Looking for some evil non-cleric healer

[Runestar]

Fast healing is worthless within an encounter itself, IMO, unless you can crank it up high enough.

Another way could be to give your dragons some limited form of self-healing. For example, the iron heart endurance maneuver lets you heal lvx2 hp (though I am still not entirely sure what the lv refers to - I assume it is IL). Vital recovery gives it some hp back when it refreshes its maneuvers (so you may need to tack on a lv of warblade). Stone power grants temp hp, though to use it over power attack seems a little suspect. I would recommend shield other (since red dragons can cast cleric spells), but I expect that it will be dispelled the first chance the PCs get.

Fortunate fate can be nasty if your dragons can access it (contigent heal on death? Sign me up ).

 

[Animal]

i'm thinking of a twisted champion of some chaotic deity. he is a devoted warrior with a few divine powers bestowed upon him by his deity - some kind of a black knight or witch-king. build is not optimized but it seems easy to run and full of flavour.
Paladin of slaughter 8/ Warlock 1/ Eldritch Disciple 8
max out Charisma, take extra turning (twice maybe), worship a CN deity and take Healing blast and Wild frenzy as your divine patron gifts. you get 4th level paladin spells, a special mount, a 5d8 healing blast useable a dozen times a day (using blast shapes would make it crazy good but i'm not sure if it's legal) and still retain a decent combat ability. you do lose 3 BAB but Wild frenzy, divine favour and bull strength will more than make up for this.

to fit better in the encounter he can have a draconic mount and take Fell flight invocation. that would open some possibilities of tactical 3 dimension combat - he could change mounts right in the air and always stay away from PCs. maybe male him a spellscale.

 

[milo]

I thought a creature could willingly lower it's SR to accept a spell. I have never looked as to whether that was a full round or just for that spell though. I don't think that there is anything that can really match the healing capability of a cleric or favored soul. What spells would it take for something to survive inside the dragon's stomach though? Acid res, fire res, and DR of some type for crushing damage.
A fire mephit cleric who gets swallowed by the dragon as the pc's approach would be nasty. Just hang out in the belly of the dragon with deathwatch on and cast cure spells on him.

 

[Kylas]

Well I'm not sure if this will destroy the style of the encounter but you didn't specify whether or not you wanted positive energy or negative energy healing.

You could have a dread necromancer from Heroes of Horror. You'd have to have an undead dragon but charnel touch (with spectral hand spell) and negative energy burst would heal it at range, 1d8+1/2 lvl and 1d4 per level respectively. Take tomb tainted soul feat and a few other animated dead bolstering feats from Libris Mortis, and you have a formidable animated dragon skeleton that can be healed. Also dread necromancer is a spontaneous caster with a fixed spell list which includes the inflict spells and the harm spells along with a few other nice ones.

Also pale master is a nice mix with dread necromancer.

Technically this is healing from a evil non cleric.

 

[Shin Okada]

Thank you for a lot of ideas.

>Animal

Unearthed Arcane is banned in my play group. So Paladin of Slaughter is not an option. Cleric/Warlock/Eldritch Disciple can be an interesting option but... that is Eldritch Blast and must bypass SR. As multi-classing lowers her caster level as a Warlock, I am afraid that she has hard time overcoming fellow dragon's SR (27). And 5d8 healing blast seems not so good at this level. That is 22.5 hp in average. Even if it is empowered and maximized, that is only 70 hp or so. less than half of the amount one Heal spell can cure (150 hp at this level).

>milo

The dragon can lower SR until his next turn. But unfortunately, it takes a standard action to do so. So unless they retreat once, that is not a viable tactics.

>Kylas

Unfortunately, that encounter will be fought in POSITIVE ENERGY PLANE!

 

[taliesin15]

An Adept or variation between that and a Cleric is your best bet (looks like you're heading that way anyhow).

Course one idea is to simply change some of the assumptions of the Cleric--IMC, all religions are pantheistic, so there's no churches dedicated to one god or clerics worshipping one deity, and the culture of Clerics is more Shamanistic and dominated by women--of the type that Christians would later refer to as witches, though on the whole benign healers and ritual leaders of small communities

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Another means to overcome the allies' SR: Arcane Mastery feat from C.Arcane. Can always take 10 on CL checks, which alone might be enough. If not, can always add on spell penetration and even greater SP. Having things like the Healing Domain's +1 CL on healing spells or the ring of mystic healing's (MIC) benefits can further help.

 

[Shin Okada]

Another means to overcome the allies' SR: Arcane Mastery feat from C.Arcane. Can always take 10 on CL checks, which alone might be enough.

Ah! That is a good idea. So with CL 17+ the healer can bypass SR27 automatically. Then Kobold Adept 18 (CR 15) can be a good option.

Edit: I have checked the CA and it says "Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells or use spell-like abilities." So no adept nor other divine healers. Hmm...

 

[Runestar]

Adept...?!? Surely you can find a better alternative at cr15...even if it is an ur-priest...

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Edit: I have checked the CA and it says "Prerequisite: Ability to cast arcane spells or use spell-like abilities." So no adept nor other divine healers. Hmm...

Really?! I didn't know that!

That seems like a really stupidly trivial restriction. If it were my game I'd let any caster take that feat (applying both to NPCs and PCs), but I guess in the middle of a campaign it might not seem right to change the rules to your benefit.

There is also (sorry, another cleric option) Divine Spell Power from C.Divine to use a turn undead usage for as much as +4 CL. I still think you should just amend the arcane mastery feat because it would make the issue so much easier to deal with. Man! *goes off to add yet another houserule to own campaign before I find a situation where it's actually needed*