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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6066316" data-attributes="member: 2067">I hadn't said a thing about any particular 4e class? I had compared my experiences with 4e combat to earlier-e combat and found 4e combat to be overall a slightly more complex and fiddly experience than before, and gave a supporting point to illustrate why that may be the case for me, in the context of illustrating that different editions have been able to accommodate different levels of customization, while remaining overall quite customizable despite this. That's up to the individual group, I imagine. The system can be built in such a way that none of it is essential to play. For WotC's purposes, I don't imagine they'd stray far from the pen-and-paper heroic fantasy that is traditional for D&D, but there's no reason in my mind that they cannot allow for other tables to have their own interpretation of what "D&D" means to them, even if it becomes a space opera game about politics and intrigue played using a monopoly board and poker hands. That might not be my D&D or your D&D or Jeremy Crawford's D&D, or WotC's D&D, but there's little need to play gate-keeper to what that word could mean for every table out there, and lots of reasons not to.I think your second sentence undercuts your first one here. If you see D&D as requiring a certain kind of HP rule, then HP in D&D are single-purpose only. I don't think HP in D&D are anything like a "major system," so I can see a lot of different ways to use it to accomplish a lot of different goals for a multitude of different tables who might never use HP in the cinematic way that you seem to feel it must be used in.</blockquote>

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