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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6671659" data-attributes="member: 2067">I've got a weird relationship with the RAW - I appreciate what rules can do to shape an experience, but I also am arrogant enough to know when I know better than they do. <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=":)" /> And while I don't favor a morale-based HP model, I don't have any particular problems with it (y'know, I was a kid raised on cartoon fighting and Mortal Kombat and '80's slasher flicks, so I'm cool with my make-believe world having absurd injuries that people recover from over night). I'd welcome it, if only for adding more inclusivity to 5e. But I don't think that those who read HP as having to do with actual injury are too far out on a limb. RAW easily supports the idea that every instance of HP damage has at least some injury associated with it, and so the idea that every instance of HP recovery should have at least some meat-healing capacity isn't some aberrant house rule, it's just a matter of differing emphases. When the question is why folks have a problem with purely inspirational healing, there's your answer. Again, personally, I wouldn't mind seeing a full-on narrative HP model with its own inspirational healer, especially now that the PHB doesn't have that, but I get why some folks don't want that as an assumption in their D&D.</blockquote>

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