On Fri, 21 May 1999, John Kim wrote:

> From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
> On Fri, 21 May 1999, Rodney Morris wrote:
> >
> > Of course, playing a bard when your party is mob-chasing is
> > dangerous at best - everything that is not being attacked by
> > the party (and in a good party I believe this will be everything
> > except the ONE creature being attacked) will attack the bard.
>
> Yeah, they really need to tone this down. I've had monsters
> that other people were attacking (people not in my party and
> lower level than me) break off their attack and come attack me
> for simply walking by with Accelerando or Restoration playing.
> When our party got squashed by a wandering sand giant, it hit
> me first instead of the clerics who were sitting and
> meditating.

I noticed this too in Blackburrow. My party and I were fighting a
commander when were trained with a bunch of guards and extremely green
gnolls. These gnoll started attacking me. After finishing them off
another train of four was chasing someone and they all turned and attacked
me. This was without me playing a song. I can understand why they would
hate you when you are singing. You are basically a spell caster that is
casting everytime they check for targets. And we know how much Mobs hates
casters. The worse that has happened to me occured in Crush. I am
standing around and then I see Dvinn, Emperor Crush, the Prophet and
Darish run by me. I think hey I am safe, they are chasing someone. Next
thing I know I am loading the zone and I find that all of them turned to
me and began clobbering me.

Treilanin - Karana - lvl 16