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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7959007" data-attributes="member: 93670">Based on experience of past editions where AoOs were something that imposed meaningful gravity on combat positioning/over extending choices, the lack of those choices causes that never retreat never worry disregard.&nbsp; Take that example earlier where Scott gets hit by 4 AoOs just by spending an action to dig a potion out from any pack but hewards handy haversack and still needs to endure a second round of attacks before he can get a bunch more AoOs drinking that potion.&nbsp; Players would balance their advance against the knowledge that:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Negative HP need to be healed one by one &amp; you die instantly at -10, it doesn't simply go away if you are at 1hp &amp; get hit for maxhp-1 so they do something &amp; maybe pull back long before they look like the black knight from holy grail/</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">There was no 30foot swift/bonus action&nbsp; first level spell a healer could toss out to instantly allow you to take another hit up to one point below your max hp even if healing word only gives 2 hp so&nbsp; you needed to be careful to make sure heal capable types could reach you if healing was needed.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Without healing word, no healer was likely to charge through an army&nbsp; of AoO after AoO just to cast cure critical wounds on leroy jenkins so he could mindlessly attack till he's down again &amp;&nbsp; said healer was certainly going to have the group backing him up when it comes time to berate leroy on the finer artsof stretegy &amp; not wasting resources.</li>
</ul>The problem you are seeing is caused by or exacerbated by 5e's boneheaded failure to include a completed tactical combat system for play on a grid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 7959007, member: 93670"] Based on experience of past editions where AoOs were something that imposed meaningful gravity on combat positioning/over extending choices, the lack of those choices causes that never retreat never worry disregard. Take that example earlier where Scott gets hit by 4 AoOs just by spending an action to dig a potion out from any pack but hewards handy haversack and still needs to endure a second round of attacks before he can get a bunch more AoOs drinking that potion. Players would balance their advance against the knowledge that: [LIST] [*]Negative HP need to be healed one by one & you die instantly at -10, it doesn't simply go away if you are at 1hp & get hit for maxhp-1 so they do something & maybe pull back long before they look like the black knight from holy grail/ [*]There was no 30foot swift/bonus action first level spell a healer could toss out to instantly allow you to take another hit up to one point below your max hp even if healing word only gives 2 hp so you needed to be careful to make sure heal capable types could reach you if healing was needed. [*]Without healing word, no healer was likely to charge through an army of AoO after AoO just to cast cure critical wounds on leroy jenkins so he could mindlessly attack till he's down again & said healer was certainly going to have the group backing him up when it comes time to berate leroy on the finer artsof stretegy & not wasting resources. [/LIST] The problem you are seeing is caused by or exacerbated by 5e's boneheaded failure to include a completed tactical combat system for play on a grid. [/QUOTE]

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