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Find Steed (PHB, p. 240) states: “If you cast a spell that targets only you, the spell can also target your steed.” Cure Wounds is a touch spell targeting a single creature, so it appears to qualify—...
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The Treat Wounds exploration activity says: You spend 10 minutes treating one injured living creature (targeting yourself, if you so choose). The target is then temporarily immune to Treat Wounds ...
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So I thought of this Idea involving halfling softstones that would be infused with healing spells before thrown at my party, and since its nonlethal any damage done would be healed automatically, ...
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Been thinking about how to optimize a Periapt of Wound Closure to do some crazy self healing. But to do so, I need to heal via Hit Die, which typically only happens via Short Rest. However I vaguely ...
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The Crystal Blade from Fizban's Treasury of Dragons says (emphasis mine) This magic sword’s blade is fashioned from a horn or spine from a crystal dragon. When you hit with an attack roll using this ...
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The difficulty lies in the 10 min. casting time for Prayer of Healing, and the 1 minute duration of Beacon of Hope, and when the Prayer of Healing 'happens'. Is the Prayer spell a gradual, 10 min. ...
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The relevant rules sections - Death Saving Throws and Stabilizing a Creature - state: Death Saving Throws Whenever you start your turn with 0 hit points, you must make a special saving throw, called ...
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The party is about to start my own 5e conversion of the classic 1e module Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits. I am considering converting one particular NPC, In roll20, this ability is listed as being ...
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A.k.a. How do you undo a Slaad infection now? In the 2014 rules there were multiple ways to cure diseases using magic: the lesser restoration, heroes' feast, raise dead, resurrection, and true ...
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The rules for Short Rests say: To start a Short Rest, you must have at least 1 Hit Point. The rules for Long Rests say: To start a Long Rest, you must have at least 1 Hit Point. The rules for ...
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I'm aware that some healing spells, such as: Cure XYZ Wounds series, Heal, ...do deal damage to undead creatures instead. There's plenty of other, interesting healing spells though, such as: Purify ...
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The Moment of Renewal spell targets up to 6 creatures and says (emphasis mine): The targets experience a day's worth of recovery in an instant. Any detrimental effects that would be gone after 24 ...
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In a one-shot my DM ran, one of the other players decided to play as a high elf that thought they were a cat and ended up being a drunk 'cat'. I asked if I could use Lesser Restoration to cure the ...
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A damaged simulacrum must normally be repaired over 24 hours at a cost of 100 gp per hp. If the original creature had the ability for fast healing or regeneration, would it work?
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I have a campaign that is running on dark matter (sci-fi DnD 5e conversion) In this campaign there is a player with the race of Vect, which is a construct. There is also a player who can create ...
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When I wrote my question a few weeks back about making blind PC's viable, I'd thought it was going to be a purely theoretical exercise. Today I came across an encounter in an AP I'm running involving ...
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The Cortex Prime handbook is a bit vague about recovering multiple complications/stress during downtime scenes. Here's what seems clear: A player can only attempt to recover a particular complication ...
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The lesser restoration spell description states: You touch a creature and can end either one disease or one condition afflicting it. The condition can be blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned. ...
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The Zeal cleric capstone Blaze of Glory reads as follows: When you are reduced to 0 hit points by an attacker you can see, even if you would be killed outright, you can use your reaction to move up ...
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I have made a character that has the Medic dedication and has both the battle medicine and the ward medic feats. See below for description. Can my character heal multiple allies during combat ...
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I've been seeing a lot of people (specifically DNDShorts) saying that healing is actually not optimal to play. I've always been confused by this, as extending the length of which your party members ...
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I'm familiar with Domain Draughts but is there a permanent way to gain access to the Healing Domain when your deity does not grant it?
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As of the 2018 PHB errata, the creature generated by Simulacrum is a construct. Constructs cannot be healed by many spells or features, such as Cure Wounds or a Paladin's Lay on Hands (that ...
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Is taking the slashing damage necessary to get the benefit of Risky Surgery? If the target's resistance1 to slashing completely blocks the damage, is it still a critical success? like a Cosmos Oracle
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I am currently playing a Rogue who is the party's 'healer'. I put that in quotes because he's taken a background of Back Alley Doctor, meaning he has the Risky Surgery feat which says: Your surgery ...
