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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9819117" data-attributes="member: 93670">Ne even early 5e  still had pretty solid overlap with that part of the venn diagram.   A lot of the reason for that inescapable fact boils down to the way death saves and the removal of a need to heal all damage between 0 & neg ten from hovering on death's door birthed <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/does-%E2%80%9Cwhack-a-mole%E2%80%9D-healing-really-happen-in-games.677252/post-8157047" target="_blank">yoyo/wackamole healing</a>. That first bit of cozy poisoned fruit was turbocharged by how all of the monsters have math assuming a bonkers trifecta of A: deliberately under optimized PCs with no feats in a game where feats are such an expected default that they are practically a trope B: no magic items in a game that has been literally swimming in magic items since the earliest editions C: the choice to give PC's an absurd 6-8 medium-hsrd adventuring day gas tank that makes the grindiest of ultra grindy grindfests say "whoa... Wait a second".  Saying it was done in service of roleplay and storytelling while so gratuitouslt lighting the Hickman manifesto that kicked off the story in d&d trend just makes even the 2014 phb alone scoot further into the overlapping bit of the venn diagram[Spoiler="Hickman manifesto"]<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">A player objective more worthwhile than simply pillaging and killing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">An intriguing story that is intricately woven into play itself.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Dungeons with an architectural sense.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">An attainable and honorable end within one to two sessions playing time</li> </ol>[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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