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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 6750769" data-attributes="member: 48965">Well not supporting 1 style that 4e did support... does not necessarily equate to supporting less play styles than 4e did.  But for why I believe this particular playstyle is not supported by 5e out of the box...This tells me a few things about magic in default D&D...1. Magic is a part of default D&D (Note this doesn't preclude S&S campaigns, it just means they'll be more Fafhrd & The Grey Mouser or Elric and Corum than Conan)2.  This is where the healing and support that martial character's need to survive comes from (My play experiences so far tend to support this as it's much better in 5e for a caster to heal or buff a martial then to end up needing healing or running headlong into something themselves while buffed, especially with concentration).3. Great magic is rare... minor magic is common (Out the box this speaks to more Tolkien based, for high fantasy... or Moorcockian based, for S&S games, where even those considered martial have some magic... as opposed to Conan or GoT)4. Magic is a tool for heroes and villains5. D&D out of the box isn't meant to be a no-magic setting... that's just not really D&D...</blockquote>