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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5967269" data-attributes="member: 3400">Aragorn's healing abilities can easily be spun 3 ways - healing spells, herbalism and mundane healing skills, and divine providence (laying on of hands). The herbalism is most strongly suggested, or would be, if he didn't also chant and call to the afflicted as if casting a ritual (spell).And you're right, none of them are segregated out. Yet there are characters who don't seem to be able to do it while others can - perhaps Aragorn is multiclassed or he's gotten high enough in level as a 1e ranger to be able to do it<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. Elves seem to be able to work magic with lots of the crafts they make. Again, this isn't called out as separate because they don't seem to understand the hobbits' questions about magic as something separate. It's just part of what and who they are. That's one of the reasons a number of different methods in games might model it and picking the &quot;right&quot; one is a question of art and interpretation.See, I would say that because they aren't actually divine, it's silly to call them demigods. In the terms of Deities and Demigods from 1e, they're not gods nor demigods. They're heroes. That covers a lot of ground, by the way from the relatively mundane Arthurian knights to the heroes of the Finnish Kalevala.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 5967269, member: 3400"] Aragorn's healing abilities can easily be spun 3 ways - healing spells, herbalism and mundane healing skills, and divine providence (laying on of hands). The herbalism is most strongly suggested, or would be, if he didn't also chant and call to the afflicted as if casting a ritual (spell). And you're right, none of them are segregated out. Yet there are characters who don't seem to be able to do it while others can - perhaps Aragorn is multiclassed or he's gotten high enough in level as a 1e ranger to be able to do it;). Elves seem to be able to work magic with lots of the crafts they make. Again, this isn't called out as separate because they don't seem to understand the hobbits' questions about magic as something separate. It's just part of what and who they are. That's one of the reasons a number of different methods in games might model it and picking the "right" one is a question of art and interpretation. See, I would say that because they aren't actually divine, it's silly to call them demigods. In the terms of Deities and Demigods from 1e, they're not gods nor demigods. They're [b]heroes[/b]. That covers a lot of ground, by the way from the relatively mundane Arthurian knights to the heroes of the Finnish Kalevala. [/QUOTE]

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