✨D&D/TTRPG Question of the Day✨ Tell me about your party's designated healer! Any system. Did you have a cleric? A doctor? A medic of some kind? Someone really into homeopathic remedies? And was this designated healer someone who seemed typical for the role, or were they more unexpected & quirky? - ThreadSky

alexsgamingcorner.bsky.social • 99 days ago

✨D&D/TTRPG Question of the Day✨

Tell me about your party's designated healer! Any system. Did you have a cleric? A doctor? A medic of some kind? Someone really into homeopathic remedies? And was this designated healer someone who seemed typical for the role, or were they more unexpected & quirky?

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dreadquill.com•99 days ago

I played a Kenku charlatan "plague doctor" in pathfinder 1E called Dr Letitia Bloodfunk. She had a base bluff skill of +22 and simply convinced people to get over their broken bones or severed limbs

alexsgamingcorner.bsky.social•99 days ago

Oh, that's wild. I love that though! Though I wonder at how her "patients" wound up feeling about that, in the long run, after she'd left, haha.

dreadquill.com•99 days ago

All their humours were perfectly balanced, sometimes with a free bloodletting thrown in. An important part of the hypocritical oath she swore was to always move town every few days, for patient confidentiality reasons you see

ofmetalandmagic.bsky.social•99 days ago

I don’t think any of my groups have had a healer in YEARS 😭 Last one I played was an automaton that could store life magic (hence how he was alive in the first place), and dispense it through casting

alexsgamingcorner.bsky.social•99 days ago

That's a cool healer, though! How have you been managing without a healer in so long?

ofmetalandmagic.bsky.social•99 days ago

I'm the GM, so the adventures and encounters just take it into account (and however many healing potions the party has).

calarion.bsky.social•99 days ago

In our Warhammer Fantasy game, my wife plays Wulfhilda Durchdenwald, a hedge witch and former herbalist. She has no magical healing, just poultices and potions of limited efficacy. She also only has four fingers after a nasty fight. Schlim, the ugliest dog in the world, is her pet and helper.

alexsgamingcorner.bsky.social•99 days ago

Aww that's fun! I love healers that tend to rely more on potions and salves and things like that. It's so fun to see characters interacting with another element to healing outside of just like, the magical healing that you see in some systems.

calarion.bsky.social•99 days ago

She's not actually very good at healing. The party's main healing system is running very fast in the other direction.

veritastabletop.bsky.social•99 days ago

My white whale of homebrew is creating a D&D healer class based on the humors / humoral medicine, but I’ve never figured out how to make it work.

(No group right now, so I’m answering a related prompt lol)

chellekat.bsky.social•99 days ago

We had *no* healer in our party of 5 so my hexblood caster gal (custom class) dipped into druid... Mostly for circle-of-stars wildshape reasons but now I'm the healer.

alexsgamingcorner.bsky.social•99 days ago

Ooh that's neat! I love Stars druids, they're very cool. It's always kind of funny when you wind up slipping into a role that you didn't necessarily initially plan on filling for a party.

chellekat.bsky.social•99 days ago

She was already doing a lot of support and had an otherwise very unreliable spell selection based on the class, so multiclassing helps with reliability and the party needs more than Bless and potions to keep us going. Druid was a natural fit for her based on backstory so it's been a good change.

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