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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Gumphrey" data-source="post: 4267871" data-attributes="member: 12872">Actually, it sort of is. All that healing sounds stupid at first, until you realize that hit points aren't "life points" anymore. In my experience it's mainly a refusal to accept this that keeps people from playing. Most of my group is anti-4e because LOL EVERYONE HEALZ. Oh, and LOL WARCRAFT, but that's another story.I'm a competitive (amateur) MMA fighter. When I fight a match, you can bet that I am beaten half to crap and exhausted when I'm finished, win or lose. But could I fight twice more in one day? I probably could. I couldn't do it day after day for weeks and months on end, but it's safe to say that I'd be using my healing surges during the fight and between fights to keep my stamina up when I needed to.People can't get repeatedly hit with heavy blades anyway. Hit points shouldn't be about wounds, they should be about your ability to not get wounded severely. In 3.x, taking a greatsword hit for 18 didn't mean a greatsword actually chopped your arm to the bone. It might not have even hit you, especially if you had over 100 hp. Hit Points were an abstraction then; they're even more of one now.It's simply a lack of acceptance of change. If I've got 20 hit points, and someone cranks me one for 4 damage with a longsword, I didn't necessarily take a hit. But if I have to dodge 5 more blows like that, I'm gonna be so exhausted that the next one puts me in my place, on the ground and bleeding out. That's my take on it anyway. Just gotta use your imagination.EDIT: *SQUEE* bwahaha</blockquote>

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