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[anghraine]

I’m playing baby’s first tabletop D&D game (not technically the first, but the first I’ve lasted more than two sessions for) and at level 3, my lawful good cleric got turned into a werewolf.

At first I was just >_<, but now I'm like... storytelling opportunity!!!

And then I had a really great night on Saturday. I mean, in part because I had plenty to do, and in part because there was a new character (a paladin, which made my lawful good cleric’s pupils turn to hearts), but also because I, a fourth-level healer, managed to deliver the killing blow to a fire elemental by attacking it for twenty points of damage.

Inflict Wounds, baby. :D

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[sciatrix]

Oh hey, nice! (I have followed you for aaaaages and don't know if you remember me--different fandoms for a long period of time, basically--but I've been playing a D&D cleric too for a campaign for a few weeks now and now I'm all excited.)

My party is a pack of very squishy and morally ambiguous bards, magic users, and one barbarian tank, and my cleric (who oscillates between all quadrants between lawful/neutral good/neutral as she constantly questions what good even means anyway--think Chidi if he could make decisions and doubt himself after the fact) keeps finding herself going "Uh.... guys... could we maybe not... kill that sorcerer now that we have her rendered unconscious with the city watch on the way?" and "did you seriously cast Charm Person on a hysterical and sobbing nineteen-year-old NPC" and "please don't eat that corpse?"

So a paladin to be Lawful-Good-not-Lawful-Stupid alongside sounds like a beautiful dream, is what I'm saying. Ha.

Inflict Wounds is the most beautiful spell, especially for a healer, because who else knows the body well enough to know where to inflict 'em best?

[anghraine]

I do remember you! I followed you during ace discourse hell, iirc, and then was like... this other stuff is interesting too.

"Uh.... guys... could we maybe not... kill that sorcerer now that we have her rendered unconscious with the city watch on the way?" and "did you seriously cast Charm Person on a hysterical and sobbing nineteen-year-old NPC" and "please don't eat that corpse?"

Haha, that sounds very familiar! (Okay, except the last.) Mine is also a vacillator, though she's pretty firmly lawful good within those limits.

So a paladin to be Lawful-Good-not-Lawful-Stupid alongside sounds like a beautiful dream, is what I'm saying.

Yes! She's the DM's character, too, so she's like a personal gift. :D

Inflict Wounds is the most beautiful spell, especially for a healer, because who else knows the body well enough to know where to inflict 'em best?

Right???

[sciatrix]

My partner has chosen to play a half-orc/half-human barbarian who is not super bright and sincerely convinced he's a great bard, too. (He is not.) He doesn't have a corpse-eating taboo, which caused some unexpected conflict when my DM helpfully threw a corpse into the mix on first meeting, combined with sleep deprivation and everyone having a Very Bad Night.

...it wound up being less "please don't eat that corpse" and more "I cast Command to send Kronk into the hall and he crit fails his wisdom save."

Aren't vacillators fun, though? Is your paladin going to stick around, or is she more of a temporary NPC?

[anghraine]

LOLOLOL, that sounds amazing. I really want to find some creative ways to use Command. :D

The paladin passed on to further quests, unfortunately, though it's entirely possible that she could return.

[makamu]

It's a beautiful feeling when the dice and the story both deliver like that, isn't?

I have been playing RPGs (mostly Pathfinder and DnD) for nigh on forever, but am just now getting around to GM'ing my first campaign, so I am glad to hear stories of someone new getting into the hobby :)

[anghraine]

It really is!

And thanks :)