Call to the Four Lands

[J. Alexander]

Cast so Far

so far here are the cast of characters

Scotely
Mowgli
Rhun
One opened proably to be taken by Dracomender
One openen proably to be taken by Nightbreeze
One open

of course this may change but i am not seeing any more submissions and Neurotic stated his prefernce is for lower level games..

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

Oops - wrong thread!

 

[Nightbreeze]

Ooh, I thought the colony game was already filled and stepped back....thanks JA for advising me.

I thing I'm going to play gestald druid/something unless the position is filled....I'll reread now the last 3-4 pages of this thread in search of info and inspiration.

 

[Nightbreeze]

Ok, finished hunting informations. I'd like to play a Rogue//Druid character (quite unusual, huh?)

Very rough idea: the character is a famous city and residence builder. He is known for being a pretty diplomatic fellow, and he has many skills that help in the estabilishment of new colonies and cities. Above all, thanks to his philosophy and druidic skills, all his cities are in balance with nature, without being poor or ineffective. The closer thing to elven cities that humans have.

As for his personality, in youth he was a stern apprentice druid, enraged by the destruction that civilization brings to the beatiful landscapes. His mentor was a wise and unusual old shaman, who sent him to study at a famous academy for nobles (how did the mentor manage to pay for it and convince the administrators of this academy to accept his student is unknow). At first, because of his spite for aristocrats, he felt out of his place there, and often slipped to the slums, where he learned to enjoy himself with questionable activities (like thievery and so on). At the beginning of the second year, however, a sudden realization came to him: the best way to fight the corruption of the lands is to control it: if he is the one who controls the estabilishment of a new colony, he can make it so that it doesn't hurt nature. He went on in becoming one of the best in the accademy and since then he has worked for many nations, cities and nobles (one of them, particularly satisfied by his new summer residence, granted him a minor noble title)

When building a new colony/city, he relies on his diplomatic skills, on his knowledge in many fields, and on his magic to find suitable resources. If he is not the only one in command, he simply blackmails the others to respect nature: after all, he can find a mine of gold with absolute ease, but he does so only if his requests are satisfied.

His dream is to build one of the richest and most beatiful cities in the world.

 

[J. Alexander]

Nightbreeze

The concept is sound and solid but we are kinda heavy on the druid types in the party...as for the blackmailing etc...i can see the character aspect and overall motive but am kinda unsure how that may play out in the group dynamic......Foreshadowing the layout of goverment is that it is a joint colony of several kinddoms / interests....and will be ruled by a council of which the party will form the majority voting block...so i have some reservations about blackmailing the council to get what he wants even though it is for the good of nautre and true to his alingnment.....it could possible wreak havoic on the team spirite..etc i mean who wants to really help someone who has blackmailed him.........

I am not nixing the idea just have a few concerns.................

 

[Nightbreeze]

Hmm, I see. As there are other druids in the party, they should be pretty able to cast "commune with nature" too. I wasn't really meaning "blackmailing": it was a more suble thing, like "listen, I know where a huge deposit of gold lies, but before finding it, may we please move that acqueduct in order to avoid destroying the forest? Besides, it would be more beatiful that way". But if there are other druids in the party, I guess that won't work. Pity, I liked that concept.

Problem is...prety much roles are already filled. We have a fighter/rogue, a druid/rogue, a wizard and a cleric....not much left. I'd like to make some heavy magic and skill(knowledge, profession, craft), user, but I will inevitably step on someone's toes...especially in a 5 players gestald party.

In your setting, a gestald cleric/wizard would be a really interesting fellow....or maybe some other strange spellcasting class combined with a cleric. But at this moment I find myself in lack of inspiration....however I've always wanted to play such a game, so I'l think about it very hard.

Any suggestion, prompts, flying brainstormed ideas?

 

[J. Alexander]

Nightbreeze

Okay that sheds a lot of light on it and i dont have a problem with it now.....as for the druid part.....we can always use another if that is what you wish to play...with such a small party more or less there is going have to be overlapping and mutually supportive roles..at this level your not going to be up against meer orckises .......so flesh him out and lets see what you get.

Every thought about a Warlock/Druid. or a Sorceoror/Druid...talk about some serious bang bang in addition to access to all the druid feats and skills...........could be lethal....

 

[Nightbreeze]

Yeah...put point is, I really want access to those skills and skill points...(like knowledge architecture and engineering, and so on).

Would you be willing to exchange some unused class features (like wildshape) for additional class skills and skill points at each level? That would be reasonable, for a druid with that background...I'll be waiting for your thoughs about this.

The idea of Warlock/Druid or Sorcerer/Druid is interesting, even if building a lethal character is not my primary goal...as you said, combat won't be the focus of this campaign.

 

[J. Alexander]

Nightbreeze

We are dealing with very powerful character types here..so i would be more than flexibale in steeping outside the box a little if you wish to take the route or trading class skills.....off the top of my head how does spending one feat that gives you acess to two skills which can then be considered a class skill.......or something similar.......or if you want to take the rouge for the skills that would be also acceptable as your narrowing his focus..

Any suggestions from the rest of the crowd?

 

[Rhun]

Any suggestions from the rest of the crowd?

I'm sure there is already a feat out there that does something like that...I'm using my gf's PC, so I don't have acccess to all my Crystal Keep documents to look it up; I can probably do that tomorrow, though.