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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6857251" data-attributes="member: 22424">In principle, I'd allow the puppet-as-focus in a heartbeat. Other DMs may not, and I'm far from sure how AL would view it.Having said that...I'd think very, very carefully before allowing the concept as a whole. Partly because it runs the risk of being a comedy character entirely at odds with the tone of Ravenloft. Partly because the Gur have a key role to play in the storyline, and a Gur PC may very well be problematic in light of that.And partly because I was in a Ravenloft game that was killed in a single word, by a player who chose to call her character 'Jigglypuff'.I wouldn't like to say &quot;no&quot; out of hand. But I'd definitely want to speak to the player ahead of time to make sure they were going for the right tone - that is, creepy rather than slapstick.(But, again, the structure of AL imposes some different constraints than would simply apply at my table. So that concept may very well be simply a no-no there. Though if you also use the Spell Component Pouch I don't see any space for there to be an issue.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6857251, member: 22424"] In principle, I'd allow the puppet-as-focus in a heartbeat. Other DMs may not, and I'm far from sure how AL would view it. Having said that... I'd think very, very carefully before allowing the concept as a whole. Partly because it runs the risk of being a comedy character entirely at odds with the tone of Ravenloft. Partly because the Gur have a key role to play in the storyline, and a Gur PC may very well be problematic in light of that. And partly because I was in a Ravenloft game that was killed in a single word, by a player who chose to call her character 'Jigglypuff'. I wouldn't like to say "no" out of hand. But I'd definitely want to speak to the player ahead of time to make sure they were going for the right tone - that is, creepy rather than slapstick. (But, again, the structure of AL imposes some different constraints than would simply apply at [i]my[/i] table. So that concept may very well be simply a no-no there. Though if you [i]also[/i] use the Spell Component Pouch I don't see any space for there to be an issue.) [/QUOTE]

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