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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stumblewyk" data-source="post: 5985998" data-attributes="member: 67606">3.5e, I'm playing the dutiful party cleric.  Half-orc mind you, but still a good guy.  We've got a new guy sitting in with us - a coworker of the DM's.  He's pretty new to gaming, but loves fantasy, and the DM wanted to give the guy a taste and see if he liked it.  New guy is playing a dual-wielding elf ranger.  Of course he is.  Not Drow thankfully, but might as well have been.  We're exploring a dungeon complex that's recently suffered a moderately violent earthquake, exposing part of it up to the surface.  After a couple fairly standard encounters, we come to a large room with a crack splitting it in half, floor and ceiling.  Laying on the floor is a young bronze dragon, clearly dazed from the earthquake, and wounded.Being color-coded for my convenience and what-not, I'm trying to decide if I should try to approach the thing and offer it some healing.  I'm still holding my bloody falchion at this point, and the new guy's elf apparently decided that enough time has passed and he was getting bored and needed some more XP or something.  So, he shoved me into the room with the bronze dragon.From the bronze dragon's perspective, a group of misfit vagabonds with swords and spells just wandered into the room where it's lying wounded and disoriented.  And then a 6-and-a-half foot tall half-orc comes barreling towards it armed with a bloody falchion.  Logicially, it defended itself from the perceived attack.The party came to my defense, and we were able to defeat the dragon.  Afterward, I pretty laid into that dude like I've never laid into anyone at a game table before.  I told him it wasn't cool to push my PC into the room like that, and he just laughed it off like it was nothing.  So I told him that I hope he didn't need any healing for the rest of the night.  He laughed that off too.We moved on.  A couple encounters go by, and I steadfastly refuse to heal the guy.  He starts getting really upset with me, as he's down around 2 HP or so by this point.  I told him that my cleric of the god of battle decided that his ranger was unworthy of honor or respect due to his prior actions and would not receive the blessings and boons of my god.  I wouldn't sully my hands with such behaviors.Yeah, that did it.Dude LOST it.  Started yelling, screaming, calling me names, whatever.  Needless to say, that kinda ended the night.  He didn't come back.  I didn't want him to.  Could I have acted more maturely?  Yeah, probably.  But if I'm the only thing standing between you and negative HP, I think you should probably think twice before shoving me into the mouth of an angry and confused dragon.</blockquote>

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