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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8788760" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>I feel like <em>Songs of Restoration</em> is NOT a buff, but rather a major debuff. </p><p></p><p>They replaced our ability to short rest heal with a list of locked-in healing spells to get around the fact that they locked-off a bunch of traditional Bard spells. They tried to counter the lack of healing by allowing Bardic Inspiration to be used to heal, but this gets into the Monk and Sorcerer resource problem: the class is far too demanding on a very limited resource that has only been made more limited per day in the same document. </p><p></p><p>The fact that College of Lore Bards want to spend their Inspiration dice on something OTHER than healing or boosting their friends rolls is more evidence of that. And the healing is really a pittance, while Songs of Rest was a feature that really encouraged parties with Bards to take as many Short Rests as possible each day (and thus avoid the 5MWD trap). </p><p></p><p>This feels like they WANT us to have 5MWDs. </p><p></p><p>Also, Rangers got healing spells moved to Abjuration (something I've advocated for for decades; most other fantasy fictions combine barrier buffs and patronuses etc with healing spells into a single Restoration or Abjuration school). Yet because the Bard HAS to use the Arcane list because of 3e & 4e, it's not allowed to get them without a special class feature, which has to take the place of something. And if they want any other healing or classic Bard spells still not on the list? Sorry, going to have to wait until Magical Secrets in Tier 3…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8788760, member: 6803643"] I feel like [I]Songs of Restoration[/I] is NOT a buff, but rather a major debuff. They replaced our ability to short rest heal with a list of locked-in healing spells to get around the fact that they locked-off a bunch of traditional Bard spells. They tried to counter the lack of healing by allowing Bardic Inspiration to be used to heal, but this gets into the Monk and Sorcerer resource problem: the class is far too demanding on a very limited resource that has only been made more limited per day in the same document. The fact that College of Lore Bards want to spend their Inspiration dice on something OTHER than healing or boosting their friends rolls is more evidence of that. And the healing is really a pittance, while Songs of Rest was a feature that really encouraged parties with Bards to take as many Short Rests as possible each day (and thus avoid the 5MWD trap). This feels like they WANT us to have 5MWDs. Also, Rangers got healing spells moved to Abjuration (something I've advocated for for decades; most other fantasy fictions combine barrier buffs and patronuses etc with healing spells into a single Restoration or Abjuration school). Yet because the Bard HAS to use the Arcane list because of 3e & 4e, it's not allowed to get them without a special class feature, which has to take the place of something. And if they want any other healing or classic Bard spells still not on the list? Sorry, going to have to wait until Magical Secrets in Tier 3… [/QUOTE]
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