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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 5798242" data-attributes="member: 64209">I only picked "like" for one of them, but my responses are actually pretty varied. 1. Healing scales with base hit points: LIKE!!! This is the one thing that I've always disliked about prior edition healing (where cure light wounds cures far more on a lvl 1 character %wise than on a high lvl character). 2. Soft cap on hit points healed per day: Neither like nor dislike. I don't like the implementation the way it's done, but I could see the benefit of such a thing. I could also see playing without it as just fine, too.   3. Healers need not sacrifice attacks: Minor dislike. I prefer healing to be an out of combat activity unless the character is either a) using a big gun like "heal" or b) specifically built around in-combat healing, such that keeping their allies up is more of a focus than their attacks anyway.4. Common rest cycle for hit points, spells and abilities: Minor dislike in that it has historically been 1 night for ability recovery. Full hp improvement from 0 to max seems too fast. 5. Non-magical hit point recovery: MASSIVE DISLIKE. Unless this is something like the healing skill and a prolonged surgery (aka a non-magical ritual that can be interrrupted with dire results) then "shouting someone to health" leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.6. All PCs can restore their own hit points: Minor to major dislike. I'm ok with "rests" and "bandaging" etc etc for minimal restoration. Basically this falls under #5 for me. If they're doing it either magically or through some involved surgery/bandaging/training that is hard to do and takes a fair amount of time, then fine. Something like a fighter's healing surge/second wind mid fight? No.   To answer what would be more palatable to me, I do think that if there were "real" hit points representing injury separated from "some other kind" of hit points (even multiple pools: luck, endurance/exhaustion, etc) then that'd be much better for a fighter or rogue to "shout" back their courage/adrenalin/luck. However, this would require a massive reworking of the system (does a fireball attack luck or base hp? Is it base on a failed save, and luck on a successful one?) This would likely, if carried out to the extreme, create a game that doesn't feel like d&d to me.    To boil it all down: I know HP are somewhat "abstract", but only somewhat. In the end, at least part of what they represent is injury (though depending on level they could represent much, much more). I want hp and any corresponding healing (if those words are used) to represent actual healing. If they change the wording to invigorating or blessing or somesuch then I'd be more ok with invigorating restoring hp though a nonmagical shout of encouragement. However, that would be a departure from prior forms of d&d...and 5e is meant to unite prior editions, not strike out on its own. Maybe a good idea for a different game, a GSL version of 4e from another company (a la pathfinder) or even a theoretical 6e. I think some ideas, even good ones, should be set aside for 5e in favor of going back to the game's roots, rather than branching out in new directions.</blockquote>

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