A Merc's Life [OOC 01]

[Maidhc O Casain]

Leif, would you be up to NPCing Keeland for the next few days? I'd rather keep the PCs in the players' hands if possible. In fact, I'm looking for someone to either take Kecil over or to generate another character to fill the Rogue spot so I don't have any party members under my direct control.

I've approached Rhun and he indicated some interest but I haven't heard back from him yet.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

I like it, I like my clerics to be part of the "fringe" churches, they seem to have more impact that way. My first cleric was a worshipper of the Red knight in the FR setting, in 2e. I was one of only a handful of her church and a good part of my focus in the campaign was getting the church organized and set-up... good times.

Sweet - I was hoping that would be your response.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

I've got the OP site reworked, with a new banner and everything! I think I got everything pertinent changed - y'all take a look!

Also got the complete map of Saor Ghabháltas up on the map page. I'm not completely satisfied with the way the Poor Quarter turned out, but I couldn't figure out a better way to do it given my current lack of graphics power for all of the buildings there. It at least gives the idea about how crowded that quarter is.

 

[Leif]

Leif, would you be up to NPCing Keeland for the next few days? I'd rather keep the PCs in the players' hands if possible. In fact, I'm looking for someone to either take Kecil over or to generate another character to fill the Rogue spot so I don't have any party members under my direct control.
I've approached Rhun and he indicated some interest but I haven't heard back from him yet.

Sure, I'll do what I can. (which may not be too much, sadly.)

OK, campaign is now set in Golarion (Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting). The country is Katapesh (excerpt attached).

Books to obtain/read (entirely optional): Golarion Campaign Setting, Dark Markets: A Guide to Katapesh, Legacy of Fire Player's Guide, and any other of the Pathfinder Chronicles stuff.

Coolness! I actually have both the Golarion Campaign Setting, and the Guide to Katapesh! I also have the Guide to Korvosa, Guide to Absalom, Guide to Darkmoon Vale, the Elves of Golarion supplement, and Classic Monsters Revisited.

 

[Leif]

FYI: All I meant by telling our Glorious GM that I had Golarion and Guide to Katapesh was that at least one of the players in the game will not be totally unfamiliar with the setting. I don't really know all that much about it, anyway.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

I've actually just started delving into the Golarion book and the Guide to Katapesh. Really, I haven't even gone past the table of contents in the Guide to Katapesh, though I probably should start with that one since the game is set there.

IC post coming - probably tomorrow AM.

 

[Leif]

I've read some in the Campaign Guide (Golarion), but not much. (And I don't remember anything, anyway.) And I just now read some in the Guide to Katapesh. It's interesting -- not the usual sort of environment for our games. It's sort of a desert/wasteland kind of place. A custom among travelers is that wealthy or secure travelers offer shelter to those in need. The usual response by the traveler is an offer of payment for the hospitality, which the host declines. But then the guest hides his payment somewhere where the host will find it later. Interesting..... The area is also home to some gnolls, which I thought might be why you chose it, considering our last encounter.

 

[renau1g]

That's pretty neat. I like the wasteland-style adventures, we played in Dark Sun for a while and that was pretty crazy.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

It's a hot, dry climate for most of the year but more of a savannah than a desert.

The Brazen Peaks to the north keep moisture in Katapesh, and there are torrential rains for a couple of weeks in the early spring and late fall. Not a lot of rivers, most of the lakes are endorheic - depressions that collect and hold water - and are refilled by these rains.

Stretches of desert in the south along the rivers that mark that border, rocky flatlands in the west along the Barrier Wall mountains (the pass through which Saor Ghabháltas 'guards'), savannah in the north up the the Brazen Peaks (in which the current adventure takes place). This savannah extends to the east all the way to the ocean shore, which is jagged and rocky and has several natural deepwater harbors.

 

[Leif]

It's a hot, dry climate for most of the year but more of a savannah than a desert.

The Brazen Peaks to the north keep moisture in Katapesh, and there are torrential rains for a couple of weeks in the early spring and late fall. Not a lot of rivers, most of the lakes are endorheic - depressions that collect and hold water - and are refilled by these rains.

Stretches of desert in the south along the rivers that mark that border, rocky flatlands in the west along the Barrier Wall mountains (the pass through which Saor Ghabháltas 'guards'), savannah in the north up the the Brazen Peaks (in which the current adventure takes place). This savannah extends to the east all the way to the ocean shore, which is jagged and rocky and has several natural deepwater harbors.

That's why I said Wasteland/Desert. (Like referring to the Great Plains as the Great American Desert.) Not a sandy desert, but a mostly dry area. So these lakes are just big ponds. Yeesh, the water must be just lovely during the dry period. So we are familiar with the Western mountainous region, even though we are currently near the Brazen Peaks to the north?