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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6657456" data-attributes="member: 6775031">We had the PHB and... I think it was the Forgotten Realms book ? The point is, we were early adopters. For my first character, I went to make a healer, because I enjoy playing healers.And I saw that I had an at-will power to grant temporary HP, which was really neat! But my hopes were immediately dashed when I realized that there was nothing I could do without making an attack roll.That things worked out better at high levels, or later on in the edition cycle, was irrelevant to me at the time. Everyone else had shiny new toys to play with. Even the fighter, who never had powers before. Even the wizard, who was previously limited to a meager handful of spells per day, and could now throw Magic Missiles and Thunderwaves at-will. The healer seemed like the only one left out of the fun.This isn't rhetoric. This was genuine disappointment. I mean, it was short-lived disappointment, and there were plenty of other things to explore besides just being a healer, but that doesn't make it any less genuine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6657456, member: 6775031"] We had the PHB and... I think it was the Forgotten Realms book ? The point is, we were early adopters. For my first character, I went to make a healer, because I enjoy playing healers. And I saw that I had an at-will power to grant temporary HP, which was really neat! But my hopes were immediately dashed when I realized that there was nothing I could do without making an attack roll. That things worked out better at high levels, or later on in the edition cycle, was irrelevant to me at the time. Everyone [I]else[/I] had shiny new toys to play with. Even the fighter, who never had powers before. Even the wizard, who was previously limited to a meager handful of spells per day, and could now throw Magic Missiles and Thunderwaves at-will. The healer seemed like the [I]only[/I] one left out of the fun. This isn't rhetoric. This was genuine disappointment. I mean, it was short-lived disappointment, and there were plenty of other things to explore besides just being a healer, but that doesn't make it any less genuine. [/QUOTE]

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