Healing belt from MIC

[akbearfoot]

If your DM banned the book, then approach it a different way....



Say to him...How much to create a belt with 3 charges per day...



The MIC is a great book IMO, even if a lot of the content isn't necessarily useful. At the very least, it's a treasure trove of neat ideas for customized items.

 

[Klaus]

I don't need to worry as the DM has just band the whole Magic Item Compendium after seeing items like that in it. What a waste of money that book turned out to be.

Wow, do I disagree with your DM.

The MIC added dozens of non-standard options for lower-level items. Here's the equipment list I assembled for an Eberron human rogue with an Indiana Jones penchant, using the rules from MIC and including items from Dungeonscape:

+1 easy travel studded leather armor, masterwork shortsword, light crossbow, masterwork thieves’ tools, Heward’s Handy Haversack, dust of dryness, healing belt, bracers of quick strike, replenishing skin, everlating rations, acid (2), acid neutralizer (1), antitoxin (3), collapsible pole, silk rope (100 ft.), hammer, 5 iron spikes, crowbar, superior hacksaw, climber’s kit, holy water (2), rubbing kit, twine (50 ft.), torch (5), lantern, oil (8), sunrod (2), 50 gp.

 

[nittanytbone]

I think its fine. For 750 GP, you could have a Wand of CLW or Lesser Vigor or Faith Healing. The wand of Lesser Vigor heals 11 HP * 50 charges = 550 HP.

To heal that many HP with your healing belt, you have to own it for at least 20 days, and you have to maximize the healing every day. Also, once the belt is out for the day, its out, unlike a wand which can go all day long until its out of charges. The belt doesn't scale nicely with level -- at mid to higher levels, 4d8-6d8 of healing just doesn't cut it anymore.

Considering that there are plenty of ways to get tons of near-infinite healing (wands, dragon shaman auras, Touch of Healing reserve feat, Combat Focus feat tree, etc) I have no problem with it.

Everyone in my current group has one and it just freed up the cleric to not be the heal-beeyotch; now that the cleric is KIA it freed them up to not even have a cleric!

 

[Darklone]

I think it's ok since all my players use the slotless armor special ability of healing... with autocasting itself when you reach negative hitpoints. More bang for your buck.

And if you allow the Healing Reserve Feat from Comp Champion, that Healing belt isn't very interesting anymore.

 

[awayfarer]

This just came up with a new player. I bumped the price to 1080 gp. He still took it and I still think it's a bargain.

 

[Mistwell]

My general impression of MIC in general is that it has way too many items that are priced too cheaply. I think this was a deliberate attempt to give more choice at lower levels than the standard fare, but these days I'm always careful about allowing anything from MIC due to the cheap prices.

Pinotage

I think the overwhelming majority of items are fine as written and as priced, EXCEPT that they should have that 24-hours to work clause. The problem comes from higher level groups buying more than one charges-per-day items and just tosses them in their backpack and pulls out another one as soon as the charges are spent. That I think defeats the intent behind these items, and causes the trouble.

 

[Vahktang]

Or you could rule that since fighters, et al, cannot 'channel positive energy' they cannot use the belt.
Then it takes a Turning to use it.
So no bards, druids or even evil clerics can use it.

QED.

 

[AnonymousOne]

Or you could rule that since fighters, et al, cannot 'channel positive energy' they cannot use the belt.
Then it takes a Turning to use it.
So no bards, druids or even evil clerics can use it.

QED.

How about no.

 

[Mistwell]

Or you could rule that since fighters, et al, cannot 'channel positive energy' they cannot use the belt.
Then it takes a Turning to use it.
So no bards, druids or even evil clerics can use it.

QED.

Just ban it from your game if you're going to nerf it so much that it couldn't possibly be worth it.

 

[Zurai]

Or you could rule that since fighters, et al, cannot 'channel positive energy' they cannot use the belt.
Then it takes a Turning to use it.
So no bards, druids or even evil clerics can use it.

QED.

No.

And you're misusing QED.