Ashy's Oathbound Campaign, OOC [ARCHIVED]

[Ferrix]

group leader... church of pelor... i feel blessed

cool intro btw, not what i had expected and it's fun to get dumped in right from the start

 

[Ashy]

Thanks! Glad you like! Time to get busy postin'!

 

[Ferrix]

posted an addendum to my characters history for other peoples knowledge of her, it's at the very bottom "Other Player Knowledge" as asked for in the IC thread.

 

[Ashy]

Looks great - thanks! Everyone, please follow suit.

Ferrix - when ya gonna post in the IC thread?

 

[Ashy]

ALL: something that I toyed with but decided not to insert was a small measure of resentment in the party: primarily that Xerxes was chosen as second-in-command over Tristan. I don't want it to be a party-seperating kind of issue, obviously, but I do think that it would add a certain spice of drama to the group (much like in real life, it is certain that the remainder of the characters would cast their lots on one side or the other, but would all still work together as a unit. There would be a shadow of resentment there, however, which IMHO would lead to some cool roleplaying.

Your thoughts? I do not want to impose this unless EVERYONE is cool with it.

 

[Ashy]

Oh - one last thing: the URL printed in the pictures (such as the one posted in the IC thread) is strictly off-limits. (Don't want any future surprises spoiled....)

 

[Ferrix]

Ferrix - when ya gonna post in the IC thread?

On my way... so much stuff to get caught up on now that boards are back up... and i've been up since 8:30 this morning which is highly unusual for me so i'm a little off.

 

[Ashy]

Cool - I'm just excited!

 

[Ferrix]

I like the in group tension stuff, it really adds party dynamic to it. I think the greatest example of this I've seen in a game was in a game where we had a human fighter and a human paladin who were half brothers (the fighter being the bastard child of the paladin's mother who was a duchess). However no one knew but them, and the fighter made his best effort to keep it that way. There was also the slight twist that the fighter was more lawful evil than lawful neutral when the paladin wasn't around, but tried to live up the example of his brother when he was around.

I love interesting party dynamic.

Kiera I see have throwing her vote originally in with Tristan as second in command, feeling that the psions powers are a bit too similar to arcane magic that they invoke in her the same distrust. So there is tension between the 1st and the 2nd in command. Perhaps someone in the church decided this to give an example to Kiera of a good arcane caster/psion to lead her away from the anger with which she can react to arcane casters which could eventually lead her down a darker path.

Okay, so more and more ideas pour out! Yay! Can ya tell I'm all for it.

 

[hafrogman]

I could go along with the tension. Tristan doesn't have any real desire for power over the others, but has trouble placing his faith in powers beyond his understanding. He prefers things he can touch and see, like steel. He accepts Kiera as leader because it makes sense as agents of Pelor, but Xerxes' mental powers are a bit too much for him, and he would have prefered a more martial second in command (understandably not Baja, but he or Julian would have done). There isn't so much a sense of bitterness at being passed over in him as a desire for someone more solid to rely on. He will follow orders from the second, but is more likely to question them on matters of physical combat than he would Kiera's orders.