davidb
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Post by davidb on Dec 12, 2008 16:53:27 GMT -5
If my lawful good cleric sees a man being seriously wounded while fighting monsters, he will heal him. Most likely he will RP and speak a little, but that's hardly the point. If you feel you can't stand this offense and attack him, you're welcome *flexes muscles*.
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Post by driderman on Dec 12, 2008 17:05:34 GMT -5
If my lawful good cleric sees a man being seriously wounded while fighting monsters, he will heal him. Most likely he will RP and speak a little, but that's hardly the point. If you feel you can't stand this offense and attack him, you're welcome *flexes muscles*. No offense, but this is a rather annoying attitude (so is "I punch people who heal me" I suppose : , whatever your class or alignment you really shouldn't force such a situation on other players. As I see it, you're intruding on my personal space (using myself as example) by running up to me in a fight and starting to chant and touch me. I'd think most people would be at the least uncomfortable with that and I can certainly imagine some reacting with a prompt swing of the blade when some random stranger runs at them chanting magics.
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Post by broham2 on Dec 12, 2008 17:35:40 GMT -5
If my lawful good cleric sees a man being seriously wounded while fighting monsters, he will heal him. Most likely he will RP and speak a little, but that's hardly the point. If you feel you can't stand this offense and attack him, you're welcome *flexes muscles*. Lol, for the record, if anyone wants to randomly heal me because I look near death, by all means do so... I won't stab you until well after the fact, when your back is turned. Ha ha. Seriously though it all comes with RP. You cant expect someone who IS here to RP to RP a pansy do gooder when that isnt the concept the player has for the character. And it works both ways. If I am playing a priest of Ilmater and come across someone near death, its my responsibility to heal them.. even if they do turn around and smack me for it. I understand that we are RP-Medium, however the way I see it is if you start to interact with me you have initiated the RP. And besides, you dont actually die from PvP here.
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Post by highwayman on Dec 12, 2008 18:39:12 GMT -5
I have a crazy priest (cn) that will do this. But much of it is based on how I'm feeling at the moment. But on topic, I'm not an rp nazi-and I'd have to say in character or not people who heal without asking have saved my dwarf quite a few times and I appreciate it with the ecl and crazy xp loss at higher levels. I left an rp heavy server because the restrictions were completely absurd. Not my style, but I think it depends on what kind of pnp Dm you're used to playing with. With mine, ooc wise cracks were part of the main draw of 6 hour sessions.
Different strokes.
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Post by DM Sir Carnifex on Dec 12, 2008 18:55:18 GMT -5
I don't mind ninja-healers so long as they RP it out. The ones that run up, then run away without saying a word give me the impression it's just a part of everyday routine. It won't hurt people to take a couple of seconds to say "You're hurt. Let me heal you." or something along those lines. I left an rp heavy server because the restrictions were completely absurd. Not my style, but I think it depends on what kind of pnp Dm you're used to playing with. With mine, ooc wise cracks were part of the main draw of 6 hour sessions. Different strokes. The town crier sometimes has humorous things to shout out around here. ;D
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mrdeadman
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Post by mrdeadman on Dec 12, 2008 19:38:41 GMT -5
Again, people are taking their own assumption with this. I never said someone "near death" . I said someone Injured. I don't expect a LG cleric to see someone bleeding to death on the side of the road and not heal him. I also don't expect them to notice the hangnail I have under my gauntlets and run over casting like I would die in two seconds if they didn't.
As for saying something and then just healing, I would prefer if someone asked first and actually waited for a response before just going ahead and doing so.
I know I'm sounding like a jerk and heavy RP'er, but really I'm not. The DM's on the RP server I was playing on before this had me pegged as a powergamer and not into RP. So, Sorry for sounding that way. I have been playing D&D for a long... LONG time and yes, at the table the wisecracks flow like dwarven ale. There are just somethings everyone has issues with and this is one for me.
