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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7262791" data-attributes="member: 996">HD healing can extend the adventuring day, but in the absence of class balance issues with large amounts of daily resources in the form of spell slots, that's not really a terribly important issue - in-combat healing, OTOH, can be. They did come right out and say they 'didn't assume' magic items, and it does show in the way encounter balance can skew when items are included.  But, spells are very much assumed, and the absence of support and other capabilities that are primarily or only available through spells is problematic - as is the simple lack of range in concepts & contributions that non-supernatural PC options encompass. There is a difference between an explicit rule, like a keyword, with a jargon meaning in context, and an 'opinion' that is the exact opposite of that explicit rule.  The difference being is that the rule is a simple fact about the game in question, and the opinion is a judgement of how desirable that rule is.  D&D, for instance, has always had explicit rules about magic making at least some casters in D&D 'Vancian,'  it has been a common opinion that such is simply not how magic works.  The opinion is wrong in the context of D&D, but the opinion that D&D's magic system doesn't model most source material (even Dying Earth, if we get technical & exact about it), is not invalid, just a judgement. Similarly, Oofta could have opined that the superhuman feats of 4e martial characters were, say 'unrealistic.'  It's merely calling them 'supernatural' or magical or 'casting spells,' that is false, even with an 'IMHO' fatuously appended....it's super-human, but not supernatural.   Supernatural feats are things done through agencies outside of nature and natural experience.  Jumping is a natural agency, the strength & skill of the person doing it, it's not supernatural, in itself, even if it is super-human or unrealistic by the bar set by modern knowledge of physics.   Casting a jump spell, OTOH, relates an action (mumbling and breaking insect legs) that, in nature, doesn't cause you to move let alone leap any distance, and an agency not found in nature (magic), to the otherwise natural act of jumping - it's supernatural.Of course, like the supernatural, the super-human can be fantastic (suitable for a fantasy setting), "naive" (suitable for an pre-scientific traditional tale),  or unrealistic (not suitable for a accurate simulation of RL, or a hard-science-fiction story).  So the conflation is understandable.</blockquote>

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