So, Staff of Healing . . .

My party just got a hold of one of these and it brought up some issues I really hadn't thought through:

1. It has no charges and can be healed an apparently unlimited number of people per day, but each person can only be healed once per day.  Do you guys treat this as the ability to literally heal entire armies?

2. How does this affect a cleric's ability to increase their congregation size through charitable casting?  Obviously, there's only so many individuals in a community that needs to have hitpoints healed on any given day.

If it can literally heal an unlimited number of people per day it seems drastically underpriced at 22500 gp.

 

2: I dont really think it affects charitable casting as the the cleric isnt casting anything, he is using a magical item. Pretty much similar reason why you cant gain congregations though the use of the healing proficiency. Think there was a topic about that on this forum some time ago.

[quote="thirdkingdom"] If it can literally heal an unlimited number of people per day it seems drastically underpriced at 22500 gp. [/quote]

It can't literally heal an unlimited number of people - at one person per round, it can heal no more than 8,640 people in a 24 hour period, assuming each injured person is within one round's walking distance of the next.

But yes, you could theoretically use this to heal your entire army.

Incidentally, where did you get that 22,500 gp figure from?

http://www.autarch.co/forums/ask-autarchs/magical-item-prices

[quote="GMJoe"]

It can't literally heal an unlimited number of people - at one person per round, it can heal no more than 8,640 people in a 24 hour period, assuming each injured person is within one round's walking distance of the next.

But yes, you could theoretically use this to heal your entire army.

Incidentally, where did you get that 22,500 gp figure from?

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Ah, but then we'll have people stand on either side of the staff so he can poke one person on the outstroke and poke the person behind him with the instroke.  Next thing you know we're doing a middle-out algorithm :-P

(it's a silicon valley joke for those unfamiliar)

Can a healer cleave if he heals the patient to full HP?