[Poruku]

Well, with the original suggestion if you're paying attention you can still metagame, and if you are just pointing out "homonculuuuus" from seeing a weird number, that's metagaming and you should be able to say "hey you don't actually know I'm a homonculus just from that".

Let's be real here. If you're a healer in a fight and you cast a spell on someone who has multiple cuts, there is absolutely no way you get a precise enough number where the 10 percent reduction is noticeable. What if you just can't see the wounds that got healed? What about wounds under armor or clothing? What about the fact that everyone has different levels of hp and healing affects everyone differently? What about the fact that a character might have damage from fire, acid, cuts, and bruises all at once? It's impossible to notice this unless you're doing it in a controlled environment. A fight is way too chaotic for you to know.

So if you're doing some actual healing rp and the homonculus is rping his healing as being less than expected in like a hospital bed with a tried and tested healing technique, I can see it. But it should be metagaming to simply glean it from the numbers in the case of homonculus.

For vampires though? That I could see. Your spell being a quarter as effective is a huge difference that you could notice.

That being said, it would still be cool to have it hidden in the battle log as well. But even if you notice that the health difference doesn't match, you should still not be able to glean the nature of someone via battle numbers alone unless they rp accordingly. For instance if we're grinding peacefully and someone drops "yoooo that dude is faaaake" that's just bad imo. But if you're rping during combat and the homonculus posts an emote where they describe the healing being less effective, that's when it's legit.