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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4154369" data-attributes="member: 50987">Thanks for the feedback...this is really helpful.  I am always looking for new playtesters.  \m/So far, we have a couple of ways to handle what I'm calling the "Healing Bug."1.  Leave It Alone:   The system works, so long as the party knows and understands that they will have limited access to healing magic, and plans accordingly.  At low levels, the party will have to spend extra money on healing potions.  At mid-levels, clerics and druids will have to craft wands for healing spells (remember, the restriction on Healing magic only applies to SPELLS...a druid can still empty a wand of cure moderate on the same fellow in five minutes if desired.)  At high-levels, staffs of healing and rings of regeneration are good investments.2.  Allow more uses:   Develop a way to allow a healer to cast Healing spells on the same creature more than once per day.  This could probably be done with a feat:Improved Healing [General]You are renowned for your healing powers.Benefit: You may now affect the same creature up to twice per day with the same [Healing] spell.Special: clerics with access to the Healing Domain gain this feat for free as a bonus feat.  This bonus feat replaces the Healing Domain's granted power.This essentially doubles the amount of healing spells available to casters.  It helps low-level healers out a lot, but becomes too good at high levels, when clerics gain access to the heal spell.3.  Skill-based healing: Allow spells with the [Healing] descriptor to be cast through the Heal skill.  In effect, the character uses the Heal skill to perform a ritual that emulates the effect of any [Healing] spell of 4th level or lower.  The DC for this Heal check is 15 + (2 x spell level)), as shown:Cure minor wounds: Heal DC 15Cure light wounds: Heal DC 17Cure moderate wounds: Heal DC 19Cure serious wounds: Heal DC 21Cure critical wounds: Heal DC 23Delay poison: Heal DC 19Lesser restoration: Heal DC 19Neutralize poison: Heal DC 23Remove blindness/deafness: Heal DC 21Remove disease: Heal DC 21Remove paralysis: Heal DC 19Restoration: Heal DC 23Using a Heal check in this manner requires at least 10 minutes per level of the spell being emulated, and cannot be used for spells higher than 4th level.  The character performing the ritual must have at least the same number of hit dice as the caster level required to cast the spell, and must have a Wisdom score of at least 10 + the spell level.That's all I've been able to come up with this week...and I've got to be honest, I think the best solution is also the easiest one.  (Number 1.)I want to avoid making the Reserve Points system from Pathfinder a requirement to this system, however.  Reserve Points are great, and I definitely want people to have the option to use them with my Spells On Demand system without unbalancing their game, but I don't want them to be a hard requirement.  Some people might want to use SoD without RPs.Again, thanks for the feedback!  I'll put a blurb in the next revision about Reserve Points, suggesting that they be used to help parties with a healing problem.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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