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The Singer of Concordance Prestige Class has a class feature that reads

Aspect of Healing (Su): At 6th level, you become able to call upon your sphere's aspect of healing. This aspect is always active while you are conscious (and the effect moves with you), but not if you are unconscious or dead. Any healing performed within 10 feet of you (and any healing you initiate) cures an additional 1d8 points. Undead within 10 feet of you that are dealt damage by a cure spell take an additional 1d8 points of damage.

I was wondering, what types of healing are affected by this? It specifically mentions cure spells in regards to damaging undead, but it doesn't mention that anywhere else. Are potions affected? Is Fast-Healing affected?

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The supernatural ability aspect of healing possessed by the prestige class Singer of Concordance (Races of the Dragon 91-6) is unclear as to how it's supposed to function. No errata nor Sage Advice discusses the ability. The DM must rule what, exactly, the aspect of healing affects.

House Rules

However, were a Singer of Concordance present in my campaign, unless a compelling case was made otherwise, I'd likely rule that to benefit from the aspect of healing, the healing must be performed—that is, a creature must have taken some kind of action for the aspect's effect to be realized. Hence, I'd allow a creature that, for example, took a standard action to drink a potion of cure light wounds to benefit from the aspect as I would a creature that took a swift action to activate a cloak of predatory vigor (MIC 87), but I would disallow the benefit to extend to, for example, a creature possessing a natural, constant source of fast healing.1

In the case of spells like the 1st-level Clr spell lesser vigor [conj] (Spell Compendium 229), I'd let the initial effect benefit from the aspect—the spell healing an additional 1d8 points of damage and granting fast healing—but the remaining duration would grant only fast healing at the spell's printed rate with no increase from the aspect.

1 That's not because such an effect would be particularly powerful—the typical Singer by the time the aspect of healing's gained is, after all, usually level 11 and can cast heal, for Io's sake!—but simply because that's how I'm reading the limits of the aspect. Your mileage, as always, may vary.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ I agree with your opinions, but they are hardly house rules; they're very straightforward adjudications of the literal meaning of the text. Perhaps there is room for another opinion, but I nonetheless think you should present this answer as an interpretation of RAW. \$\endgroup\$
    – Eikre
    Commented Apr 10, 2016 at 0:04
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Eikre I don't use the term house rules at all pejoratively, and I think the term gets a bad rap. Instead, it's used here (and in every answer I write) as a synonym for This is something that's extrapolated or gleaned from the printed text because the printed text doesn't cover it. I admit, it's a really strict definition of house rules, but I'm okay with it because there are those who believe that any reading that goes beyond printed word text is, in actuality, house rules as another reader may read the same text differently. \$\endgroup\$
    – Hey I Can Chan
    Commented Apr 10, 2016 at 2:12

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