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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9103845" data-attributes="member: 6879661">One big issue for me that has several components. The homogenization of harm into a big pile of hp for each creature.Ability score damage is largely gone, and through it, interesting diseases, poisons, curses and monster abilities. Combat consists on wailing on the other side until their piñata of hp drops to zero at which point they die. Suffering no loss of effectiveness up to this point, and regaining 100% fighting effectiveness as soon as they are restored to 1hp. High level combat (anything over level 9) becomes deadly tedious. Exhaustion rules are very sparse and have very little impact on the regular game without serious modification.- There is no meaningful risk in combat because usually characters either all make it or all die. There is no half way measures. The nature of whackamole healing means players are more likely to take risks to stay in the fight. Everyone is completely restored of hp in short order anyway and hp is the only resource relevant to a persons health as mentioned.All together it makes combat pretty boring at high levels - a low levels it’s not such a problem as other elements of the game are more relevant and the hp totals are generally lower making it much less of a slog.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 9103845, member: 6879661"] One big issue for me that has several components. The homogenization of harm into a big pile of hp for each creature. Ability score damage is largely gone, and through it, interesting diseases, poisons, curses and monster abilities. Combat consists on wailing on the other side until their piñata of hp drops to zero at which point they die. Suffering no loss of effectiveness up to this point, and regaining 100% fighting effectiveness as soon as they are restored to 1hp. High level combat (anything over level 9) becomes deadly tedious. Exhaustion rules are very sparse and have very little impact on the regular game without serious modification. - There is no meaningful risk in combat because usually characters either all make it or all die. There is no half way measures. The nature of whackamole healing means players are more likely to take risks to stay in the fight. Everyone is completely restored of hp in short order anyway and hp is the only resource relevant to a persons health as mentioned. All together it makes combat pretty boring at high levels - a low levels it’s not such a problem as other elements of the game are more relevant and the hp totals are generally lower making it much less of a slog. [/QUOTE]

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