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xiphumor said:

The thing wielders get that herald’s don’t is the ability to convert exertion into spells (heralds can only convert spells into exertion). Although nothing stops anyone from designing an archetype that gets a cantrip or two.

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JerichoPenumbra said:

Thanks for looking into it. I figured I'd ask since it was throwing me off since it didn't seem like one of the things that was called attention to before and Light & Dark didn't have that formatting snag in its latest version.

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Timespike said:

Okay, as near as I can determine, here's what happened with those.

The original version of necrotic healing was originally unlimited; it could basically be used at will. We realized that was way too good; cantrips that deal necrotic damage exist, and even inflict wounds is unbalanced for use as a healing spell, even with a limited target list. We realized between Light & Dark and Complete that it was still too good as a short rest feature, so we nerfed it some more.

The typo in the spell list was entirely unrelated; I had to manually reconstruct those because formatting doesn't transfer from Google Drive to Affinity, so that was almost certainly just a copy-paste error because I was using a different table as a template.

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Timespike said:

Okay, as near as I can determine, here's what happened with those.

The original version of necrotic healing was originally unlimited; it could basically be used at will. We realized that was way too good; cantrips that deal necrotic damage exist, and even inflict wounds is unbalanced for use as a healing spell, even with a limited target list. We realized between Light & Dark and Complete that it was still too good as a short rest feature, so we nerfed it some more.

The typo in the spell list was entirely unrelated; I had to manually reconstruct those because formatting doesn't transfer from Google Drive to Affinity, so that was almost certainly just a copy-paste error because I was using a different table as a template.

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JerichoPenumbra said:

Again, thank you for checking, as well as giving your reasoning and thought process on this! Guess it was a nice little coincidence picking up the error.

I'll admit it unfortunately seems like it's big loss for Unliving. While I can see the cantrips and Inflict Wounds heavily skew towards being extremely efficient for their respective resource expenditure being too good, it felt fair as a trade off. Given that besides the limited creature type, they'd be limited by the amount of times it could actually work in combat. Only being able to magically healed once a day is positively crippling in some fights given that almost all of them (especially the usual the mass healing spells) exclude Undead and non-rare multi-hit necrotic spells pretty few at low levels. Though I suppose that really drives home the need to craft rare spells for healing the Unliving party member(s) in combat.

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