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Then, if I'm running L5R, I give each NPC a personal desire (ninjo) and an obligation (giri), plus a demeanor. In Five Rings, there are five 'approaches' which match the 'five elements' of the title. Air is subtle or deceptive, Earth is stoic or focused on precedent, Fire is passionate or...

Well, have some rule of decorum that the PCs must go bring the heirs to the court so they can all plead their case together. This puts the PCs on a little mini-adventure where they can meet the heirs, learn what they're like, and maybe be tempted to let them get killed when an ankheg attacks or...

This is already a long thread so I'm not sure anyone will see this, but has anyone played the FFG Legend of the Five Rings RPG? In it, there are rules for 'intrigues' which are akin to social combat - typically used for things like formal courts or when multiple groups are vying for the support...

Well, do they even have lids on the other ten?

Wayfarer on wayfarer teleportation duel!

And the Paragon Paths were in part influenced by the Themes, which were little add ones everyone got in 4e to give them a mechanical ability tied to the plot and setting elements. Themes were originally developed by WotC for Dark Sun 4e. I don't know anyone who has mentioned running a campaign...

I'm just saying, don't drink the water in Parity Lake.

Risur is a sort of mishmash of Britain and Brazil. Honestly burials are probably normal, though some communities might do funeral pyres.

I love the depth of your characters in this version of the campaign.

I know it changes the math of combat, but I wish the game had, instead of 3 actions, been 2 actions and a move, with no more than one action per round that deals damage. That makes using interesting abilities that modulate the conditions of the encounter easier, since you don't end up feeling...

The general concept of 'magic derived from the word of El the Eternal' is called kelma. Some of the foundational bedrocks of kelma are: Testaments - Seven very old stones, irregular in shape but weighing a few tons, inscribed in early language, conveying messages from seven angels to the...

I'm working on a Bronze Age setting for a novel. A driving conceit of the setting is that a civilization is built on holy dictates, graven in stone, made by a series of high priests over the course of centuries. Imagine a cross of Hammurabi's Code and the Ten Commandments, only if a tablet...

I mean, from Nic's perspective, you guys keep showing up and telling him he's wrong. Why would he want to listen to that, when he built his whole identity around being unjustly punished for being the only one willing to stand up for what's right? ("What's right" here includes "callous...

I'm following along as best I can, having not really interacted with Eberron since, ooh, 2009? Is the idea that the markings on Ottavia's neck are her dragonmark?

I don't know if I wrote it in the adventures, but in my home campaign that inspired WotBS (and the earlier campaign in which Rhuarc was a PC, and Coaltongue was just an upstart half-orc revolutionary), Trilla always had psychic powers. I think I had recently read some Dragonriders of Pern and...

Ah, the 'level you should get access' matters more for the magical stuff than just the raw stats stuff. Also, I think Roscommon and Khalundurrin were meant to carry the PCs through to later adventures without needing constant upgrades, to be pre-loaded with neat stuff. A complication to...

I hope the PCs don't feel too lost at this point in the campaign. Especially since That's a neat map. I miss having a desktop PC where I could make stuff like that. Got any surprises planned for adventure 6?