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[Dannyalcatraz]

Flat no to any sort of ranged healing. I could see giving them some traffic-direction and minor buffing abilities e.g. a built-in Bless to allies within 10 feet.

Depends on how it works.

There’s 2 Feats in 3.5 called Sacred Healing (1). The first one grants the ability to use Turn Undead attempt to give Fast Healing 3 for (1+Cha bonus)rounds in a 60' burst. I used that feat for a Geomancer PC in a RttToEE campaign to do most of the heavy lifting for healing (2). It can heal a LOT of damage (3), and auto-stabilizes those who have fallen.

In some ways, it’s like the Mass Cure family of spells.

But because it’s a 60’ burst (and not targeted), you absolutely cannot use it once the party & its allies have closed to melee range. If you do, your enemies will also benefit from the healing. Same goes for any enemies within the AoE that you’re not aware of.

As I recall, there was also a 3.5Ed Feat that turned a Touch spell into a Ray. Applying that to a healing spell gives you a ranged heal effect…that can miss, because you’d have to make a ranged touch attack roll.





(1) FWIW, I contacted WotC about this: the second one was NOT intended to be a rewrite & replacement of the original- it’s just that someone didn’t do a good job of checking to see if the name had already been used.

(2) for this PC, that was healing 45HP over the duration of the effect.

(3) a 60’ burst can contain a LOT of creatures.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We have a cultural aversion to raw animal flesh and there are plenty of people who won't touch raw oysters with a ten foot pole while others consider it a delicacy. There are a lot of older Americans especially who overcook the hell out of their meat because they were inculcated with a fear of undercooked flesh, trichinosis in pork for example, causing sickness. I thought I hated porkchops until I got married and realized my mother had been overcooking them all my life. A few years ago I went out to dinner at a fancy Mexican restaurant that served ceviche as an appetizer and I had it all to myself because nobody else at the table would touch "raw" shrimp.

I don't get why so many people are down on MSG. I used to think it was some weird chemical and was surprised to find out it was just a naturally occurring salt. Turns out the complaints about it causing headaches and other ailments are mostly nonsense.

RE: raw animal products

Some of that relates back to safe food handling rules, especially those at the production end of the modern food supply chain. I know several people who grew up on farms who eat EVERYTHING medium to well-done.

Personally, I eat my fair share of raw animal products. Sushi/sashimi is my preferred prep for tuna. I like a good ceviche. I’ve had raw eggs more than once- the first time, in a foreign country where English was NOT the primary language. I haven’t had steak tartare or related dishes, but I’m not averse to doing do.

While trichinosis is for all intents and purposes eradicated in the USA, I do cook most of my pork to juuuuuust medium doneness. But I do eat uncooked but cured pork products like prosciutto.

Raw oysters, though part of my Creole culture’s cuisine, I avoid. Can’t stand the texture; can’t get them down easily. The last/only time I ate them as an adult was in a ceviche in a Mexican Mexican restaurant. And they were the worst part of it. (OTOH, my grandfather and his best friend got thrown out of a seafood restaurant featuring “all you could eat” oysters on the half shell after ordering their 6th dozen platter…EACH.)

Re: MSG

It’s really only a problem for people like me, who are extremely sensitive to sodium intake when it comes to regulating their blood pressure.

But, just like sensitivity to gluten is only a problem for people with certain allergies or celiac disease, it somehow got unfairly morphed into a villain for the general populace.

 

[Jd Smith1]

D&D is the Larry Bird of RPG’s.

More like the PeeWee Herman of RPGs.

 

[Reynard]

One should read the thread before posting.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

One should read the thread before posting.

That's crazy-talk! That'd be like fully reading the OP, and not just the headline!

 

[payn]

Re: MSG

It’s really only a problem for people like me, who are extremely sensitive to sodium intake when it comes to regulating their blood pressure.

But, just like sensitivity to gluten is only a problem for people with certain allergies or celiac disease, it somehow got unfairly morphed into a villain for the general populace.

It wasnt somehow, it was a targeted attack. Thats all I'll say.

 

[FrogReaver]

More like the PeeWee Herman of RPGs.

How about a compromise? Larry Bird and PeeWee Herman’s Love Child of RPG’s?

 

[Fifth Element]

The only thing worse than the deification of the people who started this hobby, is the unthinking trashing of them.

Fear not! Most trashing of Gygax is the result of perfectly-reasoned, well-considered thought.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

The 2e Dragonlance Tales of the Lance boxed set had different names for each deity as they were known by each nation/race. We used to include little bits of that in our campaigns by having a NPC be offended if the PCs referred to a deity in their presence by the common name a human might know. I believe they took a similar approach with the Taladas continent material, but went a step further by having some minor deities mistaken for avatars of another deity due to their worship never really flourishing on that continent.

For D&D, I have always been a greater fan of DL's one pantheon with "same deity, different name" and greater or lesser influence over a geopolitical area than FR's "We have seventeen gods of death*".

*Admittedly, that's partially due to them constantly killing each other off. Ironic, no?

I've never been much of a fan of racial pantheons, if I'm being honest.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It wasnt somehow, it was a targeted attack. Thats all I'll say.

No worries- I wasn’t taking it as one!