Heal Spell


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If I use 1 action I heal a range touched creature 1d8 HP.

If I use 2 actions I heal a creature within 30ft 1d8 + 8 HP?

If I use 3 actions I heal all creatures within 30 ft emanation 1d8 HP and damage all undead 1d8 HP?

Is that how the heal spell works?


When you cast it at 1st level, yes. You can use the one- and two-action versions to harm undead as well. Also, undead affected by the spell get a basic Fortitude save to mitigate the damage.

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Staffan Johansson wrote:
When you cast it at 1st level, yes. You can use the one- and two-action versions to harm undead as well. Also, undead affected by the spell get a basic Fortitude save to mitigate the damage.

For the 3 action version is the 30 ft emanation healing 1d8+8?


I think the 1D8 + 8 healing is only for the 2 action, single target healing.

At level 3, does the heal spell heal 2d8 and 2d8 + 16 for the 2 action version?

Can you keep heightening this above 3rd level?


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Crexis wrote:

I think the 1D8 + 8 healing is only for the 2 action, single target healing.

At level 3, does the heal spell heal 2d8 and 2d8 + 16 for the 2 action version?

Can you keep heightening this above 3rd level?

"Heightened (+1)" means that you can cast this at every level, and for every level, you get the listed benefit.

A level 2 Heal therefore does 2d8 for the 1 and 3 action variants, and 2d8+16 for the 2 action.

A level 3 Heal does 3d8 or 3d8+24.

Liberty's Edge

Yes, a '+1' under Heightening means you can heighten it as much as you like in one level increments for the listed increased effect.

EDIT: Ninja'd. Ah, well.


So I'm going to raise this thread from the dead for a quick but possibly important question.

In the Targeting, it targets willing creatures. Is that fundamentally different for the 3-action version? Do creatures need to ID the spell to receive the benefits if they are foes?


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RaptorBonz wrote:

So I'm going to raise this thread from the dead for a quick but possibly important question.

In the Targeting, it targets willing creatures. Is that fundamentally different for the 3-action version? Do creatures need to ID the spell to receive the benefits if they are foes?

3-action Heal states that "This targets all living and undead creatures in the burst."

So, willing doesn't seem necessary. I know most people don't apply the willing part for a 3-action Heal and consider monsters get healed, too.


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SuperBidi wrote:
RaptorBonz wrote:

So I'm going to raise this thread from the dead for a quick but possibly important question.

In the Targeting, it targets willing creatures. Is that fundamentally different for the 3-action version? Do creatures need to ID the spell to receive the benefits if they are foes?

3-action Heal states that "This targets all living and undead creatures in the burst."

So, willing doesn't seem necessary. I know most people don't apply the willing part for a 3-action Heal and consider monsters get healed, too.

Yes, the 3 action changes the targeting of the spell so it no longer has to be a single willing target or a single undead target, it just has to be within 30'of the caster

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