D&D 5E Life without a healer

[MerricB]

G'day, folks!

I'm working up a blog article for my site (tentatively called "Life without a healer", like this post!), but I was wondering how many groups out there survive without anyone with healing magic.

My experience is that players don't always realise they need to play differently if there isn't a healer, and then look very confused when they hit 0 hit points and no-one comes to aid them...

(Playing Curse of Strahd without a healer! Yay!)

Cheers!

 

[Ancalagon]

How would a bard qualify on this list?

No D&D group at the moment...

 

[MerricB]

Bard is likely a full caster class - they have Cure Wounds, and they have full spell-slot ability.

 

[TwoSix]

If the only real support character in my group had the Healer and Inspiring Leader feats, would that count as "no healing spells"?

 

[MerricB]

I'd say so. Your healing is extremely limited.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

The best healer in my group is... different every campaign, ranging from no one with healing spells and no healer or inspiring leader feats to a cleric with the healer feat too.

 

[ccs]

As a player:
In our 5e game we don't have a healer. Of any variety. No spells, no healing kit prof, nobody prof with medicine.

As the DM:
The game I'm currently running is comprised of 4 outlander Barbarians. Not a drop of healing amongst them.

 

[TheLoneRanger1979]

Right now (in 5E) we have a dwarven (drunk) life cleric and he does a great job.

However, there was a time in 4E, before we were joined by a cleric when we ran with only me as warlord and a tactical one at that. Fun times..... but then again 4E allowed all the classes to spend heeling surges....

 

[Herobizkit]

I'm playing a Bard in a 5e one-shot later today with a Life Cleric, a Druid and a Paladin. I've come to learn that Paladin, Bard and Druid are the dream-team, especially if themed together.

In a 4e game, battle healing is practically an essential part of the process. Less so with the others editions, IMXP.

 

[Azurewraith]

G'day, folks!

I'm working up a blog article for my site (tentatively called "Life without a healer", like this post!), but I was wondering how many groups out there survive without anyone with healing magic.

My experience is that players don't always realise they need to play differently if there isn't a healer, and then look very confused when they hit 0 hit points and no-one comes to aid them...

(Playing Curse of Strahd without a healer! Yay!)

Cheers!

Well the resident cleric can't attend for 3weeks due to work. Was the first session without him last night the 4 4th level PC's (assassin,champion,bm,wild sorc) got absolutely hammered by 4vine blights and 4needle blights as they left the needle blights unattended picking them off for on average 7x4 28 damage a round, while they let them selves get constricted and dragged around by the vine blights 2 PC's dropped another is down to single digit HP.