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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Silverbane" data-source="post: 4101668" data-attributes="member: 38016">In some cases (particularly with the healing surges) there may not be an observable result at all.  A healing surge might be described like this...After several frenetic seconds fighting back and forth with the ogres, Ferdick could still not push past them.  Backing off for a moment, he wiped the blood out of his eye and flung it to the ground with a flick of his fingers before gripping tight his trusty sword and essaying the corridor again.The character wiping blood out of his eye could just as easily have been replaced by taking a few deep breaths, or shaking his head vigorously, or cracking his neck loudly, or doing anything else that might take up  the type of action required to take a second wind.  A magically triggered healing surge will probably be described more spectacularly.  But since any given hit point damage is not necessarily an actual wound, the healing doesn't have to be visible at all...A daily martial maneuver might require a full day's rest (6 hours) to recover because it causes it user some minor muscle damage, or something. (non-magical dailies are, to me, the hardest to describe).Latersilver</blockquote>