Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
It's not. The 5 minute work day is actually more prevalent at lower levels than high levels. First, when you only have 1-4 spells per day to cast(levels 1-4), you rest a whole lot after fights so that the spellcaster(s) can get back into combat. Second, you can start fully or nearly fully healing the entire party overnight at mid levels, not high levels.High level play is the least common play tier, so why is that the yardstick?
At high levels you have enough spells that you don't have to rest after every fight and can fully heal everyone who needs it multiple times before needing to rest, so occurrences of the 5 minute work day go down a bit.
No, they didn't really "nova," but they did run out of resources after 1 fight at low levels. Unless of course the wizard ineffectually attacked with a staff or daggers. The cleric could at least wear armor, so fighting wasn't a God awful choice.I'd also submit that played with strict attention to detail on the resource side, this isn't how B/X or BECMI actually play, and certainly not at low or mid tier. I was specifically addressing the 5 minute workday remember, which isn't just about healing, but also blowing nova abilities, a thing that those editions don't really have.