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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8492214" data-attributes="member: 6779196">The tricky thing is, while 4e characters started out with more healing surges than 5e characters do with hit dice, they rarely if ever gained any more of them. They were static in number and scaled in value as you gained levels, which is exactly the opposite of what hit dice do. So, just increasing how many of them characters get wouldn’t do the trick.I think if you wanted to make hit dice work as a limit on daily healing, you’d have to either re-work them completely, or balance healing around the fact that a hit die represents an ever-decreasing proportion of the character’s maximum hit points, that you gain increasingly more of. Healing spells and potions would have to be balanced around how many hit dice they allowed the target to spend.If we assume a character only recovers hit points through hit dice expenditure, then characters can access about 50% of their daily hit points at a time, with the other 50% in reserve. And actually that’s not necessarily true either, since a long rest only gets you back half your maximum number of hit dice, so if you’re consistently using them all, you have access to more like 75% of your daily HP at a time. This compared to 4e where you had access to more like 25%-33%of your daily hit points at a time, depending on your class. So, if we want to replicate 4e healing, we’d want characters to have about twice as many hit dice as their level, and to regain them all on a long rest instead of only half. Then, a healing source would need to allow you to spend a number of hit dice up to half your level to be worth the equivalent of a 4e healing surge, at 1/4 your HP maximum. Before any additional healing.So, in this hypothetical system, I imagine Cure Wounds would let the target spend 1 hit die per level cast and add the caster’s spellcasting ability mod instead of the target’s con. That feels pretty good, actually. Healing Word is worth 2 HP less than Cure Wounds on average, so maybe it does the same thing, but you don’t add any ability modifier, you just get the unmodified dice roll. Again, that feels pretty good to me.You’d have to do this for every healing spell, which would be a lot of work. But it seems pretty doable.</blockquote>

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