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As far as I can tell, for direct in-combat healing powers we've got Sariel can heal anyone with Inspiring Word 3x/encounter Everyone can use second wind once per encounter (either on their own or triggered by a DC 10 Heal check - Sariel, Durn, and Althous cannot fail a DC 10 Heal check) Durn...

How did you build a 4e PC 'scholar' character that's bad at combat? A lazy warlord (or bard or shaman built along the same lines) or a pacifist cleric may well be bad at dealing damage directly, but they're still effective contributors to combat.

I could swap some of Sariel's utility powers for healing powers, but except for the level 10 ones, they're not as good as Inspiring Word so she'd need to be down to her fourth healing power use for the encounter before she'd break them out.

And really, if we don't get TPK'd, Sariel knows Comrade's Succor (so we can shift healing surges around at need) and Raise Dead.

Well, each inspiring word is surge value + 3d6 + 5 and you'll get 13 temp HPs any time you use an action point...

And I just realized Sariel has no combat healing powers beyond Inspiring Word. Though she can do Inspiring Word three times per encounter and give out a lot of temp HPs...

Sariel still has her girlish figure, thank you very much :)...

No, combat has to be balanced. It's too big of a part of the game, and it's the part that's life or death for the PCs. If a character sucks at combat, then why is a group that's fighting all the time bringing that character along (out of character, it's because the guy playing him is your...

In every edition of D&D, fighters have terrible non-combat class abilities. They aren't sneaky, aren't suave (unless the player is and the DM allows that to overrule lack of charisma and social NWPs or skills), and don't have utility abilities (non-combat spells, ranger's tracking, etc.). Even...

Small note here - by the book, cats are not subject to the range limits of other 4e familiars.

"Some belong to my staff." She said. "Why do you ask?"

Another issue is that the "XX replies" link on the home page goest to a reply form, not to the first comment (or first new comment). Which is counter-intuitive.

It's pre-game tossing stuff around; hafrogman's free to disavow anything I write ...

* a few weeks after Heise and Sariel's first meeting * "So, do you think you would like me around after this?" Sariel asked, in the rapid-fire speech she slipped into when she was excited. "I can't say you haven't been useful. Mostly not in ways your father would have approved of, though."...

... which led to every modestly powergaming caster player developing a good database of spells that bypassed SR and/or taking feats to improve chances of beating SR.

I almost think WotC is secretly hoping for a response like yours (which is pretty similar to my own), as if they want the player base to demand everything worth having of 4e back and show why it's needed for a well-balanced game.

* a tavern somewhere in Faerun * A young eladrin woman played a flute in the corner. She was not familiar to the regular customers, who knew who the innkeeper regularly hired, and the traveling minstrels who rode this circuit. She might be new at the trade, but she was too good; if she showed...

There is a mechanic to resist spell effects in D&D and it is saving throws (or defenses in 4e). There is a mechanic to resist physical effects in D&D and it is armor class. Adding a second mechanism on top of this only makes things confusing to little purpose and a lot of frustration. SR and...

With the negotiations completed, Lady Daybringer brings you to another room for the promised meal. the problematic cat does not followWhile finishing desert, a messenger interrupts and speaks with Lady Daybringer. They step out of the room and confer for a few minutes, then return. "It seems...

It's not possible with the character builder sheets, but it might be useful to note any permanent synergy effects somewhere. I guess it's possible you'll start combat more than 10 squares from Sariel or where you can't see and hear her, but you should almost always have the +6 to initiative...