What's your 3.5e wishlist?

[Ashrem Bayle]

I'd just like a good explaination of why it takes a more powerful (and costly) spell to heal a 10th level fighter of a slight wound than it does to heal a 1st level fighter.

Role-Playing wise, it makes little sense.

The characters have to start wondering why it suddenly costs much much more to get healed back to full health than it did when the first started their careers.

 

[buzz]

I'd just like a good explaination of why it takes a more powerful (and costly) spell to heal a 10th level fighter of a slight wound than it does to heal a 1st level fighter.

I guess it depends on your definition of a slight wound. Weapon damage doesn't go up with level; a dagger wound is a dagger wound no matter who you are. High-level heroes can just take more of them. I assume what you're really asking is why does it take more or more powerful magic to completely heal a higher-level character?

Since this gets at the fundamental nature of the D&D hit point mechanic, I doubt we're going to see any major revisions.

The best way to think of hit points are as "dramatic importance points". The more "powerful" a PC is, the harder they are to kill, e.g., Conan shouldn't get skewered by some city guard fresh out of soldier school. Consequently, when major heroes like this are majorly wounded, a novice isn't going to be able to make them whole with wimpy magic.

It's not realistic, but it's simple and it fits the cinematic heroism of the game.

And heck, at least now your healing rate is a function of your level. That certainly makes more sense.

 

[Aluvial]

Endurance as a CON skill and not a feat....

 

[orbitalfreak]

Just one thing...

One thing I would love is to do away with spell descriptions of the following format:

Sample Spell II
*blah, partial statblock*
"This spell functions as Sample Spell I, except as noted..."

I just want all spells to be fully detailed instead of having to reference another spell for information.

 

[Gez]

Rename the Lesser/Greater/Improved/Major spells in just Spell I, Spell II, Spell III, etc. Or at least, adopt a "Spell, Greater" nomenclature. Much, much, much less page-flipping when looking for description.

That was so insightful, and so easy to do, that I thought it deserved to be re-exposed.