Club of Healing

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well, my players have done it now ...

The campaign has split into two groups, one on the run from the law, the other trying to save the barony from an imminent attack by as yet undefined badness (naturally). The split, though, didn't happen evenly, and the fugitives have a fighter, a bard and two wizards. And, yes, no healers. (The bard is apparently going to jump out of the class before he can even cast Cure Light Wounds.)

Well, one of the players in the other branch of this campaign mentioned a long-ago game where they found a club that cast Cure Light Wounds on anyone hit with it. The trick, of course, was to smack your compatriots and hope that the spell did more healing than the club did damage.

Obviously, I don't want this to be too exploitable -- no having everyone going around fully healed up at all times -- but this is too funny not to try and implement.

So, I'm asking you, ENWorld, how would you stat this up? There has to be some sort of limit to how often it can be cast, and it has to do damage in addition to healing.

Any suggestions?

That is too damn funny. I'm using that next campaign.

A Magic Club that does 1d6 damage and 1d8 healing. Cannot be used to inflict subdual damage due to it's enchantment. This will get a lot of mileage in my game with the guys I DM for.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What is to stop me hitting with the club to do subdual damage and still getting the benefit of Cure Light Wounds healing lethal damage?

It's specifically prohibited.

Cudgel of Mixed Blessings

An infamous magical club created by a nameless cleric of Charlathan.

The cudgel is made of dark wood nearly black with age, shaped like the god/goddess, with the female aspect and male aspect of Charlathan standing back-to-back. This magical club does not shed light.
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The Cudgel of Mixed Blessings first appeared in the Fables of Burdock in a footnote concerning the Battle of Fublio Valley fought more than 1,000 years ago in the Dragonsbirth Mountains by humans, gnomes and kobolds.

Although the club was originally carried into battle by the human side of the war (the stillborn would-be nation of Quendor), it passed from humans to kobolds to gnomes and back several times, before being stolen by a band of dwarf thieves.

It reappeared a century later far to the east, in the lands of the Eastern Hordes, where it was taken during a raid on barbarian bandits, and the cudgel returned to the clergy of Charlathan.

During an inquisition by the faithful of Castain, the club was seized from a temple of Charlathan and placed in a church storehouse in Tarsis. Following the collapse of Castain's church and the rise of Lothianism, the Cudgel of Mixed Blessings was one of a number of items looted from the storehouse. Its current whereabouts are unknown.
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The Cudgel of Mixed Blessings is a +1 darkwood club. On a hit, it does 1d6+1 damage and heals the target of 1d8 points of damage, similarly to cure light wounds. On a critical hit, the healing is not increased, simply the damage. The magic of the cudgel prevents it from being used to deal non-lethal damage and any bonuses or penalty to the damage done is also applied to the healing. The healing effect does not translate into additional damage done to undead creatures vulnerable to positive energy, although they do not benefit from its normal healing effect, either.

Faint conjuration; CL 6th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, cure light wounds, creator must be chaotic; Price 8,330 gold pieces; Cost 4,165 gold pieces + 334 XP

 

[icedrake]

I'm sure that a healing club would be pretty pretty funny, but the bard could just use wands of healing. The class has it as a class skill, but I'm pretty sure, so long as the spell's on your list of spells (overall list, not just known to the character), they can cast the spell from the wand.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Not to minimize the reality of domestic violence, but there is such a thing as slapstick. Heck, the Three Stooges' heirs are very happy for it.

Not to mention that there is a voluntary side to the healing club thing, as opposed to domestic violence.