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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1238631" data-attributes="member: 10201">Well, since it was a while until eth Complete Priest's Handbook came out, and the only example we had to go on was the druid, most of our specialty priests were about as divergent--i honestly don't remember what we did for XP table. Healing = important? yes.  PCs with innate healing ability are necessary?  Maybe.  Innate healing ability has to be based on spells? No.  Innate healing ability should be restricted to divine casters? I dunno. And i've been in plenty of parties that relied on healing potions instead of spells, and did just fine.I don't see why it's any more necessary to the game to have a cleric that can always turn undead or heal, than it is to have a wizard who can lob artillery, or a rogue who's a trapmaster.  Those are useful subsets of their abilities, not the sum total of them.  Now, i agree that balancing priests in AD&D2 was trickier than clerics in D&D3E, but that doesn't mean that the end result, when done well, wasn't better. And, personally, one of my complaints with clerics/priests has always been that they *already* are pretty much just another spellcaster--that they should be less like wizards, not more.Oh, undoubtedly--it becomes much harder to maintain, or even determine, balance when you start radically shifting the abilities aronud.  And party power changes radically if you don't have a healer in the group.  Doesn't mean that (1) it's a worthwhile goal or (2) there aren't other ways to get there.</blockquote>

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