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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7278265" data-attributes="member: 6799649">The descriptions of each ability tell you what that ability does. It cannot be that even after reading the description you still don't know what it does!Does this ability boost the healing power of spells cast by a caster who is standing near you, OR does it increase the amount of healing on the person being healed if that person is near you. It must be one or the other! It cannot be unknown to the ability itself!On reflection, it think it boosts casters rather than targets. If you get hit by a fireball, a vicious DM might hand you the 8d6 and make you roll the damage you take, but that damage will not be increased by your own ability to add your Cha bonus to any fire damage you roll! That ability is for increasing damage from fire spells you cast, not fire damage you suffer! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />So, on that principle, I think it's the caster of healing magic who 'officially' rolls the healing for purposes of rules that modify that healing, even if the players around the table hand the dice to someone else. Based on that, I think this new ability must affect the caster of the healing spell (if he is within range), not the recipient.I still wish the wording was unambiguous.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 7278265, member: 6799649"] The descriptions of each ability tell you what that ability does. It cannot be that even after reading the description you still don't know what it does! Does this ability boost the healing power of spells cast by a caster who is standing near you, OR does it increase the amount of healing on the person being healed if that person is near you. It must be one or the other! It cannot be unknown to the ability itself! On reflection, it think it boosts casters rather than targets. If you get hit by a [i]fireball[/i], a vicious DM might hand you the 8d6 and make you roll the damage you take, but that damage will not be increased by your own ability to add your Cha bonus to any fire damage you roll! That ability is for increasing damage from fire spells you cast, not fire damage you suffer! :D So, on that principle, I think it's the caster of healing magic who 'officially' rolls the healing for purposes of rules that modify that healing, even if the players around the table hand the dice to someone else. Based on that, I think this new ability must affect the caster of the healing spell (if he is within range), not the recipient. I still wish the wording was unambiguous. [/QUOTE]

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