Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="penance" data-source="post: 3102787" data-attributes="member: 45645">Ha!  I can tell already that this is going to great;  Not many people around where I live can absorb storyline with such understanding. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />  There are few adventureors with the strength to run around soloing, it is generally accepted to enter into a 'quest-type deal' as a business contract between equals; indeed, there is the great Adventerors' School, which is basically an investment business.  "we give you 'x' supplies, you bring us back y gold.' or something along those lines.  Everyone recognises the wisdom of working in a group.And as far as magic goes, every one of the elite Kings Guard is a spellsword, which is a tradition that goes back the the First King Himself (they also use lots of scythes.)  {The Kings Guard is a bodyguard of people sworn into fealty to the crown, and the only people who cannot attain for the Kingship.  (even felons and the like have a chance.)  Anyways, they are held in very high respect, and more than a little fear.  Magic is generally seen as a skill to hone and focus just like skill with a sword.  Cleric adventurerors are much harder to find, and so the business of healing potions is a big one.  I would allow a cleric if a player wanted, but it should be known that that would draw attention to him, even dislike.... perhaps a good storyline bit...    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As far as gods go, the ones listed in the standard 3.5 PG should be suffecient, with these qualifyers:the evil gods are not worshipped in the open;  the neutral gods are worshipped primarialy in groves far from cities; the lawful gods are worshipped in monastary complexes with only the most powerful of the order leaving to adventure:  otherwise they often act as judges and they have a contingent of fighter/clerics and a part of the Kings Bodyguard.  As such, the clerical arts have little known about htem besides a tendency to be fanatical and, at times, somewhat deranged.  This view comes from the elder clerics that refuse to relenquish their position as High Judges, even when their view becomes.... distorted with age.The temperature is not so warm as to make it an encumbrance;  it does get to around 100 on the very hottest of days.  The average temp is probably around 80-85 for the summer, with fall/spring being a cool 70-75, winter temperatures rarely dropping below freezing.  That said, full plate is mostly worn as a status symbol, with the idea being 'not only can I afford this, and have the endurance to wear it, it is something I have to wear because I need the protection."  Heavy armor is usually very decorated with insignia, embellishment, and sometimes gold plating and/or jewels.  It would certainly be not as heavy as, say, the plate armor of someone who lives in a colder land, but the Syraelic skill in armor crafting makes the armor about equal in protection.As far as matzica, i just downloaded the pack and such.  I'll have to look that over first, to see what it entails;  Like i said, I'd like to do just standard stuff that im already experienced in:  I would really hate to miscall a DM situation and slow the group down.  Perhaps once I'm fully imerrsed in the pbp idea, then ill allow some prestige classes from outside the basic stuff (And I have read my share of preisige class books, i.e. spellsword. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />).  Thank you for the suggestion, tho.</blockquote>

Verification