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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plecostomus" data-source="post: 9799322" data-attributes="member: 7040041">My cleric had an encounter with the cursed Wish gem in Tomb of Horrors, which caused him to lose the ability to hold gemstones, including diamonds for resurrection spells. In a more recent quest he acquired a special diamond that not only had limitless value in terms of spell component usage, but was of a sufficiently weird composition that it did not trigger my cleric's curse and he could hold it. We called it the "lumpy diamond".The DM seemed to think my cleric might use this to help the party at some point. But no, he used it to resurrect a child who has no ability to do anything useful for the party.In a past life my cleric was affiliated with Ilmater, who is not officially a patron of children or the dead, but has a personality trait that he is especially caring towards children and young creatures of all kinds. I carried that unofficial trait into my cleric's doctrine. These days he is Lawful Evil, but sensitivity to the lives of kids is one of the things that keeps him from acts of mass destruction...most of the time anyway.So on the one hand, "what my character would do" is used to keep my cleric on a leash. But on the other hand, it did cause him to flush a priceless diamond for no mechanical benefit.</blockquote>