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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3219737" data-attributes="member: 25619">I'm not sure that's actually what's intended in the rules.  I am certain that a DM should play the NPCs "in character".An LG cleric who's an associate of the PC's and helped them plan out their mission is as likely IMC to charge for healing as a military medic is to ask for an insurance card from a wounded soldier.  There's normal peacetime pricing, and then there's war zone necessities.  Of course, the PC's should also aid and/or donate to the good church in town, but it's not a quid pro quo thing.Indeed, but if the PC's are almost exactly drunken sailors -- neutral mercenaries just resting up between adventures, over rich vagrants who may never be back and have nothing to offer but gold -- it makes sense that they couldn't get healing for free.  In that case, it's being kind to let them get healing at all -- you'd think there would normally be more deserving cases.Perhaps you can think of it as an ATM service fee for these PCs -- we'll let you use us, but if you'd converted to our religion, you wouldn't be getting the $2 transaction fee.Yes, I've seen this in action.  I guess it depends on the sort of campaign you want to run, but if you run a strictly dog-eat-dog mercenary world, don't be surprised if the PC's adapt to that.</blockquote>