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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6620378" data-attributes="member: 5834">There is no need to metagame healing. You know what I do? I say, &quot;He's barely standing and looks to be staggering.&quot; The player knows that means he needs healing. I come up with some narrative variation when it is needed. It doesn't matter. Never has, never will. None of that matters. The only rule is to make it fun. 99% of players don't care about anything else. You make it sound like this would even be a discussion if people were playing. Most wouldn't give a rat's patootie how you were doing things as long as you make the game fun. It's really the only thing that matters. All the semantics of how you go about this don't matter a bit. Just fun little discussions for people on forums like this. I've played at so many different tables with so many different rules as to be beyond count at this point. I doubt the discussion we're entertaining now would even be brought up at the table. I have never had someone argue that they get to jump in lava on purpose just because the mechanics allow it. Never in all the thirty plus years I've played. Just like I've never had anyone expect me to roll a bunch of times to hack their head off if they are on the headman's block regardless of how many hit points they have had. I wonder if any player has actually argued this with you when you DM. It seems more the case that you like to take a contrarian point of view for the sake of doing so. It's ridiculous. I'd love to see if any of this crap being discussed even happens at any of the tables any of you play at. You just don't seem to like that the DM will make a death ruling for a player doing something stupid because the RAW says otherwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6620378, member: 5834"] There is no need to metagame healing. You know what I do? I say, "He's barely standing and looks to be staggering." The player knows that means he needs healing. I come up with some narrative variation when it is needed. It doesn't matter. Never has, never will. None of that matters. The only rule is to make it fun. 99% of players don't care about anything else. You make it sound like this would even be a discussion if people were playing. Most wouldn't give a rat's patootie how you were doing things as long as you make the game fun. It's really the only thing that matters. All the semantics of how you go about this don't matter a bit. Just fun little discussions for people on forums like this. I've played at so many different tables with so many different rules as to be beyond count at this point. I doubt the discussion we're entertaining now would even be brought up at the table. I have never had someone argue that they get to jump in lava on purpose just because the mechanics allow it. Never in all the thirty plus years I've played. Just like I've never had anyone expect me to roll a bunch of times to hack their head off if they are on the headman's block regardless of how many hit points they have had. I wonder if any player has actually argued this with you when you DM. It seems more the case that you like to take a contrarian point of view for the sake of doing so. It's ridiculous. I'd love to see if any of this crap being discussed even happens at any of the tables any of you play at. You just don't seem to like that the DM will make a death ruling for a player doing something stupid because the RAW says otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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