Baldur’s Gate does a decent job with it by burning your Action after you get up from 0

oops, I swalloed the die.

it was a d100

ugh that second example is on point. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a good response to that prompt. maybe one, but I don’t remember it.

like I’m not going to claim that my profile is amazing, but at least I do try to describe myself using it

and… yeah… like that’s often where people go to walk dogs, thanks for sharing, I had no clue. I guess I’m glad you enjoy it? I usually hate walking my dogs lol, they’re terrible when taken together and worse in a group. one wants to stop and sniff everything and the other only wants to get wherever we’re going faster. it’s not a good combination to walk at the same time lmao. perfectly fine enough individually, but there’s not always time for that.

It’s funny (read: it shits me to tears) how people will go on a conversation starter-based dating app and then just wordlessly like my pics anyway and expect me to dig around in their totally uninformative profile for something to talk about.

Either way, the answer is the same: no.

The stats on people’s hinge profile are often more attractive than their actual prompts.

Stats: 32, Bank Manager, Non Smoker, Some HCOL Area

The prompts: Must love dogs

Really? I actually think it’s one of the strengths of 5e. In 3.5 you just have negative hitpoints down to -10, and that doesn’t scale with level or anything so it’s barely relevant after the first few levels. And it’s nice to not be just DRT when you get downed in combat.

Well, you were going to be waiting a while for it to stop rolling anyway. This might actually be faster.

My answer is the same: I’d really like to, but I can’t find anyone to do it with, and I doubt I’d be any good at it.

Each to their own. I really hate the resulting meta it leads to. Healing is worthless in dnd 5e because of the action economy, it makes more sense to let someone go down and then bring them back up. That’s slightly better in pathfinder but not much. Overall I just really hate the combat in dnd 5e though, it’s so incredibly boring. Especially after having played other systems.

Ooh, yes. When I was in high school and college, I wouldn’t date anyone who drove recklessly. A combination of survivorship and selection bias made that no longer an issue when I got a little older, thankfully.

Do you have a system you like where healing is a good idea? I’m a 3.5 native so I’m kind of used to the philosophy of “the best healing is killing them before you take damage.” But I’m interested in systems design in general and if there’s a particularly good example of doing it better I’d love to learn about it.

Pathfinder 2e healing feels valuable. Fabula Ultima healing feels almost necessary.

Could you elaborate? How do their healing systems work? What makes them good?

Pathfinder 2e healing actually heals a substantial amount of hp, so using the actions to do so feels valuable. Additionally, although it still has the same weeble-wobble effect as dnd 5e, it has a condition called Wounded which makes it more dangerous to go down to 0 hp successively, incentivizing PCs to try and stay above 0. The encounter balance in pf2e is also just miles better than Dnd5e.

Fabula Ultima is modeled to feel like a JRPG (and does so wonderfully). Because healing is often a staple in those games, that feeling comes through well. Dropping to 0 hp removes you from the combat entirely, so it’s a very bad thing to happen. The numbers are also smaller and tighter. Healing also often targets the whole party.