Be nice to get an official answer.
No, I have no official answers.
A: The difficulty of the DC is likely intentional. Cursed Wound has always been a game-changer/derailer in that way (for better or worse).
Attempting to heal someone could drain all your spells or send you on a trip to a faraway city to find the rare person who could tackle it.
At least they give you a Fort save this edition. :)
And thankfully it's a doable save:
+10 Level + 4 Expert +3 Con +1 Item = +18, makes it on a 9, while most frontliners should have +4 Con & Master Fortitude by then.
Unfortunately it looks like it applies to all healing, not just the wound...so oh crap if you miss that.
B: Curses can be a type of affliction, but doesn't need to be progressive, just like some poisons simply injure and have no later stages.
Oddly, Cursed Wounds mentions healing counteracts at DC 29 (Level 10 creature), not the DC for relieving the curse via Remove Curse. (Not that I know another way to determine DC.)
C. This does need an official answer since it gets a bit metaphysical in an invented world.
Yes, you can target the Clay Golem, but no, you can't effect it.
Except are you effecting it?
All the mechanics adjust the ally's stats, not the golem's, though on the flip side it's obviously tied to the golem exclusively. So the golem seems to be caught up in the effect, which it can't be, so I'd lean toward the spell not working. The spell does mention working on the actions of the golem, which pretty much seals the deal for me.
I could see an interpretation being though that you're selecting the golem so that the blessings are tuned to it, but that the blessings aren't actually interacting with the golem itself (hence the mechanical effects only going on the ally). I think that's fishing, but a GM wouldn't be breaking an explicit rule to interpret it that way.
Oh, and I have a love/hate relationship with Clay Golems mainly due to this ability.
Note that the description of the curse notes that only magical healing still works but if you use a spell you need to counteract the curse. Which leaves bringing your HP to maximum in order to break the curse using healing potions as a viable alternative as healing potions are magical but not a spell.
The golem’s counteract level is equal to its creature level.
I think this part, right here, needs errata. Because spells have a counteract level equal to spell level.
What you can
counteract depends on the check result and the target’s
level. If an effect is a spell, its level is the counteract level.
Otherwise, halve its level and round up to determine its
counteract level. If an effect’s level is unclear and it came
from a creature, halve and round up the creature’s level.
Note that the golem (specific overrides general) calls out its counteract level specifically being equal to its level, or twice the standard value.
Good heckin' luck casting a high enough healing spell to not auto-fail the check.
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The golem’s counteract level is equal to its creature level.I think this part, right here, needs errata. Because spells have a counteract level equal to spell level.
What you can
counteract depends on the check result and the target’s
level. If an effect is a spell, its level is the counteract level.
Otherwise, halve its level and round up to determine its
counteract level. If an effect’s level is unclear and it came
from a creature, halve and round up the creature’s level.Note that the golem (specific overrides general) calls out its counteract level specifically being equal to its level, or twice the standard value.
Good heckin' luck casting a high enough healing spell to not auto-fail the check.
That’s only if you want to outright remove the curse. Simply healing a person has a much lower DC.
(I do believe something is off with the “counteract equal to golem level” though and that should be looked at)
That’s only if you want to outright remove the curse. Simply healing a person has a much lower DC.
The DC is listed, and the counteract rules at least tell us what the caster adds to their roll. I'll give you that.
I'm just not sure if a "success" against that DC triggers this phrase: "Counteract the target if its counteract level is no more than 1 level higher than your effect’s counteract level."
I.e. does the healing happen once you roll a 29+, or do we have to check levels first?
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That’s only if you want to outright remove the curse. Simply healing a person has a much lower DC.The DC is listed, and the counteract rules at least tell us what the caster adds to their roll. I'll give you that.
I'm just not sure if a "success" against that DC triggers this phrase: "Counteract the target if its counteract level is no more than 1 level higher than your effect’s counteract level."
I.e. does the healing happen once you roll a 29+, or do we have to check levels first?
The former, specific overrides general.