Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3509798" data-attributes="member: 18363">I've been expecting something like this . . .The design philosophy at WotC has changed over the last few years. It used to be that the group adventured from X number of encounters to X number of encounters. Casters had to pace themselves to make it through X number of encounters before having a chance to re-charge. Now, however, the philosophy is to balance against one encounter. Recharging totally between encounters seems almost expected. In the midst of a combat, healing a few points is useful, but it is not game breaking, as a typical attack will often take off more than is healed. It basically allows the healed character another round or two before they are back where they were before, at the cost of the cleric (or caster, as bards, druids, etc can probably also use this) not attacking, etc for that one round. Between encounters, this more or less means that the entire party can be healed up before the next encounter. With other reserve feats allowing near infinite minor to moderate magic and (semi) new classes like the warlock having infinite casting, this means that the party is fully re-charged between every encounter - instead of between every few encounters. Its part of a paradigm shift. I'm most surprised, I think, not by the reserve feat that allows for infinite (albeit in small increments) healing, but instead by the surprise some people are having over this. As I said above, I've been expecting something like this . . .</blockquote>

Verification