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Message: <blockquote data-quote="merelycompetent" data-source="post: 5803814" data-attributes="member: 33830">Healing surges, as a mechanic in 4E core, do not appeal to me at all. For me and most of my crowd, that would be a deal-breaker.Now, if it was modified (especially so that my ~magic~ potion of healing still works even if I'm out of healing surges) and used to reduce the Cleric-In-A-Sack(tm)... er, I mean, bag of holding full of wands tendency in earlier editions, then it becomes much more acceptable.IIRC, even the 1E monk had a self-healing mechanic. So it's not like it's completely foreign to old school play.I think any mechanics like this will absolutely depend on the balance of the classes against each other, what changes they make to the HP mechanics, and how good a job the designers do of keeping the *magic* in the magic system.If self-healing is so prevalent and/or thorough that it's magical, then it won't work for a wide enough audience. Just look at the threads containing arguments about going from death's door to mildly battered. If self-healing isn't "good enough", then we'll see a run on Clerics-In-A-Sack (tm).(Yes, I'm exaggerating. But I think you get my point.)I'm hoping for an optional Recovery mechanic, similar to some of the ones already described. Maybe even as simple as "Class x recovers y hitpoints with a 5 minute rest, a number of times per day equal to level. Recovery can happen only once per combat/encounter/scene."Along with that, I hope they keep the Bloodied mechanics. That made for a number of cool fights when I houseruled it into my existing game.</blockquote>

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