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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 6459376" data-attributes="member: 545">Whether it is a challenging problem or a stupidly tedious slog or a cakewalk depended on how many clerical spell slots the party had on hand.  Since the person writing the adventure module cannot predict such things, it just gets dropped unceremoniously into the DM's lap to make corrections on the fly.To put it bluntly, the designers seem to have decided that such was a major design flaw with 1e/2e/3e, and I agree with them there.  The design of the game should not so strongly dictate what character classes the players must choose in order to have fun -- you should play a cleric because you want to, and the party should not be forced to fall back on an NPC cleric.As for "farcically fast", you are making very strong assumptions about genre.  In action movies, comic books, and most old myths there is nothing strange about heroes who barely survive the day being ready for action aplenty the next day, as the norm.  Within the broad scope of heroic genres, the HP grind of which you speak that last for days (or weeks!) is the far outlier.Please note that I am not saying that the careful marshaling of HP resources was not sometimes very fun -- yes, it can be fun.  But IME it was also sometimes a horrible fun killer that knocked adventures off the rails.  "Gee, I guess we hide in the nearest closet and heal up as best we can, and hope the delay does result in the end of the world."</blockquote>

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