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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6806926" data-attributes="member: 6790260">1. Most people will tell you not to bother with in-combat healing. That doesn't jive with my experience, but I'm definitely in the minority on this. So...it may not matter what spell is best. However, at least for the first few levels, Healing Word is a godsend because it doesn't eat up your action to cast it, meaning you can do that and some other thing (like attack).2. Absolutely. Song of Rest is great for non-combat healing (if you can spend just 1 HD per short rest, it's a huge benefit), and Bards can steal the best healing spells from other classes' lists. You won't have the "just enough to get you back on your feet" aspect of the Paladin, nor the HP-specific benefits of the Cleric, but that's the price paid for having other support features instead (which, hopefully, mean your party takes less damage in the first place...not that I've seen that work in practice).3. I played one for a little while. It was alright, though my group was really bad at making use of my Bardic Inspiration dice (which...really sucks as a low-level Bard). You'll feel the reduced spell access, if you previously played a Cleric, but judicious selection can ameliorate that.A. I have no idea. We used point-buy. It feels like most people roll their stats, based on the forum posts I read, but that could be bias talking. You'll just have to ask your DM, that sort of thing should be an up-front fact.Also, welcome to the forum, R.B. Have some XP!</blockquote>

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