Perhaps this was covered before in a previous post... My group and I played our first game of this last week, and of course plenty of mistakes were made, but one mechanic I think I dont quite understand is healing during story mode. Can any priest type just spam heal the entire party once you get into story mode? There seems to be no mechanical reason not to... or am I missing something. If they can, I think it takes a great deal away from the warhammer world and makes it more akin to an MMO... can anyone point me in the right direction here?
Healing
There was a discussion about this already, here is a link to it - there are a couple of different opinions in the thread but I like mine the best =P
I liked the "one heal per wound" idea... I have discussed it with some of our group, and we may combine it with you can only heal as many times a day as your WP... Its still in the works though... thanx
NP, I figured the thread might give some insight - btw did you get your name from "Watership Down"?
FWIW, my group and I tried out the game for a marathon session this past weekend and took a 'story mode is for story' approach. The only thing allowed during story mode was long term healing. It worked out well and there was no need to 'spam heals'. One of our players, unfortunately, is an 'I dont move until i'm at full health' kind of player (one of THOSE). He took some nudging, but it really wasnt necessary.
Relying more on skills rather than healing spells was very liberating and didn't make a priest a 'must have' class.
On the other hand, our group consisted of an apprentice bright wizard, a dwarf slayer, and a soldier. So much of the combat was VERY fast and the group didnt sustain 'too' much damage (other than the troll slayer, who played a suicidal dwarf to a 'T'). The poor soldier seemed to be a 3rd wheel.
Yup... definately my homage to watership down.
About the other idea though, I think that has merit too. Ill run it by everyone and see what comes of it. Maybe make a hybrid of both...