Heal and Lore Roleplay Guide/Rules

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Heal

How to RP Healing ability in the One Power.

The Healer Class Level and Heal Skill are Tied and Ranked:

1-5 (Cleric/Druid+Hybrid = +5 SKILL, 6-10 +10 SKILL; 11-20 (+15); (21-30) (20) (31-36) (25) (37-40) (30)

Rank Caps (Even with Required Levels): Rank 1 (5) Rank 2 (10) Rank 3 (15 Rank E1 (20) Rank E2 (25) Rank E3 (30)

- Other Notes: Any Spells/Abilities/OOC Ter'angreal that accrue to a Class would be only reflective of their ability in accordance with the General Chart Guideline. So a Sorc 39/Paladin 1 would still only have the "non-canon" basic healing ability with Lay on Hands or using their "Ter'angreal" even with +50 heal.

- Chart based on Sere's work

Pure sorc/wiz and basically no heal = Unable to heal

Pure sorc/wiz and 40+ heal = Can heal very minor wounds (non-cannon: and able to keep someone near death alive until they can receive proper healing) -> This is the best possible for a sorc/wiz

Druid/Cleric Hybrids and Bards

1 - 5 cleric/druid levels or 1 - 9 bard levels and 10-30 heal = can heal very minor bruises and cuts (non-cannon: able to keep someone near death alive until they can receive proper healing)

1 - 5 cleric/druid levels or 1 - 9 bard levels and 20-50 heal = can heal minor bruises and cuts

6 - 10 cleric/druid levels or 10 - 19 bard levels and 20-50 heal = can heal some major bruises and cuts

9 - 10 cleric/druid levels or 10 - 19 bard levels and 50+ heal = can heal things like broken bones as well as more major bruises and cuts

11 - 19 cleric/druid levels or 20 - 29 bard levels and 30-50 heal= can heal things like broken bones as well as more major bruises and cuts

11 - 19 cleric/druid levels or 20 - 29 bard levels and 50+ heal = can heal most injures but can only sustain in near-death situations

20 - 34 cleric/druid levels or 30 - 40 bard levels and 30-50 heal = can heal most injures but can only sustain in near-death situations

20 - 34 cleric/druid levels and 75+ heal = can save people from near-death situations, but not talented enough to excessively heal or do things like gentling/stilling (when we get it)

35 - 40 cleric/druid levels and 30-50 heal = can save people from near-death situations, but not talented enough to excessively heal or do things like gentling/stilling* (when we get it)

35 - 40 cleric/druid levels and 100+ heal = can heal just about anything


Lore

How to RP Lore and Weaving Ability Etc.

- Lore Removed from Gateway Widget
- Consider Lore as Knowledge of the World
- Consider Spellcraft as a Combination of Strength + Weave Knowledge

Lore is slightly reduced on Faction Bonuses so that if one wants to "focus" in gaining knowledge as part of their character, faction bonuses don't immediately give people as high a skill level without skill and feat investments.

The skill distribution is this: (With Aes Sedai and Wise One Apprentices having a slightly faster progression reflecting initial training, though ultimately parity (Black Tower and Aiel all have access to Aiel (maybe not necessarily Black Tower - Aiel, but certainly can be worked out), BT resources, the Stone of Tear, Cairhien etc.)

Asha'man: 5/5/10/15/20/20

Aes Sedai: 5/10/15/15/20/20

Wise Ones: 5/10/15/15

[Kerry Sedai]

This is under review for the following reasons

1. No other talents or weaves have a requirement; no RP benefits exist for arcane casters
2. No other talents are guaranteed just for building a certain way
3. Some of the healing i've seen ingame has been RP'ed with such abysmal offhandedness that I find a special status for 'healers' or 'healing' to be absurd.

Edit:

Current Changes

Procedure is to have the person comply with or be unable to resist a delve and request the person or DM NPC's status before healing; delves and heals as one emote is not permitted as it is technically a godmod

[Kerry Sedai]

Change List:

All classes now compare the sum of levels to the Cleric/Druid values (with heal requirements)

Cleric, Druid, Bard = 1
Sorcerer/Wizard: Epic levels count for 1/2

[Ankhani]

I generally trust people to RP with whatever they want to do. Most people RP in good faith, and aren't trying to exploit the system. However, a Rule can not rely upon the assumption of "Good intent", and it (or the ruling DM) must be ready to handle any situation. As a code/rules tester, it is my (self-appointed and unofficial) job to find ways to come up with unreasonable situations to test them.

In this case, under these guidelines, only ten cleric levels (20Any+10Sorc/Wiz*0.5+10Cleric=35) are ever required for any amount of healing. Any character with sufficiently high wisdom and a single level in cleric can cast any level cleric spell due to NwN mechanics of Divine Spellcasting. Heal is a universal class skill, which anyone can learn. Thus the only difficulty is finding an item with sufficent +Heal to broach the 100 Heal skill requirement. (This assumes such an item exists - a rule should not be created to impose an impossible restriction)

The concern here, if it isn't apparent, is that it could be quite possible for someone to make a "Do Everything" channeler, with very strong spellcasting of 30 levels of Sorcerer/Wizard, along with all the skill in healing of 35 levels of Cleric.

How would the rules handle this?

[Kerry Sedai]

Epic Levels = Levels you take in the class after you have 20 levels in the class and gain the 'Epic Sorc' 'Epic Wizard' feat

9 - 10 cleric/druid levels or 10 - 19 bard levels and 50+ heal = can heal things like broken bones as well as more major bruises and cuts

Is where a pure wizard/sorc would fall on the chart

I'm not married to it but if clerics/druids can be trusted* its possible that if healing items are added (they might not be) for the chart with spells/day they might instead get additional bonus spells instead on their faction ring

i.e If you had 2 additional bonus level 7 spell slots you always have 2x Greater Restoration/Resurrection prepared with those slots and never have an all Destruction loadout; it can benefit offense by freeing slots but can't be used themselves for offensive spells

[Ankhani]

Perhaps I was unclear or misunderstood. "20Any" in the reference equation above refers to any caster (i.e. Cleric, Sorcerer, Wizard, Druid or Bard), not any class at all.

My understanding of the rule is something like this. For Straight classing, Cleric, Druid and Bard levels count in full; and Wizard/Sorcerer levels up to level 20 count 1:1, and then half for each level over 20 (e.g. 20S/W is worth 20, 30S/W is worth 25, 40S/W is worth 30). For Multiclassing, rather than going solely off C/D/B levels, you add the levels' worth together. (e.g. 20SW+20CDB=40, 30SW+10CDB=35, 30CDB+10SW=40)

The point to this exercise is to show how it may be possible to get the best of both worlds.

[Kerry Sedai]

What's listed is all you get

1 for a Cleric/Druid/Bard level
0.5 for Wizard/Sorc levels beyond 20

Level 22 Sorceror has 1 effective level, not 11

[Ankhani]

So 0.5 For Wiz/Sorc levels beyond 20 only? (i.e. Sorcerer/Wizard levels 1-20 do not contribute)

[Kerry Sedai]

Right