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Message: <blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 3878487" data-attributes="member: 22162">On one hand you have making nice with the cleric's deity, and on the other you have actively opposing (either intentionally or not) the cleric's deity. I'd seriously consider penalizing a PC who healed up an enemy of his church/deity (say, a priest of Heironeous healing up the rogue who worships Hextor) if there wasn't good reason, but then again I always stress party cohesion above inter-party conflict, so I'd not expect such a case to come up.[As an aside, I encourage the PCs to worship the same deity by making healing spells for members of the same faith be automatically maximized.] I remember a group I gamed with years ago who all played chaotic characters. I played a LN cleric. After several near-disasters resulting from the lack of any battle plan -- hey, let's just rush headlong into battle and not help each other out -- I decided my cleric's logical response would be to try using threat of withholding healing to get the party to act in a more orderly and unified manner. I even went so far as to suggest making a game plan for combat and establishing standard tactics. I also made the other players profess the greatness of my god before receiving healing. They all started using their cut of the loot for healing potions after that.I also recall actually withholding healing from one player on one occasion. His PC had set a building on fire while we were in it -- he had the ability to summon and bind elementals and demon spirits, and had bound a spirit of fire to his sword -- and we spent several minutes running around a burning building looking for treasure and/or the way out. He was burned as a result, and I refused to heal his burn damage.I consider all the above perfectly reasonable, given the situation. YMMV.</blockquote>

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