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delaneyalysa wrote:
The issue is out cleric player is upset that they are a heal bot and everytime it comes to a fight, they have to be in range to heal the fighters. What this person fails to understand is this is the main task

With respect, man - F that noise.

Your problem is not that the cleric character does not understand his role. Your problem is that one of the players is not enjoying game. If you feel so acutely that people should do their allotted tasks, why don't you swap characters with the other player? You be healbot! You do it! And if you don't want to do this because you'd find it boring - well dude, you should think about that for a bit.

Rageling wrote:
I had a similar issue pre-Pathfinder. The cleric eventually snapped at the party and insulted their intelligence in the process - "I'm a warrior of my god, not a magical bandaid! I'm capable of tending to wounds after battles, or during in the case of extreme injuries, but I'm not running a nursery for children playing with knives! Sharpen your wits and stop leaving yourselves so open to attack, before my god decides you're not worth healing anymore..."

I'm thinking of running a minmaxed healbot for pfs. I'll give him a dex and str of 8, which fluff-wise will be because he's outrageously old and slightly blind. And deaf. "What's that, boy? Can't hear you! You want me to shimmy across that rope? At my age? Light of Saranrae! If only I *could* shimmy across ropes like you whippersnappers!"

As in - ok guys, you want a healbot? Cool. But deal with this.


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Ok, so we are talking about a basin with sandbars. When they hit one and get stuck, the dudes ride out on the sandbar.

Even if the water is only knee deep, I still can't see them leaping from their horses and "charging". Difficult terrain. I'm thinking a larger group of them, but two or three of them rope-and-grappling hook the boat and pull it with their horses, taking no further part in the fight. Maybe make 'em teenagers. The warriors make a jump/climb check to get onto the boat.


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Forget that it's D&D, forget that you are DM.

If you were playing chess with this person, and found they were moving the pieces around while your back was turned, what would you do? If you were playing monopoly, and realised that they were helping themselves to hotels while you wen to the kitchen, what would you do?

Oh, sure there are roles - DMs and Players. But meta that, D&D is a game that a group of friends - or at least acquaintances - plays together for fun. How does everyone feel about cheating? If the whole group is cool with it - are you?

Not running the game is always an option.