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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyberen" data-source="post: 6148285" data-attributes="member: 69074">[MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION] : great ! Could you give some examples of your "Failing with Panache !" rule in play ?+1 concerning HP as an entry barrier to D&DConcerning Disintegrate, the disconnect was introduced with 3e, which interpreted the spell as HP loss (to cap its efficiency, I suppose). It's obviously a questionnable design choice, as [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] pointed. It has a desirable effect of enabling the wizard to contribute to the same HP depletion game as the rest of the party, but mapping each and every effect to a 1-dimensional hp gain or loss has serious limits :  for Save or Die effects, "the stress of fighting magic back" is getting old pretty soon. It's a big issue, and [MENTION=697]mearls[/MENTION] delaying its L&L column has me getting nervous, and I feel it has LOTS to say about Healing (that is, HP restoration) effects and narration, and our discussion aroind the Warlord.(after many hesitations, I think I would like tiered effects, like a mini condition track, with initial position and moving up and down tied to saving throws or opposed checks, with specifics belonging to each effect : fiddly, but comensurate to the mechanical and narrative importance of such SFX)I've learned D&D through french, and the Healing spells names would better translate to "minor/major/serious/critical cure" with no reference to wounds. Shrödinger wounds lost in translation !</blockquote>

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