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<blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 7445691" data-attributes="member: 6803664"><p>Several of my characters:</p><p></p><p>14th lv 1e fighter (human, male, Roman citizen).</p><p>I played this guy for a good # of years in a fantasy Roman Empire campaign. The game opened with him & the other PCs as members of one of the Legions & about to muster out - as soon as this one last campaign against the (??? I'd have to check my notes) wrapped up.</p><p>Just for the heck of it, when selecting weapon/non-weapon proficiencies, I asked the DM if I could be proficient in Roman Siege Weapons. He said "Sure, why not." He let me be proficient with <em>all</em> of them for 1 weapon slot - with the understanding that this slot would be almost wasted as siege weapons never/rarely factored into his adventures & I certainly wouldn't be able to buy/lug one about. But he'd never had anyone ask about this before, & he knew it'd never break anything, so sure. </p><p>For my non-weapon prof? I took engineering.</p><p>So my fighter was a Roman siege engineer (offense & defense) attached to an infantry group as the game opened.</p><p></p><p>After the first several sessions/adventures, he does indeed muster out of the Legion. He returns to Rome & sets about making a life for himself as a civil engineer.</p><p>When not adventuring he spends his time/makes his living planning & overseeing the construction of roads, designing aqueducts, sewers, etc. Sometimes this work takes him further afield than when he was in the Legion.</p><p>Now in his<em> true </em>downtime - as in-between jobs & not adventuring - he returns to his small estate just north of Rome and enjoys simply sitting by the pool. Maybe getting together with some old friends & seeing what the newest attraction at the colosseum is. </p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>My PF Bard/Wizard (12th lv human, male).</p><p>When he's not adventuring he spends much of his time helping raise his twin toddlers. Somewhere in there he also finds time to manage a small, but very lucrative, horse trading enterprise. </p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>1/2ling barbarian (8th lv, female, 5e)</p><p>Thanks to how & why she's an adventurer, she doesn't really have any downtime. Although her 1st adventure was technically attending a Satyr party, her life of adventure truly began when she was abducted by them & managed to escape by open a Cubic Gate/Amulet of the Planes one of the rescuing PCs tossed to her. Since then it's been about 8 months of fleeing through hostile jungles*, being attacked by pirates, being captured & enslaved by orcs*, and now trekking through the Desert of Desolation modules with a bunch of elven criminals/exiles*.</p><p>(* = times she's managed to open a gate.)</p><p>If she could be said to have any DT? It'd be several months of slave work & abuse in an orc tribe, a lot of hot sweaty trekking through a desert, bouts of sulking & feeling sorry for herself, and constantly fiddling with the Cube/amulet thing trying to get it to take her back home.</p><p>And she's realizing that she's pregnant with a 1/2orc baby.... </p><p>Assuming she doesn't get killed, her story ends in downtime. </p><p>A) She makes it home. She'll help her father run the family tavern, raise a little 1/2orc-1/2halfling, & never ever, never, go adventuring again.</p><p>B) She won't get home but will eventually have to stop somewhere because of the baby. Fortunately she has a decent amount of loot from helping the elves raid a theft-proof pyramid at the behest of a ghostly pharoh....</p><p></p><p>----</p><p></p><p>Fighter/Assassin Deep Gnome (1e, male)</p><p>When not adventuring <Bob> is a miner of gems & a LRRP <span style="font-size: 9px">(Long Range Recon Patrol)</span>vs underdark threats to his clan. In fact it took him 100s of years to acquire the skills/class lvs he had when he joined a party of idiot surface dwellers who were seeking the Glass Pool & needed help getting to (and into/through) the Koa-Toan city that guarded its entrance. (we were playing Night Below)</p><p>For a fat share of the loot he decided to help the idiots. He was also tasked by the clan elders with keeping an eye on them.</p><p>After a near TPK & getting critically injured, <Bob> took as much of the loot as he could lay hands on (hey, those dead morons wouldn't miss it), bailed on the survivors, returned home to his clan very rich, & has resumed gem mining (though now it's more a hobby) & long range guard duties.