Raven_Crowking wrote:It will fix itself in the long run.
Remember that to be "same", a PC has to be of the same alignment and religion. It should be fun to set up a rivalry between the two clerics. Also, regardless of the roll, you can up Disapproval for "sinful use of divine power", which could include a Lawful cleric healing Chaotic PCs (or vice versa).
Remember that Disapproval increases by 1 for each failed spell check of any type. When a character rolls a natural roll within that range, the check automatically fails, and Disapproval is triggered. Even if the character could succeed with, say, a "6", due to his bonuses, that is still a failure....and 6d4 on the Disapproval table.
In any event, all that healing just means that you can throw bigger and badder things at them. Sooner or later, the dice will even things out.
aah i may have not been quite as vigilant on the disapproval ratings, though no one except the poor mage has cast too many spells.
here is the current party composition:
Tovanni -Female Lawful Cleric of Justica -currently trying to balancing being compassionate without healing the chaotic party members -her solution so far is to demand an immediate good deed from them
Blight -Male Chaotic Mage -this poor player rolled penalties for every stat except agilty (no penalty) and Intelligence (13) -probably the reason he is avoiding spellburn his stats are already low; also his poor dice rolling has continued he has failed to yet cast a single spell successfully. He has had a few lucky rolls with a bow though. Also he's correctly called the few traps they faced and was able to smugly tell them he told them so
Brahm Woogins - Male Chaotic Warrior -he's sword and boarding it and is the brick (also the most experienced player of D&D type games)
Zoso -Male Chaotic Cleric of Fenrir (in house god of beasts, monsters, hunting and murderous rages) -has a tendency to run at any shiny and fall into every trap so far (also he has no real rpg experience but played WoW and JRPGs and is shocked the local peasants don't have chests full of healing potions and gold in their huts lol)
D'mx -Female Neutral Halfling - despite being the good luck charm the only person to fumble so far and multiple times at that
Dragon -Male Lawful Warrior and wielder of a battle axe -he had amazing rolls for stats, +1 or +2 bonus on everything until it came to hit points despite having a +2 con bonus and rolling 1d4 in addition to 1d12 for the 0 level hp for the total -he only has 8 -though he still acts pretty heroically -but that has brought him near death several times
Everyone except the fighters are pretty much new to role playing outside computer games or that one time at their weird cousins house freshman year , but they seem to be enjoying it
The Warrior players seem to really enjoy the mighty deed mechanic even if it doesn't always work, but it does seem to be encouraging them to get into character and describe clever strikes and strokes; but they are also the two most experienced Rpers so we will see if everyone else warms up to it. The warriors are kind of funny, they don't blink at angry natives or giant hyenas , but show them an empty corridor or an eerily quiet glade and they start shaking and imagining traps everywhere and no longer wanting to lead
We have another player who has missed both our first two sessions, everyone hopes they will play the thief because the find traps slot is a big hole for them. Also one of the players's wives might join as well (which will make it the biggest group i ever ran). She'd be a newbie too but hearing we had a few women playing already she seems interested (as opposed to when she thought it was just a man cave thing ).
And maybe another player as well, a spouse of a coworker might join
So far they are just running something i cooked up, in time i hope to get them to do some of the shudder mountain adventures and the purple planet (which are both awesome but for higher levels), and i do have a hook in this story that can lead into sailors of the starless sea -probably the next thing we do-my plan is do somethign original than a module as a palette cleanser then back to original etc.
I also have a long term goal of running a modified White Plume Mountain as that is one of my favorite adventures of all time