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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 189086" data-attributes="member: 633">Hm. That's complex. The king has all the rights to ask that you leave your weapons at the door. You are a guest, even if he has called for you. He is going to ask for your help, but he is not a beggar. By refusing to leave your weapons, you show that you don't trust him, and that's a major offense.Then, however, he attempted to use magic on you, a powerful priest and probably a political force to begin with, and that's an even worse offense that, had you been an ambassador from a not-too-friendly foreign country, could have meant the start of a war.Then, he had you apologise to him, and that's reasonable.Then, he had you apologise to the guards, and that's again very offensive. Finally, his guards slapped you and he banished you from his presence. That's bad. If the guards weren't explicitly told to slap you but did so as their initiative, and the king didn't punish them for it, it's worse - not as bad as casting a spell on you, but it's close.Overall, you started it, but this king must not be very good at diplomatics. He reacted extremely badly, tried to use magic on you, and had you humiliated by underlings. And he was seeking help from you.If I was the DM, your church would give you some words for having been disrespectful to the king, and then demand public apologies from the king, a sizeable compense for the humiliation you suffered, and (possibly, depends on alignment) the heads of the guards on a silver plate. Oh, and there's no way you get the permission to help this tyrant wannabe unless he pulls out some major money for it and promises to lower the taxes for your church for the next century or so.For the undead thing, well, there are instances where you don't immediately see that one is undead. Having the battle be impossible unless you figure out that she is undead is nasty but legit. If you really had no way of knowing that she was undead - especially if custom-made antidetection spells or items were involved - that's nasty AND unfair. The DM can't assume that you will cast a heal spell on an enemy without apparent reason.</blockquote>

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