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<blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8355157" data-attributes="member: 7015698">and with no Healing Surge you can't have simple environmental encounters or traps. Like, in 4e you could say &quot;The weather takes a turn for the worse! Everybody give me an Endurance check, if you don't get X, you lose a Healing Surge&quot; boom, minor encounter for the day, ticks one more HS down and now the party realize they NEED to find shelter, quick! Do they press on and hope they find something before having to roll endurance again? Or maybe they try to build a make shift shelter which might take too long if they roll poorly on Survival and might result in them losing another Healing Surge! Traps that trigger can just take a healing surge, no need to calculate damage or anything. It's super easy to homebrew stuff that work like this.God I miss that aspect... playing a support character in 5e is SO unrewarding and underwhelming! I've yet to try a Cavalier or someone with Sentinel but that might be my only option to have some support fun in combat...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undrave, post: 8355157, member: 7015698"] and with no Healing Surge you can't have simple environmental encounters or traps. Like, in 4e you could say "The weather takes a turn for the worse! Everybody give me an Endurance check, if you don't get X, you lose a Healing Surge" boom, minor encounter for the day, ticks one more HS down and now the party realize they NEED to find shelter, quick! Do they press on and hope they find something before having to roll endurance again? Or maybe they try to build a make shift shelter which might take too long if they roll poorly on Survival and might result in them losing another Healing Surge! Traps that trigger can just take a healing surge, no need to calculate damage or anything. It's super easy to homebrew stuff that work like this. God I miss that aspect... playing a support character in 5e is SO unrewarding and underwhelming! I've yet to try a Cavalier or someone with Sentinel but that might be my only option to have some support fun in combat... [/QUOTE]

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