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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cybit" data-source="post: 6323222" data-attributes="member: 66111">Aight, let's take this one at a time1) EDIT: Confirmed in a post below by Claude, thank ya!  (<a href="https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/482244757180014593" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mikemearls/status/482244757180014593</a>)2) There are two sets of data; the public playtest data (which contained second wind as temp HP originally) and the closed playtest data.  In the final public playtest it was sent out as Temp HP; it has since been at least changed for the Starter Set version to normal HP.  WotC has said repeatedly that most of the changes late in the game made have been done so when it is overwhelming feedback leaning towards making that change, and that they've been surprised repeatedly by some of the results.  In the livestream itself done about a week ago (<a href="http://www.twitch.tv/wotc_dnd/c/4523741" target="_blank">http://www.twitch.tv/wotc_dnd/c/4523741</a>), around the 47 minute mark, they talk about how it was going to be temp HP, but playtesters found the real HP version very popular, something that surprised them (as they said, these differences between what they thought people would like and what people ended up liking happened somewhat frequently).  So the developers of the game with the playtest data have said that the real HP version was popular enough to override their initial idea of making it temp HP.  Unless you assume WotC is flat out lying; that's a fairly straight forward repudiation of the idea that "lots" of people are outraged against SW being real HP.  That said, I think that by the third story release you will probably see some pretty gritty versions of characters to play as; I would expect either a temp HP version or as a reaction to being hit by an attack DR version by then.   I was told by a friend that one of the developers is running a Dragonlance game in 5E and that it had pretty significant differences from base 5E; but I haven't seen that one directly yet.  Just my two cents.</blockquote>

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