I know that 99% of the folks reading this know what Becky is trying to do, but just in case someone doesn't know, here's what the deal is: Becky is a paladin, which is a sort of holy warrior. Think Lancelot (without the whole adultery thing with Guinevere), and you've got the idea. Anyway, paladins can do something called "laying on hands", which is conferring some of the holy grace they have received from their god to another person in the form of healing by laying their hands upon the injured person and praying for them. Kind of like what Benny Hinn claims to do, only this actually works and doesn't require planted actors in the audience. ;)
See you all next week!
~Rob
I said it before and I’ll say it again,…Becky got her first “Smite” on the Big Baddy before,…. her second will land upon the Prince,….
On a side note in our old game we used to play with specialty Paladins [they were the alignment of their God not always LG and had to remain true to their God’s laws as compared to Mans law] and each Paladin got special favors from their God if they were a specialty Paladin as compared to a standard Paladin [example a Paladin of Bacchus would have the special ability to cure a Hangover 2x a day and be immune to the effects of alcohol except for the euphoria so would not lose any Dex or Wis from being drunk,…. or a Paladin of Cerrunnos could track animals like a Ranger or might get some Ranger or Druid spells added into their choices] and we always had fun with Paladins,……
Ah, yes. The wonderful ability of laying on hands. Equally capable of curing most any problem, from mortal wounds to impotence… although I’m pretty sure that Becky’s more interested in healing the prince’s stab wound at the moment so that he doesn’t die. Considering the highness’s attempted “laying on hands” I’m surprised that she doesn’t give him a taste of Morridin’s “blessing” (ie the hammer) upside his head.
=^_^=
Dhur has really got to get this prince out to an orc bar. Either he’d end up fearing orcish women, end up dead or possibly married. Either way he is no longer a liability to the king.
Or she’s like Aragorn. He’s more like a paladin with the Track feat, rather than a D&D-type ranger.
Alas, the prince is not. “The hands of a king are the hands of a feeler” doesn’t have the same ring.
Sir Galahad was always the closest to perfect paladin in the Arthurian mythos. Me, I think Elizabeth Moon’s “Deed of Paksennarion” trilogy is probably the best treatment of fantasy paladins I’ve ever encountered.
@Arkanabar: Ooo, forgot about Galahad. Good point. Never read Moon’s work, though. Probably should, despite her conservative politics.