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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5424895" data-attributes="member: 4937">YDRID.I'm sufficiently happy with my current tweaks to the SRD that I can honestly say that I've never been happier with any game system I've played.  My players are extremely happy with the game, and have favorably compared it with their prior experiences (those who aren't new) or are begging me to run the game more often (those that are new).   And I'm turning away players from the table because I can't run them all. Packing a cleric is always a good idea in every version of D&D.  But, you could probably get away with not having a cleric by some combination of:a) Packing a character with a high Heal skill for first aid and long term care rolls.  (What, your heal skill can't actually quickly heal wounds?  How interesting.).  Feats like Skill Focus (Heal) and Master Physician could help here.  b) Packing a Shaman with a Healing totem.c) Packing 2 or more Champions with access to healing, particularly if both the Portfolios of the champion favored healing (for example Compassion and Protection).d) Packing 2 or more Bards.e) Packing a character with a high Alchemy skill and recipes for some curing potions. With the possible exception of 'b', you couldn't replace a Cleric with anything on that list, but you could mix and match to obtain an equivalent or nearly equivalent healing level.  A Champion with both the Compassion and Protection portfolios (plus skill in Heal) and a Bard would probably do it.  Going with 'a' and 'e' would almost let you get away with out a caster, but it would be far from optimal in terms of cost and such.  Probably would lose utility at high levels, but I rarely go there anyway.No, it doesn't, though the rules on magic item construction are a bit different than the standard.   The main point was to remove cheap unlimited healing from the game, because I didn't like how its presence changed the game from the one I remembered in 1e.</blockquote>

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