septemVII - 9/18/2006 1:55 PMVershanon 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...
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*
septemVII - 9/18/2006 1:55 PM Saving someone from certain death is quite another thing.
darkstorme - 9/18/2006 6:29 PMQuoteseptemVII - 9/18/2006 1:55 PMVershanon 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...... and say, for example, that the individual you "helped" was going through a rite of passage for the culture in which he grew up? Or had a sense of pride that was crucial to his sense of self? You might have invalidated the rite, or wounded his pride, in which case he might be devastated - or vengeful. Acts of kindness are all well and good, but there's a difference between providing help when it is clearly needed or requested, or providing help on a whim. The latter is at best uncomfortable, and at worst, a deadly insult. Vershanon may have had good intentions, but in that case, there's a ta'nari paving company that'd like to contract with her.QuoteIn 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*A priest of Deliar might very well 'advertise'. Others might prosteletize, or evangelize, but they're just as likely to give a blessing and be on their way. Not all gods take the aggressive, evangelical path to grow their follower base.Regardless, unasked-for, possibly unnecessary magic is likely (or should, at any rate) to earn emnity or distaste from those upon whom (or on whose behalf) it is practiced. Saving someone from certain death is quite another thing, of course. But unasked-for help is a 50/50 proposition, with regards to the response of the helped individual.
septemVII - 9/19/2006 10:41 PMAll I was trying to point out though is if you "were" antisocial, you probibly wouldn't bother healing in the first place.If someone heals, that is a social act. If someone dosen't talk that is an antisocial act.So someone who heals but dosen't talk, is well, social and antisocial which I don't think is possible.
This is one of those topics that several people usually jump in on to defend their particular actions in some particular situation, feeling that it is personally directed at them. Since "not at full health" does not necessarily mean "near death," and it was mentioned that the person being healed was obviously engaged in some kind of roleplay, I'll just assume this was not a case of someone standing around chatting about the weather with their intestines around their ankles... which usually gets a quick heal and an edging away from the clearly insane guy. Or is a dwarf... does that fall under the masochism?