[quote=@Hyyde322]I also wanted to get everyone's opinion, I'm remaking my character to be a barbarian. Should I make an npc healer we could all control, or do you guys think we'll be fine without one?[/quote]
If anything, in a narrative game, it’s better not to have major healing magic. It muddies the stakes because it takes away our ability to concretely understand how bad of a state the characters are in. Some minor healing ability from Gideon, to reduce the downtime of injured characters without significantly altering the stakes, seems ideal.

And for the record, if [@Imbion] joins, we’ll have eight players, which [@Hyyde322] said would be the maximum.