Healing Surge Sub-system

[Matt James]

In the circles I run around in, there is a lot of pouting for ways to effectively challenge super-optimized PCs. Now, I know there are any variable amount of ways to accomplish this; I am not arguing that. This is merely one more way that I have found to be extremely fun and demented. It also adds some spice. Please check it out, try it out, and let me know your experience.

Healing Surge sub-system - Loremaster

[keterys]

Since these effects trigger as they spend surges, why do they want a leader? Wouldn't it be more optimal to put off spending surges for as long as possible? Or would leaders have benefits that avoid the injury subsystem?

[Matt James]

Leaders maximize healing and also have the most abilities to grant saves. It makes them even more useful to a party of optimizers that are going for DPR and sacrifice healing.

[keterys]

Mmm, less surges spent cause of big bonuses, so less triggers basically.

Anyhow, be interesting to know how this does in actual play. I suspect that the main thing it would do is encourage healing after combat instead of during, when possible. Which does add an extra element of risk / perceived danger.