You do at your table what you and your players enjoy. I think thats something everyone knows and agrees upon in general anyway. Its just that people enjoy different approaches to their hobby and thats what always leads to a bit of discourse. :)
I did read about Dave, he sounds like an ass, no one at my table is a "Dave", nor do I think all people who value optimization, or the challenge of wringing unintended utility out of the rules of the game as written are necessarily "Daves".
You do realize that I brought up Dave specifically because you're reminding me of him with this whole thing from the start, right? And I also stated in the same paragraph that I would optimize my own characters when he was DMing, specifically because everything he did even as DM was munchkinized? A lot of the time this was fun, but other times it was just annoying, and you're taking the concept to another level here. I played with Dave in 3.5e, where your "simple" formula would be complex in comparison to the ruleset that was extremely streamlined to get 5e. You are explicitly asking a DM to do a lot more work and slow down the game (not to mention set up a freaking spreadsheet to consult during all this) just to get extra "utility" out of a spell in a way that isn't even that effective in the first place as you're "one simple trick" still takes two full actions and leaves your lifesuck-o-matic necrohealer low on HP and vulnerable to getting picked off for a full turn after casting life transference, assuming you don't down yourself with that by rolling high, before you can drain more life from a dead corpse that you expect the DM to be paying attention to instead of checking it off his/her notes in the first place.
While Dave would be all for the convoluted nature of this, he would probably come up with some other way to argue for a similarly unbalanced effect that was never intended that would involve fewer actions and not possibly killing his own character in the process. Seeing you go on like this makes me seriously consider looking Dave up on Facebook and apologizing for comparing him to you because even he would probably criticize your bad style. And I would have to make a new Facebook account to do that, since I said F-all to the thing several years ago.
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You do at your table what you and your players enjoy. I think thats something everyone knows and agrees upon in general anyway. Its just that people enjoy different approaches to their hobby and thats what always leads to a bit of discourse. :)
You do realize that I brought up Dave specifically because you're reminding me of him with this whole thing from the start, right? And I also stated in the same paragraph that I would optimize my own characters when he was DMing, specifically because everything he did even as DM was munchkinized? A lot of the time this was fun, but other times it was just annoying, and you're taking the concept to another level here. I played with Dave in 3.5e, where your "simple" formula would be complex in comparison to the ruleset that was extremely streamlined to get 5e. You are explicitly asking a DM to do a lot more work and slow down the game (not to mention set up a freaking spreadsheet to consult during all this) just to get extra "utility" out of a spell in a way that isn't even that effective in the first place as you're "one simple trick" still takes two full actions and leaves your lifesuck-o-matic necrohealer low on HP and vulnerable to getting picked off for a full turn after casting life transference, assuming you don't down yourself with that by rolling high, before you can drain more life from a dead corpse that you expect the DM to be paying attention to instead of checking it off his/her notes in the first place.
While Dave would be all for the convoluted nature of this, he would probably come up with some other way to argue for a similarly unbalanced effect that was never intended that would involve fewer actions and not possibly killing his own character in the process. Seeing you go on like this makes me seriously consider looking Dave up on Facebook and apologizing for comparing him to you because even he would probably criticize your bad style. And I would have to make a new Facebook account to do that, since I said F-all to the thing several years ago.