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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9751797" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I think it was just a consequence of the game's design.  Scenario 1: your 7th level Fighter with 50 hit points goes on an adventure, after a couple fights, he's looking at hoping he doesn't run into a random encounter so he can make it back to town and relax in the Inn for a couple of weeks.Scenario 2: his buddy the 6th level Cleric is like "hey, uh, as long as I can take a nap, I could fill up all my 1st-level spell slots with Cure Light Wounds and probably get you back to full power in like, two days."Individually, Cure Spells are horrible, but give the Cleric a day of downtime, and the results are literally game changing.  So naturally once people figured that out, they naturally wanted someone to keep their hit points topped off, slash recovery times, and save people who are bleeding out from having to make new characters.  This massively sped up the adventuring process and reduced the margin for error.  Once you've experienced that, do you really want your Cleric puttering around with casting Bless for a crummy +1 bonus or trying to kill an Orc with Inflict Light Wounds?  Of course, few people want to play a hit point battery.  What I didn't figure out until much later, was that this pressure doesn't need to be put on one player.  A Cleric multiclass isn't really a big deal. Gnomes can be Cleric/Thieves, Half-Elves can be Cleric/M-U's.  You could have a whole party where everyone has healing magic and tear through adventures at lightning speed, all at the cost of maybe being down a level from a single-classed character.</blockquote>

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