Ashy's Oathbound Campaign, OOC [ARCHIVED]

[Ashy]

My oathbound knowledge,

I have fully read and reviewed Wrack and Ruin, Arena, Complete Minions, and the novel. I am mostly through Mysteries of Arena (it's next for me to review followed later by Legacies of the Forge and the Oathbound CS pdf.)

So I have an overview of the forge and a lot of knowledge about Arena in particular and a bunch of the critters and races of Arena but not having delved into the CS in depth I could not tell you much about the other fowl or the full history and workings of the Oaths and related stuff although I have some info from the supplements I have read.

I think the info that has come out in game has been a good intro to the workings of the setting.

That's a very good foundation for this game - what about the rest of you?

BTW, what do you think about Forged? My wife and I edited it!

 

[Ashy]

Who is "Father"?

That is the big plan, but we have to figure out if the Fowl are the Enemy or not, could be but not yet clear. For instance, do they send people out of the world? They pull them in but it has not been established if they send out forces as well.

"Father" is the only name you know of the man who brought you all together and trained you for this mission. He is a high-up in the church of Pelor and was only called "Father" by everyone who ever encountered him, so far as you know. The term also has an emotional connotation for you, as many of you view him as a father figure as well...

You'll have to ask you second question IC...

 

[Ashy]

I'll have to start doing that with NPCs

That's what they are there for, ain't it?


...well, that and watching the horses!

 

[Ashy]

Eh, Kiera's a standard cleric with every divine spell known. She can speak with dead which is a huge info gathering resource, but so is just talking to people and asking what you want to know. I'm glad I got some good info out of Yarrish before he bit it.

PC is our man now for world info.

Correct and correct.

 

[Ashy]

Not much experience with Oathbound, I've got the CS, but I haven't actually sat down and read it. So yeah, not too much here.

oh... and by diviner, I meant more along the lines of a character who focuses on divination, which Kiera really doesn't do too much of.

Gotcha - so the Knowledge checks are useful to you, then?

 

[Ferrix]

Yeah, I'm sure if I had more time I'd do more reading of the Oathbound book but I don't really have the urge to read. I like the surprise and enjoy pestering you

 

[Ashy]

Cool.

 

[Ashy]

Welp, I've waited about as long as I can. Does anybody know what is up with Vendetta??? Unless I see a post in the next 5 mins, I'll have to auto Xerxes...

 

[hafrogman]

I don't own any Oathbound books, and I haven't read any of them at all. I see why the knowledge checks are useful to provide information that I don't have access to, but I still find myself in a somewhat unusual situation.

Normally, for most characters, my out of character knowledge has to be limited to what the character would know. Here, the character knows far more than I do, as a player. Thus, I am supposed to roleplay knowing things, that I, as the player, don't actually know.

I know so little, that I don't know when or where knowledge checks are appropriate, because I don't know what is common/uncommon knowledge. I suppose I should just start adding "Knowledge (forge) check" to every post, just so that every time something happens, I learn a little more

 

[Vendetta]

Sorry... ISP has been down the past two days... gahd, my life is so shallow that I have nothing to do when this tragedy happens. Anyway, It seems to be working now so I'll post a reply now, unless Ashy jumped on the auto before I could get back on, which would be fine.