>playing a 5e game with friends >make a dwarf life cleric of Moradin >Last game I played a healer I remembered someone taking the healer feat and that person out-healed me for the good first part of the game >I talked it over with party and DM and they allowed me to make my own background that allowed the healer feat to start >reasoning behind this is a life cleric who has done mostly healing his entire life should be able to heal with healing kits.
How does Veeky Forums feel about making a feat available as a background in 5e? Should a lv 1 human fighter with healer feat be able to out-heal a life cleric who is supposed to be the best healer in the game or is a feat as a background too powerful?
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Kevin Thompson
Seems fine, as long as the entire table is in agreement with it. But I thought the healer feat only allowed you to heal each person once per long rest?
Chase Rogers
>playing a 5e game with friends >surprised when system allows for supreme bullshit
Thomas Morris
It one d6 plus 4 plus the number of hit dice per short rest
Luis Nelson
The question is of its superiority.
Is having a feat as a background too powerful?
Ian Cox
> Healer feat Fighter > Out-healing a cleric
I mean I guess it's possible but there are quite a few drawbacks: > Costs 0.5gp per 1d6+4 heal since Healer's Kit = 5gp and has 10 uses. > Can use on a particular character only once between any rests
I agree that the first-level cleric throws out less healing between rests but it's free and it only gets better whereas the Healer feat doesn't really improve all that much as the levels go up.
Charles Long
Also there is the ability to bring people back to conscious with the healer kit too. Shouldn't a trained healer have the same ability as well?
It seems odd that a person with that feat would have abilities beyond that of someone trained in the same area especially if I took a proficiency with a healer's kit.
Mason Ortiz
I think the idea is that as a first-level cleric, your religious and magical training took priority over actually working in a hospital healing people all day long as a nurse or doctor. So it makes sense that you would not start with it.
William Johnson
The whole part of a life cleric is to heal the sick. That might be true for other clerics but not for a life cleric.
Nicholas Peterson
Quite, especially if you consider humans can choose another one at start (because of the variant)
Basically the character will have no RP asset, but will rock out any combat
I agree with this
It's like crossbow : seems like overpowered at first levels, becomes nerfed as players get extra attacks
