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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2992746" data-attributes="member: 19675"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />The Bible contains examples, not only of the powers of the saints & prophets, but others as well- the 1Ed spell Sticks to Snakes is based on a biblical passage in which Moses dueled the Pharoah's priests, both using that "spell."Priests and the "divinely touched" revealing predictions of the future-accurate ones- are featured in many mythologies.  If that doesn't sound like "spellcasting" from the divination school, I don't know what does.Voudoun and religions of African origins often tell of priests who curse, or lift curses, who heal or harm, with but a few gestures.  Again, spellcasting.In fiction, you'll see healing priests in books by Joel Rosenberg, Tanith Lee, and others.All that aside- be prepared, regardless of your campaign's particular solution, with the "healing" problem.  I'm in a campaign right now that, while clerics are not omitted, we don't have a powerful one in our party (he only has CLW so far), and healing magics of the potion/scroll variety are rare.  My Sorc/Ftr only avoided permanent death by semi-divine intervention (DM fiat- I don't think he wanted me to make a new PC).  Some other ideas:1) One of my favorite all time solutions to the lack of healing magic is the DarkSun one- ignore it.  Have your players design PC trees, and let the chips fall where they may.2) Have healing base on skills- IOW, non-magical or pseudo-magical apothecarial/herbalist based healing.3) Make Lay on Hands (the Paladin power) into a Feat.  If you want, make it a Metamagic Feat- burn a spell to heal 1d4HP/spell level burned.</blockquote>

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