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<blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 7666809" data-attributes="member: 58401">All of you sorta hit on the fact that this is a verisimilitude-breaker for me, which is definitely true. For me, &quot;only ranger poultices work&quot; is a bridge too far. &nbsp;@'Sir Brennen' I had forgotten all about healer's kits! In practice I think those fit the bill, but they still have problems. Healing systems are tricky.@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=58197" target="_blank">Dausuul</a> used the example of why some classes get sneak attack and others don't; that never concerned me because HP (and, by extension, damage) is an abstraction, and because backstab/sneak attack is a sacred cow. Sorcerers and wizards are magical and get magic from different places, so sure, why not have different powers? But with poultices, I imagine someone going into the woods and picking herbs and other junk for a poultice, and I just can't square that with other characters in the woods their whole lives, learning nature stuff, but never how to roll two herbs together.&nbsp;@<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=1288" target="_blank">Mouseferatu</a> I lol'd out loud out loud at your cover band joke. Rangers with Band-Aids--I'll play the cowbell, can you do vocals?Good call. I think that's a more versatile approach anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorhook, post: 7666809, member: 58401"] All of you sorta hit on the fact that this is a verisimilitude-breaker for me, which is definitely true. For me, "only ranger poultices work" is a bridge too far. @[I][B][U]'Sir[/U][/B][/I] Brennen' I had forgotten all about healer's kits! In practice I think those fit the bill, but they still have problems. Healing systems are tricky. @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=58197"]Dausuul[/URL][/U][/B][/I] used the example of why some classes get sneak attack and others don't; that never concerned me because HP (and, by extension, damage) is an abstraction, and because backstab/sneak attack is a sacred cow. Sorcerers and wizards are magical and get magic from different places, so sure, why not have different powers? But with poultices, I imagine someone going into the woods and picking herbs and other junk for a poultice, and I just can't square that with other characters in the woods their whole lives, learning nature stuff, but never how to roll two herbs together. @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=1288"]Mouseferatu[/URL][/U][/B][/I] I lol'd out loud out loud at your cover band joke. Rangers with Band-Aids--I'll play the cowbell, can you do vocals? Good call. I think that's a more versatile approach anyway. [/QUOTE]

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