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<blockquote data-quote="Aribar" data-source="post: 6563138" data-attributes="member: 6777974"><p>What 4E did, and 5E attempts to do, is not give you all your HP at once. the exact math escapes me first thing in the morning, but the typical 4E character had about three times as much HP in healing surges as they actually had. (Monsters also weren't as rocket-taggy and, maybe this is just a personal anecdote, had super high &quot;offense CR&quot; compared to &quot;defensive CR&quot;)&nbsp; This allows them to wear down that resources instead of having a gigantic pool of HP. Outside of a few rare exceptions, all healing forced someone to use a healing surge. Got a million wands of CLW? Meh, you can still only benefit from so much magic to hold you together. If a party's going through a dungeon and each character only has like 0-2 surges left, they could all still be close to full HP (so still capable of performing in combat), but have very little ability to bounce back/persevere/recover from damage and would like to take a break or return to civilization.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Aribar, post: 6563138, member: 6777974"] What 4E did, and 5E attempts to do, is not give you all your HP at once. the exact math escapes me first thing in the morning, but the typical 4E character had about three times as much HP in healing surges as they actually had. (Monsters also weren't as rocket-taggy and, maybe this is just a personal anecdote, had super high "offense CR" compared to "defensive CR") This allows them to wear down that resources instead of having a gigantic pool of HP. Outside of a few rare exceptions, all healing forced someone to use a healing surge. Got a million wands of CLW? Meh, you can still only benefit from so much magic to hold you together. If a party's going through a dungeon and each character only has like 0-2 surges left, they could all still be close to full HP (so still capable of performing in combat), but have very little ability to bounce back/persevere/recover from damage and would like to take a break or return to civilization. [/QUOTE]

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