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<blockquote data-quote="Kraydak" data-source="post: 5982839" data-attributes="member: 12306">Yup.&nbsp; Now remove the wand.&nbsp; Then slash the Cleric's healing spells and/or remove spontaneous casting.&nbsp; All of a sudden, the encounter DOES matter.One of 3e's errors was going from a situation where the character's HP totals significantly/vastly outweighed the HP total contained within affordably-expendable items and the Cleric's spell pool.&nbsp; All of a sudden, to stress the PCs/players, the DM needed to make fights big.&nbsp; Which meant that once the Cleric was dry, that was *it* because any fight required the Cleric to cast heals.&nbsp; Yo-yoing HP pools was a very bad change.In 1e, with NO spontaneous casting, NO +level to heals and Cure Serious a 4th level spell healing 2d8+1, ANY fight that drew a single cure spell was an important fight.&nbsp; On the other hand, a healthy party could keep adventuring even if the Cleric was dry, because they hadn't lost too much of their total (base+heals) HP pool, and they had some (expensive!) healing and extra-healing potions for emergencies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kraydak, post: 5982839, member: 12306"] Yup. Now remove the wand. Then slash the Cleric's healing spells and/or remove spontaneous casting. All of a sudden, the encounter DOES matter. One of 3e's errors was going from a situation where the character's HP totals significantly/vastly outweighed the HP total contained within affordably-expendable items and the Cleric's spell pool. All of a sudden, to stress the PCs/players, the DM needed to make fights big. Which meant that once the Cleric was dry, that was *it* because any fight required the Cleric to cast heals. Yo-yoing HP pools was a very bad change. In 1e, with NO spontaneous casting, NO +level to heals and Cure Serious a 4th level spell healing 2d8+1, ANY fight that drew a single cure spell was an important fight. On the other hand, a healthy party [B]could[/B] keep adventuring even if the Cleric was dry, because they hadn't lost too much of their total (base+heals) HP pool, and they had some (expensive!) healing and extra-healing potions for emergencies. [/QUOTE]

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