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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 2954494" data-attributes="member: 35788">I have been wondering something of late as I read this thread.  I personally think the "healing Cleric" is likely a crutch that players get accustomed to.  You know, once you have access to free healing, you are addicted or something.Now, I admit that to be an overstatement.  But I think there is anhonest truth in there.  I prefer D&D played best as a team effort and a group effort.  Nothing I hate at the gaming table more than a lone ranger.  But when people design characters I think sometimes they design them with the thought in mind that some poor schmuck is going to play a cleric to heal them.  I never assume that I'll have access to free healing unless I'm playing a cleric.  When I design a character I estimate how this person will receive healing.  Will this character need to pay for it?  Use potions?  Is getting the UMD skill an option?  Will the character have to hire an NPC healer?  Perhaps try and earn the trust of a healer and bring them on as a cohort through the leadership skill?  Etc ...  But the one thing I never assume is that they'll have free healing as an option.</blockquote>