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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6620540" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Under this interpretation, the absurdity occurs that a sword through the torso is easy to heal (one guy with a healing Kit and the Healer feat can get you back to 1 HP every single round from now until the end of time, if he has enough healing kits) but &quot;luck&quot; is so difficult to heal that it takes a full day's rest. Since HP are fungible via spells like Vampiric Touch, or the Life cleric's Disciple of Life feature, it also means that healing 70 people who are dying of torso wounds for the same amount of healing energy that it takes to get one mid-level fighter who is almost-but-not-quite exhausted back up to full energy. That's not something that happens at the metagame level, it's an actual observable phenomenon that NPCs can observe and form theories about.Interpreting HP as &quot;luck&quot; instead of injury is going down the rabbit hole. And no, don't quote that PHB passage back to me because I already know it. Re-read the passage until you see the part where it mentions physical durability and will to live. Those are physical qualities. The PHB is pretty clearly intended to cover both HP-as-physical-injury and HP-as-luck to whatever extent a given DM wants in his games. It doesn't support your interpretation of the rules, it merely permits it, as it permits mine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6620540, member: 6787650"] Under this interpretation, the absurdity occurs that a sword through the torso is easy to heal (one guy with a healing Kit and the Healer feat can get you back to 1 HP every single round from now until the end of time, if he has enough healing kits) but "luck" is so difficult to heal that it takes a full day's rest. Since HP are fungible via spells like Vampiric Touch, or the Life cleric's Disciple of Life feature, it also means that healing 70 people who are dying of torso wounds for the same amount of healing energy that it takes to get one mid-level fighter who is almost-but-not-quite exhausted back up to full energy. That's not something that happens at the metagame level, it's an actual observable phenomenon that NPCs can observe and form theories about. Interpreting HP as "luck" instead of injury is going down the rabbit hole. And no, don't quote that PHB passage back to me because I already know it. Re-read the passage until you see the part where it mentions physical durability and will to live. Those are physical qualities. The PHB is pretty clearly intended to cover [I]both[/I] HP-as-physical-injury and HP-as-luck to whatever extent a given DM wants in his games. It doesn't support your interpretation of the rules, it merely permits it, as it permits mine. [/QUOTE]

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