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<blockquote data-quote="Hobbit4Hire$" data-source="post: 9280986" data-attributes="member: 7044635">Right.When it comes to the role of healer, I have always found the &quot;White Mage&quot; class from Final Fantasy to just make more sense internally speaking. If &quot;magic&quot; is just another branch of physics or science, and the &quot;magic-user&quot; is just an applied scientist or engineer, then having someone specialize in &quot;healing magic&quot; seems logical to me.The one thing that I think the cleric class adds to any campaign setting is that the cleric is intrinsically tied to notions of religion and the divine. The cleric is explicitly supposed to be an emissary for some greater power. That was why I came up with my two replacement classes.The &quot;chaplain&quot; covers an actual mercenary/adventurer that has genuine faith and adherence to a school of thought that is relevant to his vocation.The &quot;proxy&quot; prestige class is meant to represent the more empirically verifiable &quot;little-g-gods&quot; found in typical fantasy and comic-books, as well as proxy-agents of some state actor found in contemporary proxy wars.The &quot;thaumaturge&quot; or &quot;factotum&quot; class mentioned earlier fulfills the niche that Van Helsing occupies, the expert on Esoterica that can provide the unique protections or vulnerabilities against enemies. Nix, Dayne Edward. 2021. Moral Injury and a First World War Chaplain: The Life of G.A. Studdert Kennedy. Lanhamn, MD: The Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hobbit4Hire$, post: 9280986, member: 7044635"] Right. When it comes to the role of healer, I have always found the "White Mage" class from [I]Final Fantasy[/I] to just make more sense internally speaking. If "magic" is just another branch of physics or science, and the "magic-user" is just an applied scientist or engineer, then having someone specialize in "healing magic" seems logical to me. The one thing that I think the cleric class adds to any campaign setting is that the cleric is intrinsically tied to notions of religion and the divine. The cleric is explicitly supposed to be an emissary for some greater power. That was why I came up with my two replacement classes. The "chaplain" covers an actual mercenary/adventurer that has genuine faith and adherence to a school of thought that is relevant to his vocation. The "proxy" prestige class is meant to represent the more empirically verifiable "little-g-gods" found in typical fantasy and comic-books, as well as proxy-agents of some state actor found in contemporary proxy wars. The "thaumaturge" or "factotum" class mentioned earlier fulfills the niche that Van Helsing occupies, the expert on Esoterica that can provide the unique protections or vulnerabilities against enemies. Nix, Dayne Edward. 2021. Moral Injury and a First World War Chaplain: The Life of G.A. Studdert Kennedy. Lanhamn, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. [/QUOTE]

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