No Yo-Yo healing! Pathfinders take on toothless D&D mechanics: dying, poison, diseases, skills @TheRulesLawyerRPG
No Yo-Yo healing! Pathfinders take on toothless D&D mechanics: dying, poison, diseases, skills  @TheRulesLawyerRPG
Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
It's a widespread criticism that D&D suffers from "pop up healing," where knockouts in a fight don't matter. Poison, diseases, and curses also aren't very impactful, and skills like Medicine don't find much use. This next Pathfinder Law School video covers the Death & Dying rules, afflictions, and the Medicine skill and how they address common complaints about D&D.

0:00 Intro
0:48 Death & Dying
5:54 Poison
9:10 Curses, Diseases
12:47 Persistent damage
15:47 Putting it all together
18:08 The Medicine skill matters!
22:01 PF2 resources

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