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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emerikol" data-source="post: 6329717" data-attributes="member: 6698278">You are right in one thing Mecha.  I do not have absolute proof that martial healing or DS mechanics are a big issue.  My experience at home, at cons, on tons of places on the internet, and on and on give me a lot of confidence that I am not alone in my preferences.  That fact that multiple DS mechanic articles got written totally independently of each other makes me think the concept is an issue.   So sure I am not 100% sure.  If God appeared and offered to give me the real answer and I could put some money on what that answer would be, I'd go straight to the bank to get the biggest loan they'd give me.There are not just two ways to view things.  I have absolute 100% blind study tested proof and I know nothing.  There is a lot of space in between those two positions.  So I do believe martial healing and DS mechanics are "issues" that affect a lot of people.  We can debate the precise percentage.  I won't take anyone seriously who says it's below 10% of the people who care about it.   We can argue 10% or 50% but the fact is the solutions are so darned easy it doesn't make sense to disregard even the 10% (if that is all it was) given the rest of the edition appears to be bullseye targeted right at those people.I mean if wotc did a study of my preferences and then discovered I did not buy 5e I would have to think their marketing department would look for somebody to fire.  I am the old school guy they appear to have created to game to attract.  They aren't making TD and Tony Vargas and the radical 4e element happy.  Those guys are a million miles away from what was done here.   They can make me happy just move things a few inches.</blockquote>

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