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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9711943" data-attributes="member: 907">That's because fully attrition-based games are dull. Individual encounters often don't pose a challenge, because their job is to wear you down a little so the fourth or seventh or tenth encounter actually becomes dangerous. That's why healing surges in 4e was such a genius move – they allowed you to have combats that actually felt dangerous (because enemies actually had a chance of taking you out), but then let you heal back to full between fights (so you can have another dangerous-feeling fight), and still had an attrition thing going because the surges themselves were limited.This is as opposed to 3e and 5e, where the hp you have are what you got, with healing magic supplementing them. This requires the party to have someone with the ability to heal. 5e supplements this somewhat with Hit Dice, but those are much more limited than 4e's healing surges (~100% of your max hp in "reserve healing", and accessing them takes an hour, as opposed to ~150% to 250%, and accessing them takes 5 minutes). In 3e, of course, the attrition model was broken from the start as soon as someone figured out wands of cure light wounds.Pathfinder 2 is a bit odd in this regard. At first glance, it seems more like 3e, although with stronger healing magic (particularly at higher levels – low-level healing feels a little weak on account of the extra hp from ancestry). But then you have Treat Wounds, which lets you heal between fights using no resource at all other than time (10 min per target with a target-based 1 hour cooldown; skill feats exist that let you treat multiple targets at once or reduce the cooldown to 10 min which runs simultaneously with the actual time to use the skill). You also have focus spells for many casters, which they recover between fights.</blockquote>

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