment" and, if they do, I'm within the RAW on this, as far as I know.I think at worst, I'm sitting in a grey area. But, even if I'm wrong (which is okay with me), the point stands about the narrative difference between editions on wounds: in 4e, you have the narrative options of dying, or healing overnight. In 3.X, you have the narrative options of dying, healing overnight, or healing over a few days to a couple weeks.Framing it as realism, or as a quality of wound issue is missing the point. It's not that I want to be able to be infected in all editions, it's that I want the possibility of death, long term injury, and short term injury in all editions. Framing it as anything else is missing the point. As always, play what you like <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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