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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8771290" data-attributes="member: 27996">I will say that they were certainly trying.I am currently going through the video's, and while giving some answers - they have generated a much longer list of questions...Except that it is ingrained as you proved with your response to DEFCON 1's post.You admit that you immediately assumed a whole list of things that were off the table when he only mentioned one thing.And it's not just you - nor the design goals of 5e - I have gotten a similar response no matter what edition was being discussed when I have floated a similar idea in this and other forums."the one thing the designers explicitly said was meant to represent character growth"  Obviously, they Lied.Why else do they have stat increases, skill increases, and more class abilities as PC's Level Up? That's a bit more than one. It's also more than enough to represent character growth. Without HP Bloat it give a 'shallower' power curve to PC advancement. Personally I find Higher level HP power levels to be largely illusionary anyway as everything is scaled to PC power levels by design.And yes, I do hold Higher level HP Bloat in contempt because it is something that has led to mechanical scaling issues in every WotC edition of D&D which they have consistently failed to properly address. In spite of all their vaunted "playtesting".</blockquote>