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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9168315" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 148: October 2001part 2/6Pillars of Raven's Bluff: They’re still trying to make the Living City work, so here’s some more conversions of important NPC’s. (only some of which we’ve ever seen in the newszine before because consistency? lol) Apparently you actually got to play them in a recent adventure, letting you experience what it’s like being one of the big guns for a while as you rescued your regular characters. Sounds a bit railroady to me, but at least it’s better than the other way around, where Vecna kills all the high level characters by surprise and then your lower level ones have to face what they couldn’t by more improbable plot twists. Relarn Dayspring appeared plenty of times in the Trumpeter, and is definitely feeling the trauma of having all these newsworthy events happen to him. As a result he’s growing increasingly paranoid and clinging to his Chief Prelate job agains all threats both internal and external. Let’s hope he doesn’t start going all ends justify the means and lose his good alignment & clerical powers, because that would definitely make a mess of the current hierarchy. Tordon Sureblade is also a familiar name, having appeared in the trumpeter three times. Being Lord Magistrate and a paladin of Torm also earns him a fair number of powerful enemies who would prefer the law did not apply firmly but fairly to them. He also has the more mundane woes that come from being in his 50’s, still single and a fish out of water whenever he tries to go to parties to meet someone. A wis and cha of 18 and he still can’t hack it? What do those stats even mean then?! Sheenra Duth is not a name I’ve seen before. One of the highest level Harpers in the city, she foiled a plot by the Bloody Fang Consortium and decided it was an interesting enough place to stick around. Being a high level rogue, she obviously prefers heists as a method of problem-solving, which has definite potential to cause a clash if she’s put into the same team as a paladin. Chaney is a doppleganger, which means he’s eminently suited for the job of Raven’s Bluff’s Chief Spy. (as long as his superiors can keep track of him in turn) He has no real loyalty to them, but is smart enough to see the advantages of having at least one consistent identity that’s drawing a regular paycheck, unlike most of his kin. So he’s even more antiheroish in a way they’d never allow regular PC’s to be, giving you plenty of opportunity to stretch your roleplaying muscles as these 4 worked together to save the city.</blockquote>

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