D&D 5E Ban Variant-Human! Impact?

[FrogReaver]

"Regain" and "restore" mean the same thing in this context. I don't know how "from this feat" doesn't mean "the healer feat"; not "this use of the healer feat".

RAW says only regaining hp causes the healer's feat to not function. Restoring hp doesn't trigger that effect as it requires regaining hp. By pure 100% RAW why can't you agree that's the case?

 

[Esker]

RAW says only regaining hp causes the healer's feat to not function. Restoring hp doesn't trigger that effect as it requires regaining hp. By pure 100% RAW why can't you agree that's the case?

I know that you're being deliberately silly because you think I'm being silly. And you might be right that the intent was for the limitation only to apply to the second bulletpoint. Sure would be nice if they'd corrected that wording in an errata though, if that were the case.

 

[Zardnaar]

Absolutely. Healer is one role you can fill with a cleric. But fortunately (for my taste) it's not the only one.

I think people expect to be good at healing and they're kinda not due to power creep and how 5E plays.


Healing word is for emergency healing and cure is barely any better than clw in 3E in an edition where everything hits almost twice as hard at low level.

Healer feat is also better than the other healer type classes.

 

[FrogReaver]

I know that you're being deliberately silly because you think I'm being silly. And you might be right that the intent was for the limitation only to apply to the second bulletpoint. Sure would be nice if they'd corrected that wording in an errata though, if that were the case.

When you use the spell goodberry is the spell healing or is it the berry it creates that heals?

All this feat does is turn your healers kits when used to stabilize into goodberry-like objects. The feat itself isn't healing in that circumstance. However, the feat can heal when you take the action it grants that explicitly heals a creature.

 

[Esker]

Healer feat is also better than the other healer type classes.

It's good; no argument there. And yet I haven't seen anybody take it at 1st level as a variant human. YMMV, obviously.

 

[Esker]

When you use the spell goodberry is the spell healing or is it the berry it creates that heals?

All this feat does is turn your healers kits when used to stabilize into goodberry-like objects. The feat itself isn't healing in that circumstance. However, the feat can heal when you take the action it grants that explicitly heals a creature.

Apparently it's the spell healing, according to what I understand to be the consensus about the interaction between Goodberry and Disciple of Life.

 

[Zardnaar]

It's good; no argument there. And yet I haven't seen anybody take it at 1st level as a variant human. YMMV, obviously.

Most people don't know how good it is.

My last character took it celestial Warlock. Kind of an encouragement to the party to short rest.

DM was new, I think he didn't like it.

 

[Esker]

Most people don't know how good it is.

My last character took it celestial Warlock. Kind of an encouragement to the party to short rest.

DM was new, I think he didn't like it.

That's genius.

 

[FrogReaver]

Apparently it's the spell healing, according to what I understand to be the consensus about the interaction between Goodberry and Disciple of Life.

Consensus between those was done as a compromise so I wouldn't read to much into that interaction.

Long ago there was an argument that goodberry and disciple of life would heal 1 + Wis Mod hp per good berry. There was another camp that said this is obviously wrong and said it shouldn't affect it. Somewhere out of all that there was a compromise that doesn't abide by any interpretation of RAW such that you get a few more berrys with disciple of life.

 

[Esker]

Consensus between those was done as a compromise so I wouldn't read to much into that interaction.

Long ago there was an argument that goodberry and disciple of life would heal 1 + Wis Mod hp per good berry. There was another camp that said this is obviously wrong and said it shouldn't affect it. Somewhere out of all that there was a compromise that doesn't abide by any interpretation of RAW such that you get a few more berrys with disciple of life.

I wasn't aware of that compromise. I've been operating under the assumption that each berry gets the bonus.