Advanced Healing for D&D

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Yes, it’s time for another of my wildly unnecessary mechanical additions to Dungeons & Dragons.

I’ve been writing up some ideas for how to run a specific low fantasy setting using D&D and part of that is the genuine risk of death from deep wounds, unhealed injuries, and disease. None of those things are all that lethal in D&D as written; even without magic, as long as you have a single hit point or more remaining, you…