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Sure, there's more to do, and fixing healing is part of it. I like a proportional model myself.

Yeah 1 fight could also be a decent challenge.

1e and 2e did just fine. Slow healing and save or die meant that resting didn't bring you anywhere close to full on hit points after a...

And just to add: Why do we even want attrition based design for more than one combat? Because it gives the DMs more tools to pace the...

The problem again is, that you have to use the "crutch" of random encounters to deny a long rest or just handwave a NO to long rests...

It's certainly not my intention to be making such a claim. I think my very last paragraph there is possibly the most important. Note...

So in a way, modern play is less driven by player action?

Hit points have been around long before "6-8 times a day" was a thing, and you can absolutely use them as part of a sim mechanic...

Couldn't you create a random encounter table and make tokens for every creature on it?

when was the last time 30 seconds of exercise counted as strenuous activity? ;)

I would probably go along the lines of the following... 1. When we are not actively involved in the game, time passes in the game world...

No. Wotc published a mechanic that encourages a no win toxic mindset that the GM lacks the tools to feel supported while addressing it...

I don't think that is the catch-all weasel wording you are making it out to be because the return is still full total and complete...

It's interesting from an academic point of view (which I do appreciate), but I don't see what real value it has now for game designers...

The GM is not mechanics. And the actual mechanics serve to model the world. It's that world, and the PCs interactions with it, that...