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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5084217" data-attributes="member: 3424">Just to continue the healer's mercy sidetrack for a little longer:Healer's mercy is one of those powers which gets better the worse the state the PCs are in. It is a tide-turning power which increases the PCs' ability to recover from setbacks and swing the advantage back to them. The power is balanced on the assumption that the full scale of its potential effect will only rarely be utilized. Hence, this power is more balanced in a campaign which features more scripted encounters because the DM is in more control of when the power's full effect will be realized. In such campaigns, it can even act as a &quot;safety net&quot; for the times that the DM misjudges the encounter difficulty, or the players have a run of bad luck.This power would be less balanced in a &quot;sandbox&quot;-style campaign where the players are more in control of the encounters they engage in because they can deliberately choose to take on tougher encounters and earn greater rewards.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 5084217, member: 3424"] Just to continue the [I]healer's mercy[/I] sidetrack for a little longer: [I]Healer's mercy[/I] is one of those powers which gets better the worse the state the PCs are in. It is a tide-turning power which increases the PCs' ability to recover from setbacks and swing the advantage back to them. The power is balanced on the assumption that the full scale of its potential effect will only rarely be utilized. Hence, this power is more balanced in a campaign which features more scripted encounters because the DM is in more control of when the power's full effect will be realized. In such campaigns, it can even act as a "safety net" for the times that the DM misjudges the encounter difficulty, or the players have a run of bad luck. This power would be less balanced in a "sandbox"-style campaign where the players are more in control of the encounters they engage in because they can deliberately choose to take on tougher encounters and earn greater rewards. [/QUOTE]

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