> >> one annoyingly self-righteous Chalanan you
> >> have to keep preventing from healing the enemy!
>
> /// Well you can't prevent her doing that can you?
> /// Otherwise she pouts and you keep bleeding and hurting.
>
> I like the approach taken by Elmal in the Chalana heroquest in King of
> Dragon
> Pass if you give one of the wrong answers: it would be wrong to hurt the
> healer,
> but I can't let her leave, so I'll just roll her up in this convenient
> carpet
> and carry her back home. An adventuring party could do the same:
> immobilize the
> healer until all the enemy are confirmed dead, and only then let her out,
> at
> which point she is forced by her vows to heal you anyway. It could almost
> be a
> running gag, like BA's fear of flying in "The A-Team".
>
>
Chalana Arroy (there is not goddess Chalana) has an obligation to heal
everyone.
However, most of them do not have the power or energy to heal everyone all
the time.
She is not expected to trade her life for another.
She is often forced to choose who gets her best power, her greatest healing.
The choices are entirely hers--presumably based on her messages from Chalana
Arroy herself--the healign power tells her where it wants to go
Of course, unless she is a devotee, totally subject to the Power, her
personal choices can enter. They might. Maybe they are not supposed to, but
they often do.
Even if she is a devotee, the relationship between her divinity--the part that heals--and those who will be healed will influence who gets healed first, and how much.
If I prevented a Healer with a sacred obligation to heal,
by a band of brutes who use physical force (possibly injuring her in the
process!)
and a quite insulting manner (rolled into a carpet!)
then I would be very, very worried about being healed when I needed it.
--
Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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