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^ this.
Let them die. Get out of the situation. Raise them later. Make them pay for the reagents.
Call it stupidity tax. If they learn they can stop paying it.
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Either discuss tactics with them, or stop complaining that their tactics aren't "waiting for me to do my cool thing"
It sounds like that near death fighter did a great job making sure he was getting attacked instead of you. It might make him sound like an idiot, but he might feel like that is his primary role, getting dropped into the meat-grinder so the casters are free to spend the first several rounds of a fights 'staying behind to cast'.
Talk to them, away from the table, about the behavior and how you dont like the role it puts you in. Ask them if they could consider a little more caution in their tactics so you could get to have a little more fun in combat. Then stop preping most of your healing spells
Buff them before they charge in so they don't die and let them do some cool stuff while you provide support from the rear?
The best option: talk to the players.
The second-best option: have your character talk to their characters.
The third-best option: examine your character sheet and count up how much diamond you are actually currently carrying, because gold itself is useless for raise/resurrection. Then warn them about the number of times you can actually bring them back.
The don't do it option: behave in a petulant, passive-aggressive or spiteful way.
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I can't help but point out that we are hearing only one side of this, and I have generally found that when someone presents their side of things with such negative commentary about the people on the other side....
... well, that's when I really want to hear the other side.
This does not sound like a game issue. It sounds like a mutual respect issue. Work on the mutual respect and I think the "game issue" will probably solve itself.
(one quickened, two SS, one immediate towards next rounds swift)
The overlying issue aside, I just wanted to point out one very quick thing regarding to rules: If you cast an immediate action spell on your turn, then it counts as that turn's swift action (instead of next turn's swift action). So you can't cast both a quickened spell and an immediate spell on the same turn.
Let them die, and go find some devout followers of your deity to help you complete your quest.
(one quickened, two SS, one immediate towards next rounds swift)The overlying issue aside, I just wanted to point out one very quick thing regarding to rules: If you cast an immediate action spell on your turn, then it counts as that turn's swift action (instead of next turn's swift action). So you can't cast both a quickened spell and an immediate spell on the same turn.
Where does it say that in the rules? I've never seen that before. I always assumed the Swift/Immediate action rules were universal.
Also, chalk me up as another in the "Let 'em die" camp. You can't fix stupid.
Where does it say that in the rules? I've never seen that before. I always assumed the Swift/Immediate action rules were universal.
In the Combat section:
Immediate Actions
Much like a swift action, an immediate action consumes a very small amount of time but represents a larger expenditure of effort and energy than a free action. However, unlike a swift action, an immediate action can be performed at any time—even if it's not your turn. Casting feather fall is an immediate action, since the spell can be cast at any time.
Using an immediate action on your turn is the same as using a swift action and counts as your swift action for that turn. You cannot use another immediate action or a swift action until after your next turn if you have used an immediate action when it is not currently your turn (effectively, using an immediate action before your turn is equivalent to using your swift action for the coming turn). You also cannot use an immediate action if you are flat-footed.
Oh, he used the Immediate action ON HIS TURN. I see. I missed that part.
I don't know if he actually did, but the way he wrote it was ambiguous enough that I wanted to clarify (in case he did, and in case others thought it was possible to do that) :)
@ OP: It seems like the party's having a lot of fun. Chaotic Neutral? Clerics who waste their turns? Seems like a party.
But you're not having fun, it'd seem... So I say do what you want. Maybe make your Chaotic Good into Chaotic "for the Greater Good?" Or realize that some warriors want to die in battle, and that you can't help that. Maybe even make your character envy your fool-hardy companions, but realize that he doesn't have the same luxury, because he has a mission to do for his god (What's that Robert Frost poem?).
But you have to find a way to have fun without taking away your party's fun. And the fact is that your GM will give you the wiggle room to do it. I.e. those 4 spells in a round? I don't know if it was legal or not, but I guarantee your GM would have let you do it regardless, given the moment.
So if you want to do what you feel like once in a while, instead of what your party implicitly demands of you, go for it. I think the company you keep during the game is more important than the game itself.
They play their way, you play yours. Talk with them away from the game, if that doesn't do anything, your char says to theirs "You know, I think we're going about this all wrong, and the glorious deity can't afford to let this mission fail, I will do what they require of me, not what you command".
Then, if they still ignore your input, your PC gave them a warning that they were expendable. When the fighter is unconcious, bleeding out 1 round away from a battleaxe to the face killing him outright, your Character surveys the scene and monologues
"I could cast X,y, and z protecting the fighter, stabilizing him and getting him on his feet to fight another day, or I could cast A, B, and C to remove the threat this demon poses to the world. Sorry my companion, but sacrifices are needed in times of crisis. I cast A,B,C."
You tried talking calmly and constructivel to the player, you appealed to the character's senses, and when that failed, you played your character as they would behave.
Of course, it sounds like you guys have interpersonal issues beyond playstyle, which may or may not be a good place to start.
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So "make a mistake" or "be careless" yourself. Next time it comes down to you to save them at the last moment, pretend you haven't noticed just how close. Do something else and then go "huh? you were THAT close to death? I was going to heal you next turn..." or "oh.. but I can't get close enough to you and do all those things..."
Let them fail.
This sounds like one of those games where player 1 does something, and unless one of players 2...N do something, player 1 wins. But player 2 says "I'm not doing it... let player 3 ... N deal with the problem". So everyone can take the guys down the line hostage. But if it comes down to player N and he doesn't (can't, forgets, doesn't want to) do it, everyone loses.
Teammates don't hold teammates hostage.