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Pretty much this. Fighter HP is rarely what stops a party from adventuring forth; it is usually spellcasters that are the limiting factor. Honestly, with the lack of magic items in the game, my melee combatants carry enough healing potions to create a pool. Funny what people do with gold when...

My apologies, I do not mean to indicate that is not the case; it is far more like 3E in that respect than 4E ever was. But how many classes gain a benefit from chain short resting? Don't see anything about the cleric getting his spells back in the character sheet. Let me state this another...

So, uh, with those multiple three hour rests a day...when are you getting anything done? (Also, you're not in a gritty game if you can rest 17 hours a day. Your DM has convinced you all that you are, but if you can rest 9+ hours a day, then you're not in a gritty game.) Cuz if you do, say...

It sounds way worse on paper then in reality (having been playing 3 NEXT sessions a week for months if not years now) due to the following bits 1) Rules as Written say that Short Rests are 1 or more hours; so they have to "stop" resting, and then "rest again". So there are some hijinks...

Hrm, seems like Basic might not have much in the way of Monsters immediately upon release; so I'll modify my statement to say that I'll update the adventures as soon as I get finalized monster stats. ;)

To be fair, Mearls did explicitly say that if a DM allows chained short rests, there are probably other things in the game that break as well. Ahh, that's not what I was trying to quite get at. I think what you'll see is that short rest is the dial that a group can tinker with to move between...

Actually, the starter sheet cleric can heal everyone to at least half health with chained short rests; Channel Divinity refreshes on a short or long rest, and the preserve life channel divinity can heal the entire party. EDIT: Oops, didn't notice the 1/2 HP maximum, my bad. Stupid small...

Yes. Eh, I am pretty sure the first few adventures probably won't hand them out like candy, and if they do (or players ply their DM with alcohol and said DM gets very happy and kind with alcohol), they are not gamebreaking due to their +X limits. There are some guidelines, but it's not super...

If the players can chain short rest; healing is a moot point for all classes.

Bingo. Sad thing is, a lot of people are going to look incredibly stupid for this conversation when Basic / PHB comes out, and they look at the rest of the classes. The mechanic makes a lot of sense when put in context of the rest of the classes. If a group is allowed to take multiple short...

Anecdata I ran two games on Saturday with no prep; a 6 hour session where the players were 12 year olds, and I had let them decide what level they wanted to be (had to be under 10) and made up multiple encounters on the fly with no reference to monster power available what so ever (didn't have...

They have said as such, but it was a long time ago during the initial playtest release, and I can't find the exact comment. Might have been made in a chat. That said, I'm 95% sure that they will have such an option; the design of the short rest and long rest (and the weirdness of short rests)...

I'd laugh but this is true. That said, this time they should have gotten them right. :-p

Surprisingly, people have so far been far more responsive to the send PDF / survey philosophy than the "lets check DDI to see how many of XYZ option was chosen" idea. People are also alt-o-holics on DDI, so there were a lot of characters that were never leveled and never moved beyond the theory...

While the bad news is that you will probably have to wait till the DMG to have the full set of modularity; the good news is that I've seen the type of game you are looking for in the ruleset I've been playing through. :) Note; I think it would be valuable to look through some of the changes...

aww <blush> my goal is to convert as many good adventures as I can over to 5E. First step are the easy ones (Vault of the Dracolich, Dragonspear, the D&D Encounters), then hoping to do Emerald Spire and Rise of the Runelords from PF. I'm taking requests for adventures if folks are interested.

FWIW, my players are using the referenced Greek and Norse gods, so I can definitely confirm it is setting agnostic. The Dark Sun references are well done and make me excited for the eventual Dark Sun book(s).

As an engineer; no, all we do is become spreadsheet jockeys. :( I'm not bitter AT ALL...nope....

I should have a conversion done within a week or so of release of Basic (if I can find my copy of GoDC). Hoping to convert all of the playtest adventures to full 5E by the end of July.

I do love how everyone seems to immediately know how the ability is balanced with the rulesets they haven't read yet. :) FWIW, looking at the spreadsheet we built for the last packet I saw, it goes back and forth about 50/50 between pure evocation casters and action surging casters throughout...