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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6103676" data-attributes="member: 37579">Let me break it down. The thing is, roughly 1/4 of the respondents fall into the four major camps, of those two of them (almost half the respondents) are strongly against the other. So favouring one side means disappointing the other. Either option is unacceptable in my eyes. There must be some effort to satisfy both or the attempt to set-up 5e as a bridge building edition fails. This is just one of many divisive issues and is likely one of the more esoteric ones the majority of the fanbase does not care about. But picking fractions of the fanbase erodes your numbers and potential buyers. Once you start saying “it’s acceptable to upset these people because they’re the minority” it doesn’t end.Which means there must be one option as a baseline and the other as an optional module. So the question is not “which option is right?” but “which is easier to add?”. The current baseline is somewhere in the middle. Hitpoints are an abstraction that represent both health and non-health so DMs can choose which to emphasise during any given round/ encounter/ session/ campaign. Currently it can be flavoured as either which satisfies both camps. Inspirational healing removes that choice.Again, it’s always easier to add than subtract. Yes, this isn’t logical but humans aren’t logical. We’re creatures of emotion! Passion! (I’m fighting the urge to throw a “pointed-eared Vulcan hobgobin” shot in here.)Adding is simply easier because the factors are known. You’re adding something. But when subtracting something from the game it’s less obvious what the effects will be or if you’re forgetting anything. Hitpoints are a good example. Warlords are not the only example of inspirational healing in 4e. Once it made the decision that hitpoints would not be health there was second wind and various other non-magical healing. So taking out the warlord doesn’t solve the problem because you also need to remove second wind, which means you need to find a new dwarven racial power. And there are feats and powers tied to second wind and dwarves and warlords. It’s complicated because everything gets interrelated. But adding is finite. You’re taking a self-contained addition such as second wind, inspirational healing, and the like and adding it into the game. This pleases both parties. The people who don’t want inspirational healing don’t use those modules and don’t change their game while the people who want inspirational healing can add it into their game with minimal changes and work. </blockquote>

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