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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8490092" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Hit dice worked the same way since pretty early in the D&amp;D Next open playtest, with the only significant changes being when they increased the length of a short rest to an hour, when they removed the requirement to spend a use of a healer’s kit to spend them, and when they changed long rests to only give back half of your HD instead of all of them. They had plenty of opportunity to iterate on the mechanic during the playtest but didn’t, which suggests to me that it wasn’t a matter of not having time to develop the idea, but rather a matter of the mechanic having been satisfying enough for enough of the players polled right off the bat that they were afraid to mess with it too much from there.I’m hoping that the autognome in Unearthed Arcana is a sign they finally feel like they can explore the design space of hit dice a bit more. Fingers crossed that the ‘24 revisions do something with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8490092, member: 6779196"] Hit dice worked the same way since pretty early in the D&D Next open playtest, with the only significant changes being when they increased the length of a short rest to an hour, when they removed the requirement to spend a use of a healer’s kit to spend them, and when they changed long rests to only give back half of your HD instead of all of them. They had plenty of opportunity to iterate on the mechanic during the playtest but didn’t, which suggests to me that it wasn’t a matter of not having time to develop the idea, but rather a matter of the mechanic having been satisfying enough for enough of the players polled right off the bat that they were afraid to mess with it too much from there. I’m hoping that the autognome in Unearthed Arcana is a sign they finally feel like they can explore the design space of hit dice a bit more. Fingers crossed that the ‘24 revisions do something with it. [/QUOTE]

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