I normally make that as players and humans only. It's common (not the language) for different races to speak in their own language so if you're trying to listen in on a pair of goblins, you need to speak goblin. If you capture one of those goblins and take them back to the reat of the party for questioning, then someone will need to speak goblin because it's likely the only language your prisoner speaks.
Yeah, I've done variants of that and it works great for overland campaigns but it takes traditional dungeon crawls off the table.
Yeah, healing surges were 4e's best mechanical idea and hit dice are a pale shadow of them thar don't accomplish the best thing that healing surges did (limit total healing) just didn't like the implementation in how generous they were. Made attrition take too long.
The idea of doing a dungeon with more than six to eight encounters that are recommenced between long rests seems utterly alien to me.
It's more the logistics of short rests in dungeons with gritty realism in place.
I wouldn’t mind everyone speaking common if it were intentionally treated as a developed worldwide language, it’s spoken everywhere but it’s everyone’s second language, and it’s inelegant to communicate in.
I feel like 5e could benefit from 4e’s beefier surges, given a common criticism is that martials expend their reserve of HP far too quickly, and you wouldn’t have the attrition issue if you kept 5e’s style of only being able to use them during rests.