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The Ring of Amity from Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants has a property that states: When you first attune to this ring, you can touch one willing creature and form a magical bond between the two ...
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The new book Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants has an attunement item called the Ring of Amity, which has an interesting property: When you first attune to this ring, you can touch one willing ...
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While familiars have been commonly used to deliver potions of healing because "your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands" and "can take other actions as ...
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I am a major Grung appreciator, so I'd like to play one. My idea is for a Grung cleric, but I have worries about how this would work. Mainly because most healing spells are contact-based. Because of ...
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In 5e D&D + Grim Hollow, how does the 'undead' characteristic given to a human PC change how some spells, items or abilities affect him? Grim Hollow is a dark fantasy content book and can be found ...
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Using the rules for Proficiency without Level, what is the DC for Treat Wounds? I assume the base DC would stay at 15, which makes things harder for PCs but not too hard, but what about the option to ...
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The race/species of Halfling (Mark of Healing) (ERLW, page 43) states Spells of the Mark. If you have the Spellcasting or the Pact Magic class feature, the spells on the Mark of Healing Spells table ...
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A level 1 biopsionic psychic can heal 1+1d6 hit points. What if they want to limit it to some lower value? is there a way to "pull the punch"?
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The description of the wither and bloom spell states (Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, p. 38; emphasis mine): You invoke both death and life upon a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on a point within ...
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I recognize that there are several Sildar-related questions answered in this forum, but my question is more related to procedure than his specific character. The adventure guide says "Quick-...
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I'm playing a Grave domain cleric with the Metamagic Adept feat and Twinned Spell as an option. My question is if I cast a healing spell like cure wounds on a single target at 0 hit points and use my ...
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I recently created a Mercy Monk with a Field Medic background/career, though the more I thought about what his job would entail, the more I started to wonder about the mechanics of long-rest healing ...
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I've often been frustrated when an ally becomes unconscious and nobody has or is willing to spare a spell slot to revive them, which means the party has to wait 1-4 hours to continue, so I designed ...
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One of the people I play with wants to play a very dedicated healer. The class is of course a Cleric with Healing Font, most free slots are also filled with Heal, the rest are buffs and utility. He ...
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The wither and bloom spell reads, in part (Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, p. 38): [...] one creature of your choice in that area can spend and roll one of its unspent Hit Dice and regain a number ...
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Skeleton Cloistered Cleric of Urgathoa, Death domain. Everyone in the party has Negative Healing. In Foundry VTT, Single action Harm 1 is healing 1d8+4. Two action Harm 1 is healing 1d8+12. Single ...
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The party has recently lost its cleric (the player and the character). Supposing no one intends to switch character or heavily modify their build - even if there are some chances to retrain - what ...
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This question came up when discussing the healing effect from the Gloves of Soul Catching. The text for this legendary item states: After making a successful unarmed strike while wearing these gloves,...
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Spirit Link: While the duration persists, you gain no benefit from regeneration or fast healing. The Pearly White Spindle does not use any of these phrases: When you invest this aeon stone, it ...
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The wither and bloom spell says, in part: one creature of your choice in that area can spend and roll one of its unspent Hit Dice and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your ...
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The Greater Restoration spell cures many conditions in the worlds of D&D 5e. According to the spell description, these include: One effect that charmed or petrified the target One curse, including ...
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The Healer's Kit says: As an Action, you can expend one use of the kit to stabilize a creature that has 0 Hit Points Whereas the cantrip Spare the Dying says: You touch a living creature that has ...
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Assuming a typical settlement with around 500 inhabitants. Would they be able to easily heal most wounded person from accidents in no time or would it be more complicated? From what I guess, in such a ...
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The Aid spell says: Each target's hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 5 for the duration The Simulacrum spell says: If the simulacrum is damaged, you can repair it in an alchemical ...
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Beside Undeath's Blessing, is there a way to add temporary negative healing to a character? A potion or a divine spell would be best, but any solution is welcome.
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