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<blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 5398616" data-attributes="member: 20805"><p>Kashyk is my favorite NPC so far.. of course, he has the advantage of being able to be defeated over and over again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p> The way I played him, he was quite happy to do the Ragesian's bidding because of the inherent violence.... which was his original tie in to the Inquisitor Guthwulf. The mission to acquire the case is seen as the first faltering step of a truely evil person and he starts to consider whether other means of spreading violence is possible.</p><p></p><p> IMC, he runs into Devon the Barbaric Fighter and ends up in something of a blood feud with him due to a lucky critical hit in the first encounter. He is at the point where he is willing to twist the rules of his current bargain, but wants Devon dead.</p><p></p><p> At some point in the future, the PCs might be able to turn him into a force of violence on behalf of the 'good' side... but only if they can deal with the blood feud <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, in short.. he should be played kinda like the player of a PC... he can't really be killed while summoned, so failure by death is simply a short vacation away from the material plane. His goal, like many PCs, is gratuitous violence and destruction. Nothin so lofty as gathering souls... Bearded Devils are the front line shock troops of hell. But that means he wants to gain 'rank' in the army of hell. The best way to do that, as any PC knows, is to get XP and level up... preferably from defeating CR equivilent foes, to the point where he isn't summonable by these middling mortals and he can focus on the battles in his home realm.</p><p> If twisting the bargain with the Ragesian's can extend the warfare and extend his time in this 'dungeon', then he would be all for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Primitive Screwhead, post: 5398616, member: 20805"] Kashyk is my favorite NPC so far.. of course, he has the advantage of being able to be defeated over and over again :) The way I played him, he was quite happy to do the Ragesian's bidding because of the inherent violence.... which was his original tie in to the Inquisitor Guthwulf. The mission to acquire the case is seen as the first faltering step of a truely evil person and he starts to consider whether other means of spreading violence is possible. IMC, he runs into Devon the Barbaric Fighter and ends up in something of a blood feud with him due to a lucky critical hit in the first encounter. He is at the point where he is willing to twist the rules of his current bargain, but wants Devon dead. At some point in the future, the PCs might be able to turn him into a force of violence on behalf of the 'good' side... but only if they can deal with the blood feud :) So, in short.. he should be played kinda like the player of a PC... he can't really be killed while summoned, so failure by death is simply a short vacation away from the material plane. His goal, like many PCs, is gratuitous violence and destruction. Nothin so lofty as gathering souls... Bearded Devils are the front line shock troops of hell. But that means he wants to gain 'rank' in the army of hell. The best way to do that, as any PC knows, is to get XP and level up... preferably from defeating CR equivilent foes, to the point where he isn't summonable by these middling mortals and he can focus on the battles in his home realm. If twisting the bargain with the Ragesian's can extend the warfare and extend his time in this 'dungeon', then he would be all for it. [/QUOTE]
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