Defintion of Creature and Enemy

[DracoSuave]

Okay.
1) I don't allow anything from the FR books because I hate FR with a passion, hence no Dark Pact Warlocks in my game.
2) You can be absolutely sure no player playing a defiler like this would ever love me :.

1) Dark pact Warlock's only Forgotten Realmyness is that it happened to be introduced in a Forgotten REalm book. It actually has little 'This is so FR' flavor. You know this because it's not a 30th level wizard who solves everyone's problems for them.

I dislike FR as well, with a passion. But the Dark Pact, and Swordmage aren't anything even remotely Forgotten Realms, in the same sense as Warforged and Dragonmarks are distinctly Eberron. There's literally no attachment to forgotten realms flavor. They are concepts that didn't exist before the fourth edition timeshift, and they have no explanation that involves what happened after the timeshift. Contrast with Spellscarred--that IS a Forgotten Realms thing.

2_ Of course not, but that comes down to the rule itself. Only a DM can properly adjudicate it. Players can't decide who trusts them enough, only a DM can. But the players can certainly try. I have no problem with players using healing powers on people, it requires so little effort to rp out that it's not a huge rules snag.

But, it's there fore the cases where being an ally is negative, or to prevent excluding non-teammates from effects that really are only supposed to work on teammates. So, as a DM, I can make that call.

 

[RigaMortus2]

Yup, and the Cleric player will probably tell me to go look for new players - and rightly so!

The cleric gets to choose who he considers to be allies and who not when using the power. Everything else would be stupid.

The Cleric may decide who he thinks his ally is, but that target also has the choice to determine if the Cleric is an ally as well (which is usually up to the DM since we are mostly talking about NPCs here).

You may say "You're my friend" and I in turn can so "No I'm not." or, more to the point, "But you are not my friend." Which one trumps the other?

 

[DracoSuave]

The Cleric may decide who he thinks his ally is, but that target also has the choice to determine if the Cleric is an ally as well (which is usually up to the DM since we are mostly talking about NPCs here).

You may say "You're my friend" and I in turn can so "No I'm not." or, more to the point, "But you are not my friend." Which one trumps the other?

The latter. If I go 'I am not your friend' then you can't make the case that I am either willing or that I am your teammate. Thusly, I cannot be your ally.

In the case of a dying villager, however, 'I am going to heal you' can be a very effective argument towards starting a new friendship.