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<blockquote data-quote="BrokenTwin" data-source="post: 8933202" data-attributes="member: 7017978">Healing surges put a hard limit on the amount of healing a character is capable of throughout the day, unlike every other edition of D&amp;D where you can heal without limit via magic. The &quot;critique&quot; that was frequently put forth (on this forum, within the last year) was that healing surges were just extra healing on top of magic, which is just not true of the system in question.It's not a valid critique because it's fundamentally incorrect, and it came up CONSTANTLY by people who had never read the book or played the system. You're right, it is very possible to offer valid critiques of 4E's healing surge system. But proper critiques comes from people who actually know what they're talking about and are not relying on usually incorrect third-hand knowledge.There's a difference between a critique and an opinion. If you hear about a comedy with bad reviews and a premise that doesn't interest you, you can have an opinion (&quot;I don't think that sounds like a movie I would enjoy&quot;), but it's not a critique (&quot;The movie suffers as a comedy due to poor pacing and inconsistent characterization as demonstrated by ABC and could have been made better by XYZ&quot;).Opinions are valid and valuable, but they serve a fundamentally different purpose than critiques. And critiques and criticisms aren't the same things either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrokenTwin, post: 8933202, member: 7017978"] Healing surges put a hard limit on the amount of healing a character is capable of throughout the day, unlike every other edition of D&D where you can heal without limit via magic. The "critique" that was frequently put forth (on this forum, within the last year) was that healing surges were just extra healing on top of magic, which is just not true of the system in question. It's not a valid critique because it's fundamentally incorrect, and it came up CONSTANTLY by people who had never read the book or played the system. You're right, it is very possible to offer valid critiques of 4E's healing surge system. But proper critiques comes from people who actually know what they're talking about and are not relying on usually incorrect third-hand knowledge. There's a difference between a critique and an opinion. If you hear about a comedy with bad reviews and a premise that doesn't interest you, you can have an opinion ("I don't think that sounds like a movie I would enjoy"), but it's not a critique ("The movie suffers as a comedy due to poor pacing and inconsistent characterization as demonstrated by ABC and could have been made better by XYZ"). Opinions are valid and valuable, but they serve a fundamentally different purpose than critiques. And critiques and criticisms aren't the same things either. [/QUOTE]

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