So a couple of years ago my wife and I opened a game shop in San Diego and I noticed it was really hard to get new players; they were really into the idea of playing D&D but didn't want to buy the book right away. D&D really can be a time consuming game to learn and kind of scares off a lot of new players in my opinion. Daily I talk to people that say, I always wanted to play but don't know where to start". There are so many other options for games to play from TCG's, board games to even table top war games that are easier to learn. About six months ago I decided to write and design 40 page printed book, a simple reference guide that I could give to new players at our game shop for free. I'm also going to release the digital PDF copy of it to the internet for free. I'm planing on putting it up on my google drive for anyone in the world to download for free. I personally hate having to give my personal information to download something for free.

So my question is for the mods here. The book will be finished by next week and I wanted to know if I could post the google drive link here. The book is free, I'm making NO money from it, there is no hidden advertisements to Kraken Dice, just me designing and writing a book to share with the community to give something back that I think is needed.

I have plans for a big boss battle that includes 4 guards, an elite guard, and a huge “Devil of temptation” (it’s more gross than sexy, but still)

I just don’t know what kind of summonable minions to use for the big fat demon boss or what stat sheets to use for the boss or minions!

I’m thinking of taking the skills from this stat sheet for the big boss and just reworking them to make sense… but like, I can’t find any stat sheets that seem to work for the minions

Would ooze minions be enough for a party of 4 level 7 players??

I know at 9th level Wish lets you, but a 9th level wizard is so rare it can basically not exist in-world.

I know the balance reason is for clerics to be more appealing but that is not in-universe. There is no rule made by Ao that says sorry wizards can't heal lol.

I was just imagining a silly scenario. A wizard able to cast like 8th level spells. Incredibly powerful magic. They can travel miles away instantly or decimate entire armies with a spell. But they can't mend their stubbed toe?

They spen't hours pouring over ancient texts of arcane lore and knowledge, but did not once go over a healing spell? Does't seem likely that they wouldn't know about or be interested in such magic. Since they are supposed to be smart they would know having an emergency healing spell would be super useful.

So what is the in-Faerun reason for not having such spells? Forbidden by gods? Jealiously guarded by Clerics? Seen as inferior by wizards and not used out of arrogance?

Divine magic and Arcane magic used to be separate types of magic but it is now the same. So why haven't wizards learned to heal yet?

While watching several videos about wizards one thing kept coming up. Healing and wizards lack of ability to do so. I've been messing around a bit with D&D beyond and decided to make a wizard on there.

It only gave me one sub class option the Invoker so I pick my only option.

After picking a Acolyte background it brings me to a something called a Magic Initiate.

It asks me to choose Int. Cha or Wis.

I picked Int and was able to pick three spells

I immediately see

Guidance

Spare the dying(feels healing adjacent)

Mending

Cure Wounds

Healing Word

among the spells available. Am I missing something? The very first class I look into immediately gives me all kinds of healing options and If I had to guess I'd say other sub classes of Wizard probably have access to the same spells.

The people I hear say wizards can't heal say it like its just a common understood fact. So what's the deal? Is D&D beyond just giving me options that I shouldn't be able to pick or what?