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I hope you all understand that this question was answered hours ago. I was simply defending myself from people that felt like belittling me for not wanting to make a rules assumption.

If you all wish to continuing beating a dead horse, please by all means, continue.

And thank you for demonstrating how welcoming you are to new potential players. I am sure that publishers appreciate your free marketing. I only wish a sarcastic tone of voice could be conveyed through plain text.

To those of you whom were kind enough to simply answer the question without the need to ponder what a fool I must be, thank you.

Let's break down the sentence "The amount of damage dealt or healed is equal to 1d6 points of damage plus 1d6 points of damage for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on)."

If this were simple equation, x would equal the amount healed. In this case x is equal to or less than 6.

Assuming the maximum roll of 6, the equation would be x=6.

If it had said "per character" or "to each character", then we could make the equation x is equal to or less than 6 multiplied by the number of characters withing the effect.

If there were 10 people within range with a roll of 6, the equation would be x=6(10). In that case it would apply 6 points of healing to a a total of 10 characters.

Now what is a bigger strech, assuming that 1d6 equals a number between 1 and 6, or assuming that 1d6 equals a number between 1 and 558 (the aproximate number of squares in a 30 ft radius multiplied by the maximum roll of 6)? Of course that's assuming only one character per square.

The exact words in the book are "The amount of damage dealt or healed is equal to 1d6 points of damage plus 1d6 points of damage for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on)."

If it said "The amount of damage dealt or healed [per character witin the effect] is equal to 1d6..." then yes it would be obvious, but it doesn't. Instead it says that the amount healed is 1d6.

Even more clear would be to say Roll 1d6 (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on) and heal that much for each character within the effect.

It is nice to know that the intent was to heal that much per character, but to interpret the books actual words in that way is a significant assumption.

The developers should seriously consider adding this to their erata.

I thank you all for you help and look forward to playing Pathfinder.

Has this been clarified in any official way? I ask because if you go by the letter of the rules as they are printed do not agree with your answers.

I had theorized (and hoped) that they were intended to work as you say, but since it was just addressed in the erata, I will need something officially sanctioned by the developers to appease my DM.

Do you know if the developers every respond to rules questions on these forums?

Thank you all for your help.

My game group is about to start a Pathfinder campaign and we had a question about how powerful the Channel Energy power is for clerics.

The rules state:

The amount of damage dealt or healed is equal to 1d6 points of damage plus 1d6 points of damage for every two cleric levels beyond 1st (2d6 at 3rd, 3d6 at 5th, and so on).

Lets assume that the cleric is level 1, and there are 6 living characters within the range. Does the cleric role 1d6 and devide the results by six? For example the cleric rolls a 6 so each character is healed for one point.

OR, should the rule say that the amount healed is 1d6 per character. in this example, the cleric would make 6 individual d6 rolls?

One of our players suggested that this is intended to be a very low level healing power to stabilyze dying characters. However, the rules go on to say:

Creatures healed by channeled energy cannot exceed their maximum hit point total -all excess healing is lost.

This seems to imply that it is intended to have a more significant effect.

I would love some clarification from the developers on this.

Thanks,

Russ