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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9658732" data-attributes="member: 6877472">If characters go down in combat, Healing Word is the most efficient way to get them back up without minimal loss to action economy.  If there's no time to take an hour off to recover from a fight, your healing options are pretty limited- potions at 50 gp a pop*, healing magic, or someone with the Healer Feat burning through their limited-use Healer's Kits  and only able to heal 1 target per short rest.  *Of course, if the DM doesn't mind you buying potions, what else are you going to do with your money, lol.The games I've played in have been pretty reliant on some kind of spellcaster support for healing, but a carefully built non-caster party might not run into problems. Where they most likely will run into problems is when they encounter those problems only magic can solve.  Even if the party's non-casters can continue to function when casters are out of spell slots, why would they?Team game, right?  You need the whole party.  What are you going to do, have half the party adventure alone against encounters designed for the whole party?  Or insist on dragging around characters with little usefulness beyond spamming cantrips?If the party can rest, why wouldn't they?  Emphasis on can here- if they have time crunches or any reason to not rest, that's a different story.  I'm talking about, "Hey, we're in town, we just tangled with some wererats in the sewers and got beat up, the casters feel they need spells to continue. Why not go back to the inn and get some zzzz's?"</blockquote>

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