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Post by Forumlord of Talos on Dec 12, 2008 19:54:22 GMT -5
The key statement here is " as long as you Rp it"
Sorry folks running up ninja healing and then running away is not role play. Such an act borders on being no better then someone who is farming and ninja jumping your kills before running off.
I don't care if some of you want to be Power lvl your characters Farm like its a WOW server etc. But every time you interact in anyway with another person you have entered an Rp scenario and should be played out.
My druid Kahai for example is a feral hin who sees personal combat as a show of dominance over her prey. Someone ninja healing her would be an affront to her beliefs. Not only have you insulted her and likely spooked her into hostility if she doesn't know you. But by running away and failing to role play it you have also for a brief moment taking my character out of her role play by putting her in a situation she cannot react to as you have left.
Thus in a brief instance you would have ruined my personal Rp enjoyment.
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Post by Erulaan D'Anhoor on Dec 12, 2008 20:08:14 GMT -5
So, if random acts of healing are allowed, then random acts of violence is ok as well right?
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Post by wildelf on Dec 13, 2008 0:53:28 GMT -5
The Watcher is always watching...
---------------------------------------------- He sees you when you're friendly... He knows when you're a fake... He knows if you are bashed real good... So be good for healing's sake. ---------------------------------------------- ^ Inspire Holiday Reference
He also has a serious obsessive problem about leaving wounded people, largely attributable to the Good domain choice. There's not much that can stop him from healing someone who is Injured unless he knows the person could harm him, another, or is just downright evil.
Of course, he'll always RP it out to some extent. Being an apparent xenophobe, he won't stay to talk long, but he'll probably say something like "The Watcher is always Watching" and leave a note that says "The Watcher was here." In actuality, I think that the interesting character of The Watcher is a major reason why this thread was made...
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Post by sen on Dec 15, 2008 8:30:26 GMT -5
I think it comes down to the point: When healing someone, do a bit of roleplay too. He might or might not thank you for it or even smack you because he´s feeling insulted, but that´s ok. Basically, roleplay is also about being angry at other characters. Just don´t make the mistake and make player with character equal.
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Post by vaden on Dec 18, 2008 11:17:20 GMT -5
Just so you all know, if you see any of my characters about to die... then PLEASE heal me!!! mrdeadman can be a dead man.... for the sake of RP - DON'T HEAL HIM!!! But I want to live!!! HEAL ME!!!
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Post by DM Sir Carnifex on Dec 18, 2008 12:57:01 GMT -5
Just so you all know, if you see any of my characters about to die... then PLEASE heal me!!! mrdeadman can be a dead man.... for the sake of RP - DON'T HEAL HIM!!! But I want to live!!! HEAL ME!!! Even if we happen to playing a PC who doesn't care if you die?
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Post by lorgin2003 on Dec 18, 2008 14:49:51 GMT -5
the way i figure, if someone wants to heal me, cool. it saves me having to use healing supplies, which saves me on gold. i mean, it isn't like you're coming up and beating me down so that the monster can kill me off. in fact, it's the exact opposite. i ain't going to complain about someone helping me.
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mrdeadman
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Post by mrdeadman on Dec 18, 2008 18:57:32 GMT -5
Just so you all know, if you see any of my characters about to die... then PLEASE heal me!!! mrdeadman can be a dead man.... for the sake of RP - DON'T HEAL HIM!!! But I want to live!!! HEAL ME!!! Yet one more person that obviously can't read. Once again, I never said near death, I said INJURED. And yes, if I'm just injured, don't heal me, I'd rather be an RP'er than an OOC metagaimg coward.
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Post by wildelf on Dec 19, 2008 0:09:44 GMT -5
So if my character sees someone being struck by a creature and that person is injured, appears to be flagging, and has bloody clothes, it's metagaming to assume he's wounded? Barely Injured...a character with low Spot might miss it. On Injured, it's hard to miss the blood even with no Spot. On Badly Wounded, there's no way you can miss the wounds.
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