Author Topic: How not to play a healing-spellcaster in 5 easy steps (Read 3925 times)

lonnarin · « **Reply #20 on:** May 29, 2006, 03:09:33 AM »

Salt has wonderful coagulative properties... come here you! *shakes some into the gaping wounds*

Hmmm, seems infected. Let's have the dog have a lick at it!

P.S. Ninjas do not heal, they commit acts of Seppuku or Euthanasia.

darkstorme · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2006, 07:37:49 AM »

"Commit acts of Seppuku"? Euthanasia would be a mercy killing. Seppuku == Hara-kiri == ritual suicide. And besides, this is the Ninja Healer. A horse of a different colour altogether from your traditional ninja. (As an aside, I'm particularly fond of the euphanism used by Terry Pratchett's Assassin Guild: Inhume.)

It's like the anti-thief. He stops people in dark alleys, and forces them at knifepoint to accept sums of money.

Hellblazer · « **Reply #22 on:** June 09, 2006, 10:43:11 PM »

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Reventage - 5/23/2006 8:53 PM

Unless your character has a masochistic streak or is utterly unable to rely on the help of others, the next time you enter a town while bleeding from numerous wounds try hollering for help the moment you are trough the gates.

I usualy rp my characters wound, to badly hurt = falls on the ground, poisoned = coughs, but lately with his amnesia some dorment side of him woke up, and the liking of pain is one of them =P

Slade8833 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 29, 2006, 10:57:22 PM »

bad thing about the all friendly thing in towns

personaly if im sitting there witha big cut and someone walks up to me and starts jibbering words that i dont know and thir hands start glowing im gonna hit them with my sword..

no way am i gonna let someone i dont know cast anything on me for all i know they could see me as easy injured pray and be planing on killing me with some spell

darkstorme · « **Reply #24 on:** July 31, 2006, 07:21:56 AM »

If someone comes at you, hands glowing, you'd probably be more likely to run than to hit the person bedecked in who knows what kind of defensive magics. But be that as it may, your character would likely recognize a priest and a healing spell if they'd ever had one cast on them before - and if your character had been around Hlint for more than a RL week (nearly 4 months in-game), they'd be used to the general friendliness in-town. Paranoid xenophobes generally learn to relax around Hlint, though Kell is still a bit jumpy at the number of Drow resident in the town.

MasterOfMuppets · « **Reply #25 on:** July 31, 2006, 08:23:24 AM »

ninja doctors would be fun.

its not that im not used to the friendliness in town, the town isnt used to the trouble im causing. on several occasion i have run into town badly wounded being chased by anything from rats to an orc archer...no one has gotten hurt...yet.

Weeblie · « **Reply #26 on:** July 31, 2006, 08:54:20 AM »

Ah, I have to point out that it's against the server rules to run into towns with monsters trailing after one...

darkstorme · « **Reply #27 on:** July 31, 2006, 09:33:18 AM »

And, in fact, it's for that very reason - even a higher level character who would normally be able to handle whatever you're trailing behind you might be caught AFK and possibly lose a Soul Strand, which is a colossal headache for the DMs.... add to that the other low-levels who have to deal with it, and the oxen that could be killed, and you create a huge mess - all of which is why using area transitions as escape plans, and using NPCs as your monster killers, is against server rules.

MasterOfMuppets · « **Reply #28 on:** July 31, 2006, 10:19:05 AM »

i dont do it on purpose ok. i kill it if it follows if i can. and i dont even run away into cities anymore so i stopped.

CHAzz · « **Reply #29 on:** September 16, 2006, 04:37:09 PM »

being wounded, and having a complete stranger walk up to you and start waving their hands around, muttering strange words, and pointing in your direction sounds pretty much like a threat to me. Chances are I'm going to scream like a little girl and try to run away.

Stephen_Zuckerman · « **Reply #30 on:** September 16, 2006, 05:29:26 PM »

More like make an attack of opportunity. Sneak Attack, if at all possible.

Drizzlin · « **Reply #31 on:** September 17, 2006, 09:23:29 AM »

You are right...

I guess you could add what I do as a cleric to the list too...

*party memeber is almost dead, looks to my cleric and expects a heal*

*Daralith looks to them and smirks* "That is not my problem...." *walks away*

lonnarin · « **Reply #32 on:** September 17, 2006, 01:18:25 PM »

Just so you know, my Grand-worshipping Orc cleric Heals people by SCREAMING at their fleshwounds and showing them FEAR so that they close on their own before the patient gets any better. You probably don't want to be raised any either...

SuperMunch · « **Reply #33 on:** September 17, 2006, 02:17:21 PM »

Lonnarin wins the thread.

darkstorme · « **Reply #34 on:** September 18, 2006, 09:47:58 AM »

Divine intimidation as healing magic. Unique.

cbnicholson · « **Reply #35 on:** September 18, 2006, 10:38:56 AM »

I'm guilty of this, but trying to wean myself off of it.

He he. I look at it as a random act of kindness.

septemVII · « **Reply #36 on:** September 18, 2006, 10:55:56 AM »

Vershanon saw a guy tanking like 5 Red Light goblens, to her Red Light Goblens are Formittable, so she decided to drop a well placed sleep spell, 5 coup de grace's later she asked if he was okay, he responded yes, we go our seperate ways...

I agree that some character might be anti-social as stated above, but clerics are at the bottom of that list. Cleric's can't afford to be anti-social, unless they are clerics of Sylvanus, but this isn't the realms...

In fact, if I was playing a cleric I would take a little time for advertisment, tell him something like: Healee: Hey thanks for the Help there. Cleric: Not a problem at all, don't forget to attend the Festival of Wealth over at the temple of Deliar, should be worth your time. Healee: thanks I'll look into it! Cleric: *Bow*

DMOE · « **Reply #37 on:** September 18, 2006, 11:28:42 AM »

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septemVII - 9/18/2006 6:55 PM Cleric's can't afford to be anti-social, unless they are clerics of Sylvanus, but this isn't the realms... In fact, if I was playing a cleric I would take a little time for advertisment, tell him something like: Healee: Hey thanks for the Help there. Cleric: Not a problem at all, don't forget to attend the Festival of Wealth over at the temple of Deliar, should be worth your time. Healee: thanks I'll look into it! Cleric: *Bow*

Erm...My CN Cleric of Mist can be quite anti-social thank you and it's very IC for her to be so

She will heal you if she feels like and it and watch you bleed if she doesn't.
Well unless you worship Mist....Are a useful tool...Or the rarest of the rare - someone she actually likes (very short list). Then she will heal you regardless.
Maybe this causes her problems...Maybe it doesn't but it's how her character is.
I personally as a player have a real bugbear with people casting healing on others without asking because it's a 'good' spell.

Wraithdur · « **Reply #38 on:** September 18, 2006, 12:40:02 PM »

yup, once i saw a player go behind a GOBLIN (non lawful, generally distrusted) that they DID NOT KNOW, and heal them, the person just wandered offf without having said A SINGLE WORD.............GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
*Wraithdur's brain splatteres over the monitor*

Stephen_Zuckerman · « **Reply #39 on:** September 18, 2006, 01:03:27 PM »

Hear hear on that one, Wraithdur. Jeez. That's like healing a Drow that's locked in combat with the party. *chuckles.*

Remember! Hated races are hated! If you're not planning on healing the attacking NPCs, don't heal the characters who look like them.

Author Topic: How *not* to play a healing-spellcaster in 5 easy steps (Read 3925 times)

Author Topic: How not to play a healing-spellcaster in 5 easy steps (Read 3925 times)