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Back to school yesterday. Wohoo.
Ok also story time with ruralair's dnd characters.
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I created a Dwarf cleric with the life domain. I wanted to play a healer/tank class and figured this was the best option. Now, you know me, and no character build I create for an online game with strangers is going to be properly balanced, but I won't spoil things.
We started at level three. I multiclassed into a cleric 1/ranger 2 because it made sense for the character's story, but I plan to put all further levels into cleric.
Session 1, there's a large band of Goblins, Bugbears, and a couple Orcs attacking the village we start in. The party is clearly overmatched for DPS but the drunk barbarian decides that he wants to fight anyway. Yay.
Four rounds later the party is at about half HP and moralle is low. I wonder why? It couldn't be the fact that we're in an unbeatable battle and it looks like everyone dies at session 1. Thanks mr. barbarian, you really add some teamwork to this story.
Gardain, my cleric, hasn't cast any spells yet and walks forward.
"Fall back to the tavern and block the doors. I need a little time."
Party agrees that at this point, they're willing to follow the advice of the previously meek Dwarf, and falls back to the tavern. Gardain prays to his deity and in a flash of divine light, ten berries appear in his hand. He repeats this until there are thirty berries. "Eat these, now." He hands three to the nearby fighter. The fighter looks skeptically at the little berries but swallows them. Fighter heals for 12 HP and is almost at max. "What the heck, I didn't know goodberries were so powerful." says one of the players out of character.
At this point, I have to explain what just happened. At second level, the ranger class gains access to the goodberry spell. The spell summons ten magic berries in your hand that each heal 1 hp and provide sustenance for one day. Insert LotR way-bread memes here.
"Okay, so he has three spell slots, that's 30 berries. You said a berry heals for 1 HP, the fighter should have healed for three." says the DM. The silly troglodyte has no idea.
Well no, because live domain clerics have a trait at level one. Blessed healer makes it so that when you cast a healing spell, it heals an additional two HP plus HP equal to the spell's level. Thing is, each goodberry counts as an individual healing spell for these purposes which means that each berry heals an additional three HP. One casting of this spell heals forty freaking hit points. To give some contrast, this is a level one healing spell and it heals about eight times the average amount that cure wounds does.
Needless to say, we won the fight. Everyone got a level, and at level four the number of spell slots for a cleric/ranger multiclass doubles. Gardain can now heal two hundred and sixty hit points in one minute.
Ok also story time with ruralair's dnd characters.
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I created a Dwarf cleric with the life domain. I wanted to play a healer/tank class and figured this was the best option. Now, you know me, and no character build I create for an online game with strangers is going to be properly balanced, but I won't spoil things.
We started at level three. I multiclassed into a cleric 1/ranger 2 because it made sense for the character's story, but I plan to put all further levels into cleric.
Session 1, there's a large band of Goblins, Bugbears, and a couple Orcs attacking the village we start in. The party is clearly overmatched for DPS but the drunk barbarian decides that he wants to fight anyway. Yay.
Four rounds later the party is at about half HP and moralle is low. I wonder why? It couldn't be the fact that we're in an unbeatable battle and it looks like everyone dies at session 1. Thanks mr. barbarian, you really add some teamwork to this story.
Gardain, my cleric, hasn't cast any spells yet and walks forward.
"Fall back to the tavern and block the doors. I need a little time."
Party agrees that at this point, they're willing to follow the advice of the previously meek Dwarf, and falls back to the tavern. Gardain prays to his deity and in a flash of divine light, ten berries appear in his hand. He repeats this until there are thirty berries. "Eat these, now." He hands three to the nearby fighter. The fighter looks skeptically at the little berries but swallows them. Fighter heals for 12 HP and is almost at max. "What the heck, I didn't know goodberries were so powerful." says one of the players out of character.
At this point, I have to explain what just happened. At second level, the ranger class gains access to the goodberry spell. The spell summons ten magic berries in your hand that each heal 1 hp and provide sustenance for one day. Insert LotR way-bread memes here.
"Okay, so he has three spell slots, that's 30 berries. You said a berry heals for 1 HP, the fighter should have healed for three." says the DM. The silly troglodyte has no idea.
Well no, because live domain clerics have a trait at level one. Blessed healer makes it so that when you cast a healing spell, it heals an additional two HP plus HP equal to the spell's level. Thing is, each goodberry counts as an individual healing spell for these purposes which means that each berry heals an additional three HP. One casting of this spell heals forty freaking hit points. To give some contrast, this is a level one healing spell and it heals about eight times the average amount that cure wounds does.
Needless to say, we won the fight. Everyone got a level, and at level four the number of spell slots for a cleric/ranger multiclass doubles. Gardain can now heal two hundred and sixty hit points in one minute.
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