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Options for healing:
1 - Get the Bard to take a healing spell
2 - Get someone with a high Wisdom score to take the 'Heal' skill
3 - Potions/scrolls/wands
4 - Wait a few days between major fights
If any of those options can work with your group then I'd say play what you want. Even if they don't I'd say play what you want... just make sure you stand in the back. :]
Play the one you really want, otherwise you'll keep saying to yourself, "Yeah but what if..."
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Yes - play the one you want !!
I remember my first character - a wizard.
I got him a Healers Kit (at least as wizard you have money for this from yopur 150 stating gp) and he took caretaker as a trait that I worked in to my story.
I managed to save two comrades from bleeding to death in my first game.
Some of the best games are without a healer. You suddenly have to improvise and treat more carefully.
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This is a green table so there wont be a lot - there are some level 2 characters but some players can be... reluctant to share their wands of CLW
If they're reluctant to share with someone who could get their own but isn't willing to spend the PP on it, that's very understandable. Each player is responsible for their own character.
If they're reluctant to share with a "freshie" (all they have is their starting 150, with no completed scenarios), that's kind of a dick move.
Maybe my experience is out of whack, but I've often found that level 1-2 adventures are pretty generous with healing potions, at least in the first couple of seasons.
Frankly, unless the adventure you're playing has a reputation as a real killer, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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Maybe my experience is out of whack, but I've often found that level 1-2 adventures are pretty generous with healing potions, at least in the first couple of seasons.
Frankly, unless the adventure you're playing has a reputation as a real killer, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Mostly agreed. Potions of CLW are only 50 gp and always available, so I'd recommend getting a few people to have their own before hand.
If you're playing Shipyard Rats or Dalsine Affair, just play the character that you don't mind getting killed.
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The PCs in my home game are all non-healers and they do great. I even consider it "optimal", because there is more DPS/DPR, not as much healing is needed. Our "healer" is actually a Sorcerer.
The only thing you really need is someone who can provide out of combat healing, by using a wand of cure light wounds (5.5 hp average per charge) or even better, Infernal Healing (10 hp per charge) if you don't mind a slight evil aura.
Infernal Healing is a 1st level spell that can be used by most arcane spellcasters. If you don't have any spellcasters, you're relying on UMD (which our rogue is very good at), which is possible but risky.
Treat Deadly Wounds (Heal skill) takes too long, costs too much, and does too little.
Healing potions are meant for emergencies only, using them as your main healing method is a waste of gold imo.
People with 2 PP can buy wands before the mission if they don't have them. There's really no excuse not to bring your own healing, it's so cheap. Yes, if someone is too cheap to buy one, they deserve a TPK.
The 2nd level guys that have wands either share (with the level 1s), or they can go in front and you guys can fail the mission. I've never understood non-team orientated thinking.
It really depends on the scenario whether there are healing potions lying around or not.
I'll look on the day... I can bring in my FRESH level 1 - a finesse build a level 1/1 Samurai-Magus or my level 1 cleric with a brand new wand of clw... and while I dont mind helping new players I remember one session where I ended up down 17 charges - predominately on other players who chose not to have such a wand.
Just a side question for you, but if it is a fresh level 1, how can it already be multiclassed? To have that second class, you would have to have already played in three scenarios.
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Maybe my experience is out of whack, but I've often found that level 1-2 adventures are pretty generous with healing potions, at least in the first couple of seasons.
Frankly, unless the adventure you're playing has a reputation as a real killer, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Good point Level 1-2 scenarios do generally have ample healing. Just remember to loot heartily.
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Jiggy had the right notion. Bring both, tell them about the one you want to play. Surely there will be discussion of the ramifications of not having a healer, and they'll either have someone play a level 1 pregen cleric or play one of their own healer-types. If they don't, they're agreeing to the terms of "we don't have a healer, play smart."
From a GM perspective, the tables without healers get crippled easier, but are in no ways a wipe waiting to happen.
Heck, I played a 8-9 tier with a level 6 wizard, two level 9 fighter types and my level 8 witch as the solo healer (not built as one), using wands of CLW (actually they were ILW because we were playing You Only Die Twice), and even though things got really hairy we ended it without a singly player death. Players tend to get sloppy when there's ample healing, without it, you just need to be a bit more careful.
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I've seen a 5 player table of PA fighters and barbarians Waltz thru all the fights in a mod without much more than a scratch. Enemies just didn't last long.
Now the non-combat portions were difficult.
Hah, yea. That was like our table. Team "haste enlarge rage reach trip" was quite the success.
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In relation to the topic of this thread:
Yesterday I played in a scenario where 7 PCs played up to subtier 4-5 (levels were 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3).
Fighting the 7th-level BBEG, the cleric went down in round 1 without ever acting. Fast-forward three or four rounds, and my wife's Ranger1/Bard1 with the Sacred Touch trait has saved three lives (including the cleric's).