</p><p>The Koa-Toa city was wrecked, the flow of surface born slaves stopped, & he never saw any of the surviving PCs again. But, since nothing awful seems to have happened, he suspects the survivors managed to accomplish their quest....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ccs, post: 7445691, member: 6803664"] Several of my characters: 14th lv 1e fighter (human, male, Roman citizen). I played this guy for a good # of years in a fantasy Roman Empire campaign. The game opened with him & the other PCs as members of one of the Legions & about to muster out - as soon as this one last campaign against the (??? I'd have to check my notes) wrapped up. Just for the heck of it, when selecting weapon/non-weapon proficiencies, I asked the DM if I could be proficient in Roman Siege Weapons. He said "Sure, why not." He let me be proficient with [I]all[/I] of them for 1 weapon slot - with the understanding that this slot would be almost wasted as siege weapons never/rarely factored into his adventures & I certainly wouldn't be able to buy/lug one about. But he'd never had anyone ask about this before, & he knew it'd never break anything, so sure. For my non-weapon prof? I took engineering. So my fighter was a Roman siege engineer (offense & defense) attached to an infantry group as the game opened. After the first several sessions/adventures, he does indeed muster out of the Legion. He returns to Rome & sets about making a life for himself as a civil engineer. When not adventuring he spends his time/makes his living planning & overseeing the construction of roads, designing aqueducts, sewers, etc. Sometimes this work takes him further afield than when he was in the Legion. Now in his[I] true [/I]downtime - as in-between jobs & not adventuring - he returns to his small estate just north of Rome and enjoys simply sitting by the pool. Maybe getting together with some old friends & seeing what the newest attraction at the colosseum is. --- My PF Bard/Wizard (12th lv human, male). When he's not adventuring he spends much of his time helping raise his twin toddlers. Somewhere in there he also finds time to manage a small, but very lucrative, horse trading enterprise. --- 1/2ling barbarian (8th lv, female, 5e) Thanks to how & why she's an adventurer, she doesn't really have any downtime. Although her 1st adventure was technically attending a Satyr party, her life of adventure truly began when she was abducted by them & managed to escape by open a Cubic Gate/Amulet of the Planes one of the rescuing PCs tossed to her. Since then it's been about 8 months of fleeing through hostile jungles*, being attacked by pirates, being captured & enslaved by orcs*, and now trekking through the Desert of Desolation modules with a bunch of elven criminals/exiles*. (* = times she's managed to open a gate.) If she could be said to have any DT? It'd be several months of slave work & abuse in an orc tribe, a lot of hot sweaty trekking through a desert, bouts of sulking & feeling sorry for herself, and constantly fiddling with the Cube/amulet thing trying to get it to take her back home. And she's realizing that she's pregnant with a 1/2orc baby.... Assuming she doesn't get killed, her story ends in downtime. A) She makes it home. She'll help her father run the family tavern, raise a little 1/2orc-1/2halfling, & never ever, never, go adventuring again. B) She won't get home but will eventually have to stop somewhere because of the baby. Fortunately she has a decent amount of loot from helping the elves raid a theft-proof pyramid at the behest of a ghostly pharoh.... ---- Fighter/Assassin Deep Gnome (1e, male) When not adventuring <Bob> is a miner of gems & a LRRP [SIZE=1](Long Range Recon Patrol)[/SIZE]vs underdark threats to his clan. In fact it took him 100s of years to acquire the skills/class lvs he had when he joined a party of idiot surface dwellers who were seeking the Glass Pool & needed help getting to (and into/through) the Koa-Toan city that guarded its entrance. (we were playing Night Below) For a fat share of the loot he decided to help the idiots. He was also tasked by the clan elders with keeping an eye on them. After a near TPK & getting critically injured, <Bob> took as much of the loot as he could lay hands on (hey, those dead morons wouldn't miss it), bailed on the survivors, returned home to his clan very rich, & has resumed gem mining (though now it's more a hobby) & long range guard duties. The Koa-Toa city was wrecked, the flow of surface born slaves stopped, & he never saw any of the surviving PCs again. But, since nothing awful seems to have happened, he suspects the survivors managed to accomplish their quest.... [/QUOTE]
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