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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6871168" data-attributes="member: 12731">I notice these few last replies all talk about the cleric as a healer. But our Tempest Cleric is not concerned about healing. He wants to bash things over the head, even if he commonly realizes his spells are better tools for the job.Sure, he has Healing Word prepared, but only as an emergency life saver, not as a spell to make fallen allies stand back on their feet. Basically a Spare the Dying but without its crippling Touch range. 5th edition is made with the assumption the hit points you have are enough for even a deadly encounter; the need for in-combat healing is basically a 3E-ism we're slowly unlearning. Healing is to make sure you don't have to walk into a combat at anything less than full hit points. Since hit points is the most important indicator of power and level, entering a fight at only 50 hp rather than 70 hp, say, is to enter that fight (in)voluntarily as a 6th level character instead of the 8th level character you could be. That is: you'll do it if you absolutely have to, but generally D&D never makes you do stuff now that can't wait an hour.But the argument "we don't have a Cleric because there's enough healing in the game" should be met with "try playing a Cleric that doesn't heal before you say that again" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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