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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8354422" data-attributes="member: 907">Another major difference is that in 4e you had a mostly-fixed number of healing surges, each of which scaled with your total hp. In 5e, you get more HD as you level up, but each of them still does mostly the same thing. This means that you can't use a healing surge as a cost in the same way as in 4e, because a 4e healing surge was roughly the same cost regardless of level. It also means that a 4e ability that let you spend a healing surge was always about the same power level, but a 5e ability that lets you spend a HD becomes weaker as you level up.It is a mistake when you balance classes around being able to recover their abilities multiple times per day, and the adventures then don't afford them that opportunity. The thing is that there are very few situations where you could take a one-hour short rest and couldn't instead just call it a day – the difference only matters if you're under time pressure. But if you have a 5-10 minute short rest instead, that's something you can do while adventuring.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8354422, member: 907"] Another major difference is that in 4e you had a mostly-fixed number of healing surges, each of which scaled with your total hp. In 5e, you get more HD as you level up, but each of them still does mostly the same thing. This means that you can't use a healing surge as a cost in the same way as in 4e, because a 4e healing surge was roughly the same cost regardless of level. It also means that a 4e ability that let you spend a healing surge was always about the same power level, but a 5e ability that lets you spend a HD becomes weaker as you level up. It is a mistake when you balance classes around being able to recover their abilities multiple times per day, and the adventures then don't afford them that opportunity. The thing is that there are very few situations where you could take a one-hour short rest and couldn't instead just call it a day – the difference only matters if you're under time pressure. But if you have a 5-10 minute short rest instead, that's something you can do while adventuring. [/QUOTE]

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