How to replicate the 'second wind' ability from D&D 5e?

[Appletoe]

I've decided to try and see how many abilities from D&D 5e it's possible to replicate in GURPS, and I seem to have come across a problem translating second wind, which is a 2nd-level fighter ability. It goes like this:

'You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 +your fighter level. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.'

Firstly, how do you heal yourself for 1 HP instantly in GURPS? I considered regeneration but it seems to work over a period of time and to get 1 HP per second is ridiculously expensive. Secondly, how do you represent the long rest needed before the ability can be used again? Is this just a straight accessibility limitation because limited use seems too extreme to me (you would have to wait a minimum of 24 hours before you can use the ability again using this limitation)?

[Nereidalbel]

Temporary Hit Points in D&D are best represented as Ablative DR, which costs 1 point per level.

I'd just go with Requires Recharge for the waiting part.

[DouglasCole]

If you're at all familiar with the Pyramid article The Last Gasp (#3/44), Second Wind could easily be a free "refresh" to full AP total . . .

[Appletoe]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Temporary Hit Points in D&D are best represented as Ablative DR, which costs 1 point per level.

I'd just go with Requires Recharge for the waiting part.

The hit points you recover aren't temporary though, and the takes recharge limitation, which is what I think you're referring to here, only goes up to one hour, after which it says you should use limited use.

Originally Posted by DouglasCole

If you're at all familiar with the Pyramid article The Last Gasp (#3/44), Second Wind could easily be a free "refresh" to full AP total . . .

I don't have any Pyramid articles, sorry.

[Nereidalbel]

For instant self heals, you can throw a lot of modifiers on Healing.

[Tyneras]

Regeneration, Very Fast (Limited Use, 2/day, -30%; Costs FP 1, -5%; Reduced Duration 1/60, -35%; Requires rest between uses, -10%; -80%) [20pts]

Twice per day you can recover 1 HP/second (improved by high HP as normal). This costs 1 FP for the first second and 1 FP per 2 seconds afterwards.

I just winged it on the rest requirement.

[Dalillama]

Originally Posted by Appletoe

'You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 +your fighter level. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.'

Extra FP (Only for Feverish Defense -80%) [1]/level appears to match the flavortext almost exactly.

[Appletoe]

I just found the second wind ability from Action #2 which appears to be exactly what I'm after here. It says you can spend 1 FP for 1 HP healed.

[Ashtagon]

D&D hit points are a measure of not just physical ability to take punishment, but also ability to dodge, stamina, luck from the gods, and a variety of factors other than actual damage. Although the in-game representation is hit points regained, the character isn't actually causing his wounds to physically close up; he's catching his breath, recovering his wits, mentally "turning off" the pain, and so on.

In many ways, D&D hit points are more akin to GURPS per-session/day uses of Luck (and other per-time-unit usage abilities), fatigue, and defence rolls.

I'd suggest any of:

* Replenish per-time-unit abilities such as Luck.
* restore fatigue points
* temporarily cancel the skill check penalties associated with hit point loss.

[simply Nathan]

Originally Posted by Ashtagon

D&D hit points are a measure of not just physical ability to take punishment, but also ability to dodge, stamina, luck from the gods, and a variety of factors other than actual damage.

That's an interpretation of the term I could never wrap my head around, which is one of the (many) reasons I so eagerly switched over to GURPS. Because the D&D flavor text indicating that HP is a ton of different and unrelated concepts didn't mesh well with the way healing was presented to me or the way I or anyone I ever played with ran things.