Silvercrow

Excellent hack, I enjoyed it. The third tale was definitely the most interesting (and frustrating).

I would say it depends on the chapter and on your other units. If it's an earlygame chapter where you'll normally only have Clerics/Troubadours healing you, two healers is a definite plus. Later in the game I would say it becomes less useful though, since your offensive magic units will be gaining access to staves as well, even if it's just a basic heal stave, in which case I would normally run only one character more focused on healing. It also just depends on the game, some are easy to the point where even on the more difficult modes having extra healers in many chapters is almost redundant. In general though there's not much of a disadvantage to having a second one, in a lot of cases you don't need as many slots as the game gives you on offensive units.

Yea, it sounds to me like the game just resets the RNs when you start a new game, and since there's really only one good way to proceed in the prologue for the most part people are scoring that crit in the same place. Chapter 1 is a bit more open so I'd think that the numbers begin to diverge in different playthroughs there. Did you try wasting RNs before going through the prologue? EDIT: I wasted 3 RNs and a different string of events occured, although trying it twice, the exact same string happened both times when the same amount of RNs were wasted.