Healing someone from afar?


Rules Questions


I've looked all over the place and can't find anything that enables you to do this, but my DM told me there was either a Spell or Magic Item that meant any time two characters wore either a bangle or a bracelet (I think it has to be gold), the original Spell Caster could touch his bracelet and it would heal the other person wearing it (with Cure Light, Cure Mod etc).

Is anyone familiar with this and if so, what is it?

Thanks very much!

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Sacred Bond
School conjuration (healing); Level cleric/oracle 3, inquisitor 2, paladin 2

CASTING
Casting Time 1 round
Components V, S, F (a pair of golden bracelets worth 100 gp each worn by both you and the target)

EFFECT
Range touch; see text
Targets creature touched
Duration 10 minutes/level (D)
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)

DESCRIPTION
To use this spell, you first touch the intended recipient, creating a sympathetic field of healing energies between you.

Once the spell has been cast, you and the target may cast conjuration (healing) spells with a range of touch upon each other so long as you are within close range (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels). Should either you or the target remove your bracelet, the spell immediately ends.


Thanks a lot big. :)

Turns out it was in the APG book all along, but not knowing the name of it prevented me from being able to find it.

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The Holy Vindicator has an ability that modifies his channle so that he/she can do a long straight line instead of a 30' radius. Witches can deliver touch spells through their familars. Those are a couple of examples.


The Reach Spell metamagic feat will allow for this. And you can get it on a metamagic rod, too.


There's also the mass cure spells. Those are close range too, but they kinda higher level

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And Channel Energy, to point at the obvious. Also consider the Selective Channeling feat.


And Word of Healing feat. And Heavenly Fire.

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If you're going with that strategy, Shield Other is a nice complement to Sacred Bond (same range).


Ring of Friendship is a nice option for Shield Other when you don't like the range problems (say, when your meat shield is a charger).


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Spectral Hand is another option for delivering touch spells (up to 4th-level spells, at least) at range; it works out to medium range, as well. Works best with a witch (has cure/inflict spells and spectral hand on their spell list) or a mystic theurge (wizard or sorcerer as the arcane class, or possibly magus using Spell Blending to pick up spectral hand as a 2nd-level spell).

Alternately, a magic item that allows the use of spectral hand at will (like hand of the mage does for mage hand) has a market price of 10,800 gp. A more limited version would have a market price of 2,160 gp per use per day. Double the market price if the item doesn't take up a body slot.


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This guy's actually a Cleric in Full Plate and a Tower Shield.

His name's Brik Wahl.

He's a GMPC and has more wealth than he should do, but that's explained through his history of gambling, borrowing money he can't ever pay back and going on the run as a result of it.

He lives in Sandpoint currently, has a lot of depth to him and has 28AC. He had that from level 3 with all of his +1 gear, but yea, he officially left, but because of how much my girlfriend and her character liked him (they're the only two left alive from the original party, so without him, the Half-Elf feels lonely), he's coming back.

She doesn't know this yet, but he actually left because he had something to do (in regards to his backstory) and unsure of whether or not the male 15 year old Half-Elf could protect himself properly, Brik gave him a Platinum Ring before his departure.

In Thistlewood, just before an encounter, the Half-Elves ring started to glow. He couldn't detect magic from it before, but it was apparent that magic was active within it now.

Brik's near, between 80 and 150ft away, watching over him (using the Reach Spell above to stay far enough out of sight - Thanks Stream) and little does the Half-Elf know, when he gets attacked, any damage he takes will be halved and Brik, being a Cleric, can just heal his own wounds back up.

He may be a drunk Cleric who follows his own ideals (whilst agreeing with Cayden Cailean's, to which, it was probably Cayden who gave him his power in the first place (he didn't have a Church upbringing), but he's not stupid.

He's always stood up for what he believed in.

One crucial part of his back story had him walk into his house one day, only to find his wife dead on the floor. Not knowing what to do, his first reaction was to get every Priest he could find, to aid him. However, when they all realised he was married to a Half-Elf, every Priest refused to help the distraught man and refused to bury or even go near his Half-Elven Wife.

However, seeing how much will and determination Brik had, Cayden bestowed him with Divine Power, making it possible to give his Wife the proper burial and funeral she deserved. Afterall, he was her life and her only family.

Anyway, he'll be following the party all through this part of the story, making strange things occur, but will be there when the party need him most!

Shield Other and Selective Channeling are things already in his build.

Selective Channeling was chosen at level 1 (it's essential for a Cleric of any type imo, unless you act like a field medic, healing allies and enemies alike) and Shield Other is what's allowing the Half-Elf to take half damage. Sacred Bond was the spell I wanted for future reference. :)

If you really wanted, I could post his full back story. It's not a nice one and although Human himself, his Wife was a Half-Elf who was killed by a man called Drellton. This man is racist towards Half-Elves and believes all should be exterminated from the face of Golarion.

I'm going to make a grim side quest for the party to investigate, where they'll eventually get to meet up with this guy and if they don't kill him, Brik will. Brik shares similar views to Cayden and doesn't feel people should act above or oppress others, yet Drellton, a man who Brik doesn't even know just raped and killed his wife for the fun of it.

This man is on the path of vengeance and now that he's a little more sober, he's found his way again and is determined to put an end to Drellton's misdeeds whether it be by killing him or sending him down to the Hell's of Magnimar's prison.

His nature is friendly, sociable and humourous however, so he'll only really get agitated when he sees his friends or loved ones hurt...and of course when he meets the Bandit Leader responsible for the death of his Wife and Soulmate (Syanna Wahl - 38 year old Half-Elf).

Brik was 25 when she died and she was 38, both of whom were half way to middle age, so they looked pretty much the same age. Brik always looked younger than he was anyway, and Syanna, being a Half-Elf had naturally beautiful and youthful looking features.


A Gravewalker Witch can cast any of their touch spells at very short range (within their Aura of Desecration) after 3rd level, this can include their healing spells.

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