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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5955036" data-attributes="member: 55680">Well it seems I'm the old man in this thread (being 31) so it's to be expected that the people in college will be busy on vacation and whatnot. I'll write up a big extensive post fleshing out the Olmsteds later but here's some more rough ideas for now:A while back my kick-off adventure for an Icelandic Saga-based campaign with Conan d20 rules included some Viking festivities including Viking stickball and horse fighting. It resulted in a PC castrating a horse and flinging what he had cut off at its owner's face because that's what PCs do and was a lot of fun, so I thought I'd recycle some of that, add in a bit of Korean stuff and have the main sources of entertainment in the Lands of the Night Cattle (including Olmsted Keep) be stickball and bullfighting. Bullfighting involves two bull fighting each other by locking horns and trying to push the other back. These bulls are often ones that are marred in someway and cannot be sold to temples and are often bet on heavily. Often bulls from two different keeps will fight with the winner granting its home fertility in the coming year. Stickball involves a long stick and a bladder ball and is a bit like field hockey only a lot more violent and with a bigger ball.For the Olmsted family itself we have established Zeem/Barnabus Olmsted, his dead son Alard (at the Garden of Amelar) and his daughter Nara who's living off at Cragsend. We've also established that people can be adopted into the family if they're half elves and that the Lord has no other living sons.I'll use this: <a href="http://matt-landofnod.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/family-feuds.html" target="_blank">THE LAND OF NOD: Family Feuds</a> generator that chutup used earlier and tweak it a bit to make up more Olmsted people.Lord Zeem has one sibling who is female, let's call her Aerlane. She is married and I'll say (making this up) that there's a 75% chance her husband is alive. Nope, he's dead. She has no children and Lord Zeem only has one other daughter aside from Nara. That's a small family then, I suppose the adopted members can be used to fill it out a bit. Aerlane herself has 9 charisma, is a merchant anmd is generally ambitious and domineering. I'll say that she runs the financial end of the Keep, especially with her brother being Barnabus part of the time due to his were-man infection. The other daughter, meanwhile, is married and has two young daughters. Her husband is *rolls* also dead. Damn all of the males of this family keep on dying, what's up? The daughter is named Ronya, has a sanguine personality and 12 charisma. She's an artisan. I'll say that she's a talented painter of irreverent images.Let's make up six adopted half-elves while we're at it.1. Adult Female Cha 10 Cleric Sanguine2. Adult Female Cha 9 "Venturer" Sanguine 3. Adult Female Cha 7 Merchant Melancholy 4. Adult Female Cha 9 Merchant Choleric5. Adult Male Cha 11 Artisan Sanguine6. Middle-aged Female Cha 13 Sage SanguineI swear that all of this slanting towards female is completely random.Since there's only one (!) male adopted or otherwise in the entire family I'm saying that Aerlane is angling to marry him to cement her power after Zeem dies while there's an anti-Aerlane faction pushing him to marry Ronya. Meanwhile everyone's wondering where all of the male half-elves have gone...For assets, aside what has already been established, the Olmsted have:-Tied by blood to a noble family (I'll have that mean that the rumors that Zeem Olmsted is the Bloodied King's son are true).-Enjoys a family blessing, ancestor was saint or martyr-Lots of silver: I'll combine the last two and have their main hall be covered with fanciful whirls of silver sculpture, which has the natural effect of bringing heal and good feelings to those within the hall (double natural healing, gives those within a new saving throw against disease or poison)-Has a seat on the King's privy council: hmmmm, I'll have this be that elves sometimes drop by during the day to ask Zeem advice about human matters.-Has a hired duelist and all family members have been trained. Nifty! This generator says that the duelist is goal-oriented and vengeful. He's obviously very obsessed with getting revenge. What's he doing with the Olmsteds?<img src="http://nighthawknews.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/inigo1.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Let's do this randomly. He wants revenge on whatever is the closest to a random hex. Let's see which hex: 07.13, that's closest to 06.13. I'll interpret that to mean that he swore an oath and blood brother to someone (see 06.13) and his blood brother betrayed him and how he's out for vengeance. Who is his blood brother? The dice say that it's one of the southern dwarves. So we have a southern dwarf Inigo Montoya who adventured with another southern dwarf, swore that they were blood brothers and then his blood brother did what? Let's go to TV Tropes and pick some random tropes for ideas.  We get: <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SealedEvilInATeddyBear" target="_blank">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SealedEvilInATeddyBear</a> Hmmmmm, what? I'll have to sleep on this one...</blockquote>

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