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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 7995651" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>"Or is it literally that everyone gets to heal up to full with a little rest (an hour or so) and the application of a little skill?"</p><p>tl;dr: yes</p><p></p><p>"magic-less, skill-based option": Treat Wounds</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://2e.aonprd.com/Actions.aspx?ID=57[/URL]</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>Basically, a character (any character) focusing on their Medicine skill (and related skill feats) can heal a patient a number of damage every ten minutes restoring that character to full health in maybe 20 or 40 or 80 minutes depending (to grossly oversimplify the details).</p><p></p><p>PF2 was never about attrition* - its official APs clearly assume PCs are at/near full health when designing encounters. If nobody has Medicine you better have a Cleric or Paladin in your party... (If you create your own adventures, you can easily encourage heroes to keep moving forward even at less than 100% strength, you just have to drastically lower your encounter difficulty level so players don't feel it is suicide to keep adventuring at less than full hp and abilities)</p><p></p><p>*) you still attrite, of course. Not only does your Wizard or Cleric run out of spells, and everyone runs out of "daily" powers in general, but there's poison and drained and doomed and god know's what that "cling" to your character like how barnacles foul a ship's hull. But you can't naively populate a dungeon and just assume "it will take them three days to clear". A party with few or no spellcasters can just energy bunny their way through the complex with maybe 15-30 minutes downtime between encounters on average, clearing a level's worth of encounters (a dozen) in a couple of hours, not days. If they get bogged down, they might want to take a few days "off" to scrape off conditions half-way through, but you can't rely on that (at least not on lower levels).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 7995651, member: 12731"] "Or is it literally that everyone gets to heal up to full with a little rest (an hour or so) and the application of a little skill?" tl;dr: yes "magic-less, skill-based option": Treat Wounds [URL unfurl="true"]https://2e.aonprd.com/Actions.aspx?ID=57[/URL] --- Basically, a character (any character) focusing on their Medicine skill (and related skill feats) can heal a patient a number of damage every ten minutes restoring that character to full health in maybe 20 or 40 or 80 minutes depending (to grossly oversimplify the details). PF2 was never about attrition* - its official APs clearly assume PCs are at/near full health when designing encounters. If nobody has Medicine you better have a Cleric or Paladin in your party... (If you create your own adventures, you can easily encourage heroes to keep moving forward even at less than 100% strength, you just have to drastically lower your encounter difficulty level so players don't feel it is suicide to keep adventuring at less than full hp and abilities) *) you still attrite, of course. Not only does your Wizard or Cleric run out of spells, and everyone runs out of "daily" powers in general, but there's poison and drained and doomed and god know's what that "cling" to your character like how barnacles foul a ship's hull. But you can't naively populate a dungeon and just assume "it will take them three days to clear". A party with few or no spellcasters can just energy bunny their way through the complex with maybe 15-30 minutes downtime between encounters on average, clearing a level's worth of encounters (a dozen) in a couple of hours, not days. If they get bogged down, they might want to take a few days "off" to scrape off conditions half-way through, but you can't rely on that (at least not on lower levels). [/QUOTE]
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