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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7666762" data-attributes="member: 58197">&quot;Unaided calculation&quot; is the Medicine skill. Poultices are the abacus. Healing spells are the calculator.What you're objecting to is inherent in the class system. You could raise the same objection to any class ability. How come barbarians, who spend just as much time in combat as fighters, don't have Second Wind? How come rangers, who spend just as much time ambushing enemies as rogues, don't have Sneak Attack? How come wizards, who spend just as much time manipulating magic as sorcerers, don't have metamagic?The answer is that each class is a package of skills and talents, chosen to represent a particular &quot;career path&quot; for an adventurer. This list of career paths is not, and was never meant to be, comprehensive. A druid could learn to make poultices, but the typical druid doesn't, because healing spells are better. If you want to be the oddball druid who does know how to make poultices, you have two options:1. Multiclass ranger for a couple levels.2. Work with your DM to create a homebrew druid variant that gets poultices.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7666762, member: 58197"] "Unaided calculation" is the Medicine skill. Poultices are the abacus. Healing spells are the calculator. What you're objecting to is inherent in the class system. You could raise the same objection to any class ability. How come barbarians, who spend just as much time in combat as fighters, don't have Second Wind? How come rangers, who spend just as much time ambushing enemies as rogues, don't have Sneak Attack? How come wizards, who spend just as much time manipulating magic as sorcerers, don't have metamagic? The answer is that each class is a package of skills and talents, chosen to represent a particular "career path" for an adventurer. This list of career paths is not, and was never meant to be, comprehensive. A druid [I]could[/I] learn to make poultices, but the typical druid doesn't, because healing spells are better. If you want to be the oddball druid who does know how to make poultices, you have two options: 1. Multiclass ranger for a couple levels. 2. Work with your DM to create a homebrew druid variant that gets poultices. [/QUOTE]

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