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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9142623" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 147: July 2001part 2/6Pillars of Raven's Bluff: Despite the setbacks, they’re still working hard on converting the Living City to 3e. Here’s some of the more famous NPC’s from the last decade with suitably beefed up 3e stats.Lord Mayor Charles O’Kane has gone from 15th to 18th level since 1994, which isn’t a huge amount considering everything he’s been through, but much of that wasn’t CR appropriate challenges. He was imprisoned during the war, lost the last election and needed his arm regenerated, all of which has left some trauma. But when Lady Amber was exposed as Myrkyssa Jelan and they needed a safe pair of hands, guess who the citizens put back in charge. Statistically he’s not that interesting, just a straightforward high level fighter with good all-round ability scores, but the lengthy interesting history more than makes up for that. Don’t get so caught up in tinkering with clever builds that you forget to actually go out adventuring with a character.Guildmaster Colin O’Lyre is unsurprisingly the head of the city’s Bards. He grew up poor and battled serious illness as a child, which means his singing voice isn’t the greatest, but still managed to work his way to the top by charm and instrumental prowess, as well as being unusually disciplined and law-abiding for a bard. This means his job is about as tricky as herding cats and there’s always plenty to do trying to curb their roguish tendencies. Let’s hope you won’t give him reason to give you a stern dressing down after an adventure.Lady Lauren DeVillars has turned up in these pages many a time, whether in her role as head cleric of Waukeen, (all 20 levels baby!) founder of the knightly orders or overseer of the challenges of champions that determine who gets many important positions in the city. This means she knows pretty much anyone who’s anyone and can settle a lot of problems with just a word in the right ear. Like mayor O’Kane, she used life extending magic for a while, but has recently stopped, which leaves some people scared that the whole place will fall apart when she’s gone. Knowing how the Realms metaplot goes, even if she’s dead in 4e she’ll be back in 5e so no great worries there.Lady Penelope Norwood is the ambitious young(er) evoker who’s just got into the head job at the Ministry of Art. She got the job by chumming up to very disgraced ex mayor Amber Lynn, which obviously means there’s more than a little suspicion on her now. Is she actually loyal to the city, or will she sell it out if it looks like there’s greater power to be had that way? Time will tell if she gets to be a hero or villain in future stories. (or neither, because of outside forces on the setting making her irrelevant)</blockquote>

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