General Discussion Thread VIII

[Manzanita]

Two has been gone for over a month without posting, and doesn't respond to email. Thus, as judge, and per player preference, I'm going to take over the LPNN thread as DM & play it out. A somewhat truncated version of it anyway.

I'd like a judge to volunteer as, er, judge. Orsal may need a judge too, if he takes over Creamsteak's Vesper's Peak adventure.

 

[Patlin]

At this point of the adventure, unless you make any unexpected detours and keep your employers waiting, I see neither need nor opportunity. That cleric you knocked out certainly won't join you.

I dunno, Xaov is putting the moves on her pretty hard. Maybe she'll go for his character's charm... it's not unprecedented: my wife was fairly hostile to me when I first met her.

 

[Knight Otu]

I dunno, Xaov is putting the moves on her pretty hard. Maybe she'll go for his character's charm... it's not unprecedented: my wife was fairly hostile to me when I first met her.

Paatliin.... that is the warrior.

 

[El Jefe]

Nice Job!

I just noticed that the character thread is looking better than it has in ages, and that all the links in the first post actually work and are useful.

Thanks to whoever's been keeping it looking spiffy!

 

[IcyCool]

What is the etiquette for leaving a game? I'd like to pull my Wizard character, Deos Kirith, out of Gnomework's "The Lost Gem".

 

[Manzanita]

In general, you're allowed to say "I'm leaving" IC, and leave. If you're somewhere in civilization, I'd think you could get back to the RDI no problem. You might also see if the group as a whole wants to call the game quits. If so, your judge should help you out.

 

[Bront]

GW was away for a while due to a move, and I think he may have disapeared again. But if I remember right, that game's been in Limbo for months, so might be best just to get consensus and leave as a group (And a Judge should be able to help you do that quickly, and award any parting XP due).

 

[Bront]

To all non-Festival people
[sblock]Um, is marrying off an absent PC a bad thing to do? It's more of a crossbow wedding, but still...[/sblock]

 

[El Jefe]

Sigh. A Covington wedding, an Orussus divorce.

Part of me says there should be some limit to what you can do to a PC. Another part of me says there should be some limit to the expectations of a player who gets his character in a jam, then goes AWOL.

I'm trying to think of what part of this couldn't be undone relatively easily out of game. Bringing back a dead PC or NPC is problematic. Leaving a PC in a prison in some far off land while the rest of the party returns to Orussus is problematic. But, absent some elaborate writeup in the PC's background declaring his or her love for their childhood sweetheart, what harm does a crossbow wedding do?

If the player doesn't come back, then the PC and the PC's NPC spouse live more or less happily ever after. Roll versus marital bliss DC.

If the player does come back, then they can make arrangements to continue adventuring despite the fact they have a family, a la Rinaldo (our lvl 5 spice merchant!)

OR...the player can make arrangements to abandon their spouse, rather mercilessly. There might be some in-game complications to that...

OR...the player can seek whatever passes for a divorce in whatever region will allow it. Local laws may vary.

OR...the player can make arrangements for their spouse to become "missing". There would probably be an alignment check associated with that one, unless the character was already evil.

I just can't see where this is any more entangling or limits a player's options for a PC any more than, say, the PC making a powerful friend or enemy would do.

 

[orsal]

I'm wondering if that whole post of El Jefe's should have been sblocked. At any rate, I'll sblock my comments.

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Sigh. A Covington wedding, an Orussus divorce.

But, absent some elaborate writeup in the PC's background declaring his or her love for their childhood sweetheart, what harm does a crossbow wedding do?.

To me the issue isn't putting Sunny in the state of being married. It's forcing the DM to take over the character to make important decisions. The current turn of events has placed Sunny front and centre, so that his decision on how to deal with the crisis is crucial to the plot. But that decision says a lot about the character too, so that if the player does return he'll find his character shaped by something he wouldn't have actually done (assuming the DM guesses wrong).

To me, it all comes down to how likely the player is to return. And Sunny's been on autopilot without warning long enough to assume he won't. (I don't count announcement of a one-week business trip as warning of an absence of over a month.) So I'd say, go ahead.
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