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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haffrung Helleyes" data-source="post: 2701613" data-attributes="member: 1068">sorcerers and healingI'm one of the players in the group in question.  And my PC (a goblin rogue) just got turned to stone by a cockatrice ;-)I will point out a couple of reasons that I would be reticent to play a cleric in ForceUser's game:1) all clerics in his game have to have Grace... ie, they're effectively held to the standards of a Paladin, from what I can tell.1) He has very strong ideas about the nature of Grace, and what's involved in being good, and I don't agree with all of them.  I would expect conflict with the DM because of this, and I don't want this.3) I prefer to play the antihero, rather than the hero.  For me,  it's more interesting to play Han Solo , who has to think about whether he'll do the right thing, than Luke Skywalker, for whom it comes naturally.4) As ForceUser noted, I'm an Atheist.  My D&D worldview tends to think of Gods as really big spirits, or people who achieved great power, rather than idealized, perfect beings who don't make mistakes.  I view gods more in the Greek/Hindu vein (IE, you worship them for favor and power) rather than in the Judeo-Christian vein (you worship them out of devotion).  Some of this is influenced by real life conversations;  I travel a lot, and I spent an afternoon outside the Kali temple in Kathmandu once asking the worshippers why they worshipped Kali.  "For Power", was the general response.  In a polytheistic society, where the gods are not uniform in their opinion or will, I would expect this to be normal.There are a couple of good healer possibilities for someone like me in a game like this.  One is the Spirit Shaman, and the other is the Archivist.  We already had a spirit shaman, who got killed.  I'd consider playing an Archivist, but ForceUser doesn't have Heroes of Horror, and only wants us playing classes from books that he owns.I would point out one thing -- all of us are having tons of fun.  ForceUser is a great DM, and I don't think any of us mind terribly that we are 'levelling in reverse'.Ken</blockquote>

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