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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2450428" data-attributes="member: 8158">The initial concept is that of an empath. The basic iidea I was running with is that after healing a certain amount of damage, the empath begins to take nonlethal damage and maybe becomes fatigued (it's painful to take all those wounds upon oneself). The empath has other abilites available as well, mostly the ability to detect things and affect emotions. Reminiscent of the healer from the Minis handbook (but with a better design) with a hint of Arcana Evolved's akashic.The alignment would be "any nonevil". I suppose an empath could go bad, dealing in negative emotional energy, but that seems more like the equivalent of an empath blackguard or ur-priest. On the other hand, I don't see all empaths being pollyanas; the concept of a healer having a detached, clinical outlook, seems as solid as the warm-hearted caregiver. Great ideas, btw. I like the conversion of lethal to nonletha damage, essentially working witht the "reserve hit point" model provided in Unearthed Arcana.</blockquote>