Heroes, Inc - Heroic Mercs in FR OOC Thread

[kirinke]

Ooo. Speaking of that. I'm thinking the demon is nudging Alethia gently towards the exalted path, eventually hoping to be absolved of his own sins at the same time by guiding her. His personality is a bit like the Cheshire Cat from American McGee's Alice if that makes any sense.

 

[DM_Matt]

Looking at what spells Fin and Arundel are likely to prepare for tomorrow... are you allowing spells from Book of Exalted Deeds?

It's the place to go when the evil outsiders are acomin'...

-Hyp.

Yes I am. And yeah, in a campaign with lots of demons and extremely mighty ancient evils, BOED is a very good thing to have around, both for flavor and crunch reasons. I still might overrule a spell or two.

Ooo. Speaking of that. I'm thinking the demon is nudging Alethia gently towards the exalted path, eventually hoping to be absolved of his own sins at the same time by guiding her. His personality is a bit like the Cheshire Cat from American McGee's Alice if that makes any sense.

Cool. Its possible that he'll get a plot arc in the enar future btw.

 

[kirinke]

*insert evil grin here*
Look forward to it. With all the demon fighting going on, it's more than probable that Alethia will run into a creature that recognizes the demon riding in her. An idea that I've been kicking around is that those cultists who had kidnapped her were trying to corrupt her by binding the demon to her soul and turning her into a powerful servant of evil. The spell worked, but the demon wasn't inclined to cooperate. He took her over briefly and slaughtered the cultists. He's the reason why she doesn't quite remember the details. And they both hate most other demons and other evils with a passion. Hence her tendency to glow with wrath when she's confronted by such things. If you got any ideas on it, email me. I think I'm more evil with my characters than most DM's would be.

As far as her levels/future go, I'm thinking on letting her concentrate more on her clerical side than her ranger side. Both are important to her, but I can see her becoming more spiritual as the adventure progresses.

 

[kirinke]

Matt? If it's ok, I'd like Alethia to have the spell Celestial Brilliance. It's a fourth level spell and a pretty nifty fourth level spell at that.

 

[DM_Matt]

Sure. I might decrease the duration though. BTW, it occurred to me that there are a nuymber of spells in there that are open only to celestials, which you may want to look at. (They have "celestial" in the components line). Also, if you are trying to become more clericey in a gradual way, and if you want this, I will provide the option of an in-game questish thing that would let you trade in some of your ranger levels for cleric ones.

 

[kirinke]

Thanks. Traded out death ward for it. Hmm. How about a twist on that? If you'd allow it, I'd like her to slowly gain the half-celestial template via the same mechanics you described, maybe spread out over 3 or four levels, depending on if you want to use the FR option gained template rule. The final part of it would have her gaining wings and exalted status. It'd make a kind of sense, especially if the demon is in fact helping to awaken her celestial heritage as part of that redemption package.

Barring that, perhaps having her do something suitably heroic/self-sacrificing and having her get the template that way. Either option would be fun to play. If we go the second route, I'd be happy to trade some of her ranger levels for clerical ones.

 

[DM_Matt]

Thanks. Traded out death ward for it. Hmm. How about a twist on that? If you'd allow it, I'd like her to slowly gain the half-celestial template via the same mechanics you described, maybe spread out over 3 or four levels, depending on if you want to use the FR option gained template rule. The final part of it would have her gaining wings and exalted status. It'd make a kind of sense, especially if the demon is in fact helping to awaken her celestial heritage as part of that redemption package.

Barring that, perhaps having her do something suitably heroic/self-sacrificing and having her get the template that way. Either option would be fun to play. If we go the second route, I'd be happy to trade some of her ranger levels for clerical ones.

Hmmm. Trading levels is a lot easier. The buy method is a weird XP formula and I prefer that the PCs all level at once upon completing certain campaign objectives (for instance, the first time you leveled was upon completing the Waterdeep Prologue). Also, staying away from the specific numbers allows powerful PCs AND powerful enemies without some weird rebalancing, and even still, the CR system is not made for such large parties. Finally, going from an Aasimar to a Half-Celestial is mechanically less simple tan it appears. Aasimars can't have the Half-Ceelestial template, since they are by definition humans with less than half celestial blood in them. I would acutally have to turn you both into a Half-Cel AND a Human, or else make up a new race that is essentially a featureless base with the Half-Cel on it and then figure out how to balance it. I'll think about ways to work this, but trading levels certainly seems more streightforward.

 

[Hawkeye]

My computer is down. Hope to be back up Tuesday or so.

Hawkeye

 

[kirinke]

Trading in some ranger levels does sound nice at first thought, but she'd loose the benifits of those ranger levels. I'm thinking that she will concentrate on her clerical levels from now on as her spiritual side becomes stronger. We really need a fighter whose strength is ranged weaponry and if she traded in her ranger levels, she'd become less effective in that area. After a night's thought, I think she'll maybe keep her ranger levels unless something in game happens. After all, tis only more chances for good roleplaying.

 

[DM_Matt]

Trading in some ranger levels does sound nice at first thought, but she'd loose the benifits of those ranger levels. I'm thinking that she will concentrate on her clerical levels from now on as her spiritual side becomes stronger. We really need a fighter whose strength is ranged weaponry and if she traded in her ranger levels, she'd become less effective in that area. After a night's thought, I think she'll maybe keep her ranger levels unless something in game happens. After all, tis only more chances for good roleplaying.

Alrighty, although ironically trading in those levels almost certainly make you a BETTER archer. Trading in four levels sacrifices one feat and one point of BAB, trading 6, 2 feats and 2 Bab. The increased power and availability of self-buffing spells (not to mention the power and availability of other spells) far outstrips those benefits, espcailly if you keep the two ranger levels.