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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6865635" data-attributes="member: 996">Was there a sense of how they survived it?In other words it was relatively silent on the subject, as I said.You are mistaken.  Every edition of D&D has presented very abstract hps that simply do not work from a standpoint of exacting consistency in generating some narrative.   Classic D&D had a terrible time because of the inconsistency of non-proportional healing.  4e had proportional healing, and that also had issues.  5e has very rapid natural healing, which is closer to supporting the old 1e vision of hps EGG expressed in the DMG than the mechancis of 1e, itself, were.When does it make sense for a character hit for less than his remaining hps, to receive narration of a mortal wound?  That was something.  Positive energy.  Being overdrawn at the heavenly hit-point-bank.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />IMX, it's just a matter of getting used to what to embrace and what to ignore.  If you've been playing D&D since the 70s or 80s or even early 90s, you got used to the silliness of hps as presented in the classic game - if you hadn't been able to stomach it, you'd've given up long before the newer versions came out.It's just a matter of transferring that profound level of tolerance to a system that actually has less call for it.You didn't really have it in 2e, either, since such a wound would be debilitating. No.  How could it.  It takes hours - really, it takes two long rests to fully restore a PC (to get back both hps, and all surges).  Cure Wounds or Healing World restores lost hps instantly.  I'd think it applies to anyone with hp and HD, both.  Personally, as a DM, I have no problem not statting out non-combatants, and narrating their wounds in more horribly medieval-realistic ways...Not really.  Healing was slow, but if you had days to weeks to recover from the 'sport' you could.If he has enough hps to do so without being reduced to 0, he's able to climb back up the cliff without penalty - regardless of edition - so I don't see how there's a huge difference.  He can't have any broken limbs or other severe injuries in either case or there'd be serious penalties to a lot of checks.  Why can any high-hp character in any edition willfully jump off a cliff and end up OK at the bottom?</blockquote>

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