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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7397360" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Max HPs for PCs and foes stretches out combat, making it more of a grind.</p><p></p><p>It devalues healing, and in-combat healing except for standing up fallen allies is already cheap.</p><p></p><p>It devalues all limited resources (superiority dice, spells, etc.) that don't last an entire combat because combat lasts more rounds so it's active for less of your actions, and damage takes a double whammy because it also is doing a smaller percentage than expected.</p><p></p><p>CON is worth about half of what it was before in terms of your total HPs.</p><p></p><p>All of that said, if you are one of the many that take the path of "fewer that then 6-8 recommended encounters, but harder", then some of these points balance out because your rounds per day works out - up per encounter but less encounters. It still makes spells and other limited resources that last for an entire combat a bit more effective, but otherwise is a decent foil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7397360, member: 20564"] Max HPs for PCs and foes stretches out combat, making it more of a grind. It devalues healing, and in-combat healing except for standing up fallen allies is already cheap. It devalues all limited resources (superiority dice, spells, etc.) that don't last an entire combat because combat lasts more rounds so it's active for less of your actions, and damage takes a double whammy because it also is doing a smaller percentage than expected. CON is worth about half of what it was before in terms of your total HPs. All of that said, if you are one of the many that take the path of "fewer that then 6-8 recommended encounters, but harder", then some of these points balance out because your rounds per day works out - up per encounter but less encounters. It still makes spells and other limited resources that last for an entire combat a bit more effective, but otherwise is a decent foil. [/QUOTE]
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