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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6315758" data-attributes="member: 18">Indeed. We won't know until mid-November, I guess, which seems like quite a while, but perhaps they'll talk about it once they've got the PHB out. Certainly I'm hoping we see options to make PCs more self-sufficient, healing-wise, than is the default in 5E.Yeah, that looks solid, and one good thing is that there isn't, as far as I can tell, any assumption that the default Cleric is a specialized healer-Cleric, which means there is less or no delta between a Cleric and other classes with access to the same spells. I have a strong feeling that WotC are either going to forget their Warlord-related quasi-promises, and not include it as a real option at all in the PHB, or make it so they really can't even approximate those classes in terms of helping a group, but hopefully I will be surprised. As noted above, on top of that the DMG is going to need some decent self-support optional rules for groups who don't possess any of those classes, because unlike 4E, 5E intentionally doesn't have the kind of tight balance where the lack of healer can be compensated for by the sheer power of another role (for better or worse), and this playtest report certainly chimes with all the playtesting I did, earlier on, regarding the value of a "full healer".</blockquote>