Why is healing conjuration?

[James Jacobs]

MrSin wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Regardless... it's a legacy we decided to keep and it is what it is.

I thought the legacy was that it was necromancy... Legacy is confusing.

Zhayne wrote:

James Jacobs wrote:

Another train of thought is that healing magic "conjures" energy from the positive energy plane to heal people.

Then isn't Necromancy actually Conjuration, too, because it 'conjures' negative energy from the negative material plane?

Eh, if you really wanted to dig into it you could turn a lot of spells into conjuratoni because a lot of spells make things out of thin air. You summon up the color spray from another world. You summon up the form of another beast and use it, that's a lot of extra mass right? You conjure up space parasites that dominate the person's mind. Go nuts with it! Mind you some ideas are crazier than others.

Frankly, my preference would have been to make the healing spells necromancy. After all... that's what they were originally, back in 1st edition.

For the actual reason why they made the change to conjuration I guess one would have to track down Jonathan Tweet. Sean K Reynolds might know though.