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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 6671797" data-attributes="member: 59506">What about Cure Wounds.By its title it narratively designates Wounds - Physical Durability/Injury - yet indiscriminately heals all hit points.  Now one can make the argument, as I believe you've intimated at also, that physical healing will have an impact on mental states.  And I agree with that.  But it still, narratively, focuses on physical durability to the exclusion of other aspects of hit points.  Yet it works because even though it's not healing those other aspects, it doesn't matter because D&D doesn't distinguish between types of damage.  It lumps them all in together.What I've been saying is that same logic applies to a Warlord being the catalyst for restoring mental durability and not physical durability, yet still increasing hit points.  Besides which, as I said before, restoring mental aspects can and does have an effect on physical aspects, such as adrenalin reversing physiological shock and thus allowing the body to return to homeostasis.  That's a real world example of mental action "healing" physical damage.They are opposite sides of the same coin.  If the logic of Warlord healing fails, then so does the logic of Cure Wounds.For that matter, Warlord healing is no less logical than short and long rests.  Though that can be contentious also, and often for the same reasons.I'm not removing - or ignoring - anything.  I'm simply focusing, narratively, on a specific aspect for a specific application.  Lots of things in the game narratively focus on specific aspects of things, yet affect larger quantifications (again, Cure Wounds for example).  Doing so does not break the logic of the game.</blockquote>

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