Medicine change back to Healing


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It it just me but Medicine sounds wrong in a fantasy game or alchmists, clerics and apothecaries? Is there really a problem with Healing as the skill name?


The problem with healing is that a lot of Spellcasters picked it thinking it'd improve their healing spells.


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Secret Wizard wrote:
The problem with healing is that a lot of Spellcasters picked it thinking it'd improve their healing spells.

They should read the book before picking anything.

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Enderrin wrote:
Secret Wizard wrote:
The problem with healing is that a lot of Spellcasters picked it thinking it'd improve their healing spells.
They should read the book before picking anything.

Would be nice, but new players rarely do...


Enderrin wrote:
Secret Wizard wrote:
The problem with healing is that a lot of Spellcasters picked it thinking it'd improve their healing spells.
They should read the book before picking anything.

Or, hear me out on this one, give the skill a name that reflects the fact it's based on mundane techniques, not magical ones, so it's not just what's written but what people comprehend as well. Working with intuition rather than against it.

Something like "boo-boo treatment" could work, but a little more grown up. Any ideas?


Mundane Healing?


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If this skill remains as Medicine, then the Healer's Tools should be renamed to Medicine Bag for those aforementioned players who are easily confused.


Enderrin wrote:
If this skill remains as Medicine, then the Healer's Tools should be renamed to Medicine Bag for those aforementioned players who are easily confused.

I'm with ya here.


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Physician. Or First Aid. Or both.


Enderrin wrote:
If this skill remains as Medicine, then the Healer's Tools should be renamed to Medicine Bag for those aforementioned players who are easily confused.

Similarly for the Healer's Gloves magic item.

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