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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8241300" data-attributes="member: 52734">I think the primary issue people have with this spell is they don’t like the Bonus Action to bring someone back into the fight so easily and quickly.  I think most DMs from older editions of the game prefer that when someone in the combat is dropped to 0 (on either side), they are out of participation for the rest of the combat, and that quickly patching them back up to get back into the fight creates a dissonance in storytelling they don’t like.  It is part and parcel to the “1+ hit point and your fine, 0 hit points or less and your (unconscious and) dying” binary state of D&D.  Healing Word comes across like mage handing smelling salts under PC noses to get them back in the fight.I confess to having some sympathy to this viewpoint.</blockquote>