Divine healing with a twist
Filed under Writing Journal on August 20, 2004
Tagged: clerics, Dungeons and Dragons, healing, Maiden of Pain
If we were to play a little word association, and I said “Dungeons & Dragons” and “cleric,” most people would think “healing.” It is the primary role that the class fills in a majority of adventuring parties. As such, no story about D&D clerics would be complete without at least one casting of cure light wounds.
However, as a player with some experience running cleric characters, I know how tired and cliched the role can be, and how much more there is to the class than just healing. Add to that the fact that the principal clerics in my story are servants of the goddess of pain and suffering, and it just didn’t seem right to throw in a gratuitous healing scene simply to maintain the status quo.
As a compromise, I took the two scenes in the novel involving healing and gave them a twist. In the first, I came up with a unique use for the old cure spell that probably was never intended by its creators. In the other scene, which I just wrote last night, I decided to describe the feeling of being healed in a way that, I hope, stays true to the dogma of the faith.
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