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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 1287095" data-attributes="member: 13966">I wish you luck in integrating that player into the group somehow.  The player is just being stubborn and not seeing things clearly because he's defensive about his playing style or something.  Let him make a new character of equal level, but only this once. Something many of the folks arguing his side have ignored is the fact that this guy was a cleric of TORM, and had chosen to take the HEALING domain.  Torm is a lawful good Faerunian deity of paladins and duty.  His dogma preaches that his clerics serve all good people of Faerun dutifully.  The PC in question was playing a cleric of Torm with Healing as one of his domains...  And folks keep seeming to forget all this which JoeGKushner already explained...  The player chose the Healing domain and chose Torm as his patron deity....  Thus, he chose for his cleric's faith to be devoted specifically to Torm's benevolent, helpful, serving-society aspects.  He specifically chose to play the type of cleric that is devoted to helping, protecting, and healing others.  He was not forced into the role.  The DM even provided him an NPC healer cleric to help out and mitigate any healing responsibilities. BUT THE PLAYER HAD SPECIFICALLY CHOSEN TO PLAY A HEALER IN THE FIRST PLACE.  He just didn't want to play it that way.  He could have easily played something else if he had wanted to.  He could have played a cleric of Tempus or something if he didn't want to be a healer.  Not all clerics have to be healers, and the group wasn't forcing him into it.  But he had chosen to play a cleric devoted to serving and helping others, specifically by healing and protecting others, and he just didn't want to do that once he actually started playing the character.  Torm would not have disapproved of him doing exactly what he was sworn to do, which would have been healing his half-wounded allies.  It would have been exactly what he swore to do in Torm's service, since he had chosen the Healing domain and its associated aspects of Torm as the object of his faith and reverance.</blockquote>

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