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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nergal Pendragon" data-source="post: 6508628" data-attributes="member: 6777649">Take a look at the two superheroes who I did cite as being defensive. Superman has no particular ability to really defend; his primary defense is that he's effectively indestructible without one certain material involved. And... that's it. The rest of his powers are focused on offense and combat. Yet he uses that and his offensive powers defensively. Spiderman is the same way; almost nothing defensive, yet he still acts as a defensive character.You're not understanding it because you're missing the key aspect of it: The character only has that capacity if the DM says they can use the skill that way. What Medicine actually does isn't decided by game mechanics; it's decided by DM Fiat. It is only mechanical in your mind because you are reading the skill description literally when the skill description is, by RAW, not literal.The Medicine skill in 5E encompasses whatever the DM says it encompasses. 4E, when it came to skills that acted like that, were simply not there and up to the players to pretend they were. The capacity of Medicine to heal wounds or restore injuries is not a mechanical capacity in that there's no actual mechanics that say what a Medicine skill fully encompasses. And, technically, it's not even needed; a character without the skill can still do a Wisdom check to manage the same thing, just that they don't get the proficiency boost or advantage on the roll.As for covering miracles: That's a mixture of roleplaying and the mechanics of advantage. If they have proficiency in the Medicine skill and the DM is allowing them to use it for treating wounds, thanks to Advantage they could easily be pulling off a few healing miracles without managing to have divine power. Since they have two chances each turn of hitting a 20, they can continuously choose the better one and manage a higher rate of 20s than they can without advantage. But, again, only if the DM allows them to use the Medicine skill that way in the first place.</blockquote>

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