Quote Originally Posted by Ashdate View Post
That sounds like it would have the exact same problems "death" has in your average D&D game; at low-levels, having a leg broken might mean causing the party to sit around in town for a week or more.
Yes, and so what? There's nothing wrong with a bit of downtime between adventures; it's rather silly to go from level 1 to 20 in the timespan of two weeks!