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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ratskinner" data-source="post: 5903435" data-attributes="member: 6688937">I feel :meh: about healing surges.Why limit magical healing?  If you need to do so for your campaign...just do it? Though, I'd support a short module on it for the DMs who are inclined this way. On the other hand, I never actually found my 4e bumping up against this limit. Then again, if there's a limit that doesn't get reached...why have it...my 'surges' become another number to track with no influence on the game.I never saw the CLW wand problem in 3.x play, but it seems more like a 3e wand-design issue, not a healing mechanic problem. Especially since there are other low-level utility spells that are problematic when wand-ified.  Here's a crazy thought....why not just make healing effects scale with the target instead of with the level of caster/initiator/perpetrator? I mean healing surges do this alright, but older school editions could houserule this with a pencil.I don't really hate Healing Surges as presented in 4e, but to me, they felt like a mildly klunky solution to other problems. They weren't so clunky that I've thought, "OMG! Healing surges killed my D&D!" Nor do I feel they played a large part in the "feel" differences between 4e and previous editions. (My irritation at HP mechanics in general might overshadow that, though.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />) Given the profound hatred that they seem to engender/embody in many others, I'm not sure I'd like to see them as part of the default healing mechanic in D&DN.</blockquote>

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