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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 4105309" data-attributes="member: 21169">There's damage from poison. And the bloodied condition. And it makes more sense to interpret a weapon attack as causing a physical effect. And the names 'Healing Surge' and 'Healing Word' (the cleric power). That's six reasons to think of hit points as still having a physical component.Sure, healing is faster in 4e than in 3rd but it's not a massive difference. 3e healing was much too fast to represent recovery from broken bones and the like.Thus I conclude that hit points in 4e continue to represent both the physical and non-physical, with perhaps slightly more emphasis on the non-physical than previous editions, due to Second Wind and 6 hour full healing.</blockquote>