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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3324498" data-attributes="member: 158">I'm going to say something that always get disputed:You do not need clerics in 3E.You really don't. Between Druids, Favored Souls, Binders (Tome of Magic), Bards, Rangers, Paladins, Cure light wounds wands, and even Generous natural healing rules, The need for cleric as band-aid has NEVER BEEN LOWER in the game of D&amp;D. Ever. Honestly, people don't know how good they have it now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Over half of the base classes can do some form of healing (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Ranger, Monk, and Paladin). Of these, only Monks cannot use various Cure wounds wands. The scarcity of cure potions and wands in the default-assumed game is pretty uncommon. Even if a person never had so much as a magic-caster in the party, then their natural healing restores their full hit points in (Hit Dice + CON bonus) days. A wizard at 1 hit point will be in tip top shape in 4 days, give or take a day; a fighter, in ten days.With all the advantages, a party isn't going to be hurting for hit points for more than few days, rather than a few weeks, as in the older games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 3324498, member: 158"] I'm going to say something that always get disputed: [B]You do not need clerics in 3E.[/B] You really don't. Between Druids, Favored Souls, Binders (Tome of Magic), Bards, Rangers, Paladins, Cure light wounds wands, and even Generous natural healing rules, The need for cleric as band-aid has NEVER BEEN LOWER in the game of D&D. Ever. Honestly, people don't know how good they have it now. ;) Over half of the base classes can do some form of healing (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Ranger, Monk, and Paladin). Of these, only Monks cannot use various Cure wounds wands. The scarcity of cure potions and wands in the default-assumed game is pretty uncommon. Even if a person never had so much as a magic-caster in the party, then their natural healing restores their full hit points in (Hit Dice + CON bonus) days. A wizard at 1 hit point will be in tip top shape in 4 days, give or take a day; a fighter, in ten days. With all the advantages, a party isn't going to be hurting for hit points for more than few days, rather than a few weeks, as in the older games. [/QUOTE]

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