(10-02-2015, 09:57 AM)Kaiz Wrote: I'm not sure why Grindstone insists on healing, personally. If someone wants to trudge through the event bruised and bloodied, what difference does it make?
In general, instantaneous healing pretty much removes any real danger from most situations, and that's a bit inconsistent with how the setting is presented, where NPCs do indeed fear for their safety. So magic "poof, you're all better!" healing is probably very rare. In the Conjurer questlines, healing comes up many times, but it's never as simple as wiggling your fingers and suddenly someone's okay. It's usually trying, risky, and not always guaranteed to succeed.
Because character death is a thing. And if someone goes to the Grindstone hoping to have their character killed off from sustained injuries from one or more rounds, the other people may not be cool with that. It's a matter of consent.
Due to the Grindstone accepting basically all physical combat players regardless of where they fall onto the "realistic" <-> "fantasy" RP meter, it would become an issue if borderline-WoL who has Inner Beast Darkside powering his massive sword-axe went on a mass killing spree at the Grindstone. In the same way, a player might just that "all it takes for my character to die is to get stabbed once." Maybe a little price from the end of Joe Nobody's dull sword was enough to do that. Of course, such was never communicated. And the general rule at Grindstone is "no killing." For an event that's becoming so large all the people can't render on the map in a single view, there's simply too much going on for serious injuries, "losing control", or death.
But at the same time, Grindstone is supposed to be about besting your opponent. I don't generally have Franz swinging for vitals or trying to impaled people. Stopping before and attack or tapping shows he -could- have finished the attack, but injuries are messy. We had a 2-3 hour long "I need all the healers focused on me" person once. And it made coordination incredibly difficult when there were other people who needed RP healing too.
