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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8083236" data-attributes="member: 93670">Spare the dying is a nice idea that is made stupid by other parts of the system even beyond the stupid absorb shield death saves & level 1 heal to recharge the one or two spent saves.  It's literally a touch range cantrip that does the same thing as a cheap 10 charge healer's kit at the same range and same action cost.  If you didn't have healing word & spare the dying was 15 or 30ft range so you could "save" bob without actually doing anything for him so the fight can be finished it might have a reason to exist but cantrips are wayy too rare to waste on saving 50cp charges of healers  kits anyone could use.  Grave clerics get a version with some range that eats a bonus action rather than range but it's not like 5e has th same "bob is bleeding out!11!!!!!1111" worries for so many reasons.[ATTACH=full]125759[/ATTACH]edit:  While it might look like it should be on the maybe list it's really not & witing till level 4 to get that 4th cantrip is't a big deal either even in a really slow advancing campaign</blockquote>