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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7377225">The insistence upon actual healing, as opposed to damage prevention or bonus HP, strikes me as a sign of zealotry.If the concern is just that in order to "replace the cleric" (which currently is not even remotely mandatory) with "non-magical healing" then any ability which alleviates damage to allies, including preventing it in the first place, or absorbing it, should qualify.Sure, you can't always prevent damage; sometimes you need to heal.  That's why lots of other classes (Bard, Druid, Paladin, even Hunter) have secondary healing abilities.  And healing potions.  Oh, wait...you want a 100% magic-less game? And that game must be D&D 5e?  That in itself strikes me as a kind of zealotry, but that aside, good thing the Short Rest/HD mechanic is so (ridiculously?) generous.  Plus Healing Kits.  Plus Healer feat.5e just simply does not require that one member of the party be a full healer.So it's hard to not interpret the absolute intransigence on this issue as...something.  That something might range from simply "I want a 5e Warlord to be exactly like my favorite class from earlier editions" to "I have a bigger axe to grind and since we can't fight over the thermostat I choose this as my surrogate for voicing discontent."</blockquote>