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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7955164" data-attributes="member: 6801845">Well I think most people modified the game back in the day somehow.  We just took a week off and assumed the party cleric prayed for spells to heal everyone every day.  That and we created all sorts of "healing herbs" and other work-arounds.But there are optional rules for slow healing similar to older editions in the DMG as well.  Not the default, but the default does seem to be dungeon-crawling without requiring a cleric.I think the main difference is that you can play D&D on easy mode out of the box.  Back in ye-olden days you had to modify the system to allow for easier mode. Gygax's idea of fun promoted a very DM-player adversarial style.</blockquote>