Balketh

A Wizard (Necromancer) who finished medical school without tracking to become a Cleric, their staunch disapproval of the Gods preventing them from ever bending the knee, and never being spiritually open enough to accept the Druidic paths.

They become a Necromancer out of their failure to use arcane magic to heal or raise others, living with a deep disappointment for themselves and their creations, as they hold no misgivings about what they've made or done, rather than the trite disillusion or wilful ignorance that typically comes with these tropes.

They yearn to find a way to heal without requiring the bit and the bridle and the yoke of the Gods. Surely, somewhere in the Arcane, there is a way to knit flesh and bone, to draw the soul back to the body, to restore that which once was, without resorting to this foul mockery of life?

They are also, like most medical professionals I've ever known, grimly practical. Foul mockery of life though they may be, bodies that can't be resurrected/healed aren't really being used by anyone anymore, so why waste them? Maybe there's some rebranding that can be done as well. Get rid of the stigma and all that.

Some great legs on this idea, especially if stepping outside of D&D5e/etc. PF2e would be a GREAT system to explore different directions for this character.

Not just in accessibility and automation, but features that are anywhere from extremely impractical to literally impossible to accurately implement at the table.

Spurred on by the guttering death rattles that emanated from Played my first one-shot tonight in PF2e, after years of D&D5e, and, my fucking god, it was just better, for what D&D5e fails in literally every way.

I played a Skeleton Alchemist Bomber that had all the foulest bombs, AND negative-friendly healing.

His name was E.D. Expiry Date.

Absolute Fuckboy.`

For prepared spell casting.

We collectively moved away from the rigid Vancian spell-slots-hold-a-specific-spell-each-spontaneous-casting-is-a-specific-feature because it's frustratingly tedious. Preparing spells is enough of a pain in the ass, but if you're gonna make me choose each level of each spell each day, I'm just gonna invest heavily in wands and scrolls, because I don't like these arbitrary limits and you've provided me with a way around them.

as focused on the three-point-action economy as PF2e is, wholesale replacing spell slots with points ala 5e's attempted variant is (much like 5e's attempted variant) really gamebreaking.

Which is sad, b/c spellcasting is a HUGE part of these kinds of games, and PF2e does so much better at literally everything else 5e does, it's become my go-to thing whenever I gripe about how things work in 5e:

"Does PF2e do this? Does PF2e do this better?"

Aside from spontaneous spellcasting, the answer has been unequivocally, 'Yes, yes it does.' It's stopped me trying to 'fix' 5e, knowing that in most cases, how I'd try to fix it is how it's fixed in PF2e anyway.