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Originally Posted by Tom H.
I recently delved more into 5th Edition until I hit a big snag: your character automatically heals all lost HP damage after any long rest.
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In my experience the bit where you can recover half your Hit Dice after a short rest is more commonly used.
Both actually boil down to "The party recovers relatively quickly when the DM permits". The DM can prevent you from getting either length of rest any time he feels like it. Usually he doesn't as the HP mechanic leads to a "The party stops doing stuff until it gets its' HP back." condition and it is usually in the DM's interest to have the game go on.
The short rest/long rest thing does seem to do away with the "Mandatory Cleric" party role or even the "Mandatoroy Cleric Equivalent" role. That's where you swap out a Fighter and a Cleric for a Paladin and a Druid or something similar.
I do know one gamer of long experience who doesn't liek 5e Clerics after he played one in our Ravenloft game.