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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 4345382" data-attributes="member: 114">I don't even think it is a game balance reason, to be honest - as someone said earlier, the divine caster/arcane caster has been in D&amp;D since the very beginning (and I don't know why!) and healing has always been one of the key differentiators.Every other RPG that I've experienced doesn't distinguish between divine and arcane magic and 'magic users' can just do stuff by magic.I'll admit, that is my preferred approach <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />In the core rules they can heal themselves a little via polymorph and they can summon creatures with healing (3.0 was best for this) or use planar binding to get creatures with healing.When they get access to Limited Wish (7th level spell) they can then duplicate any cleric spell of 5th level or lower, which includes Raise Dead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 4345382, member: 114"] I don't even think it is a game balance reason, to be honest - as someone said earlier, the divine caster/arcane caster has been in D&D since the very beginning (and I don't know why!) and healing has always been one of the key differentiators. Every other RPG that I've experienced doesn't distinguish between divine and arcane magic and 'magic users' can just do stuff by magic. I'll admit, that is my preferred approach :) In the core rules they can heal themselves a little via polymorph and they can summon creatures with healing (3.0 was best for this) or use planar binding to get creatures with healing. When they get access to Limited Wish (7th level spell) they can then duplicate any cleric spell of 5th level or lower, which includes Raise Dead. [/QUOTE]

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