[OOC] Constables of the 14th Ward

[Scotley]

PathfinderQ1 is traveling. I'll give him until about 10:30 central to put in an appearance and then choose an action for Thea to keep things moving along. Look for a post by 11.

 

[Leif]

Only one comment... Leif and I need to have a talk about bucklers...

I'm all ears! Have I done something horrible? The only thing that I can think of concerning bucklers is that constables don't generally wear shields of any sort while on duty. The City Fathers of Lauralie Summerhome don't want their city to even come close to the appearance of an armed camp with heavily armed, armored, shielded, soldier-looking constables on every streetcorner. It is felt that the feeling of security provided to the citizens of Lauralie Summerhome by not having to see their constables walking around as though they were going to war is fair and just compensation for the added risk to the constables. If you have an argument for being allowed to wear a buckler (which is still a tool of warfare, even though it is a small one) on the streets, then you should present your petition to Magistrate Ironshirt, because virtually everything is negotiable with dwarves, after all!

 

[Helfdan]

I'm all ears! Have I done something horrible? The only thing that I can think of concerning bucklers is that constables don't generally wear shields of any sort while on duty. The City Fathers of Lauralie Summerhome don't want their city to even come close to the appearance of an armed camp with heavily armed, armored, shielded, soldier-looking constables on every streetcorner. It is felt that the feeling of security provided to the citizens of Lauralie Summerhome by not having to see their constables walking around as though they were going to war is fair and just compensation for the added risk to the constables. If you have an argument for being allowed to wear a buckler (which is still a tool of warfare, even though it is a small one) on the streets, then you should present your petition to Magistrate Ironshirt, because virtually everything is negotiable with dwarves, after all!

Errr... I've just realized I hate whining. Never mind. And no, you did nothing horrible. (I also realized I love the power attack damage)

 

[Leif]

Errr... I've just realized I hate whining. Never mind. And no, you did nothing horrible. (I also realized I love the power attack damage)

Still, your grumblings have been heard! Look at your page on the wiki.

 

[Lou]

updates to RG

It is in your best interests to keep your character sheet in the Rogue's Gallery as up to date as possible. That's where we'll be going for information about your character. When have a change take a moment to edit your post. By the time the next fight rolls around I expect to have a hard copy of everyone's sheet handy, but for now I've been refering to your posts for things like Armor Class.

I have updated Raul's entry in the Rogue's Gallery. I'm working on the VB stuff so it reads clearly yet has URL links to places on the wiki and here.

 

[Helfdan]

Still, your grumblings have been heard! Look at your page on the wiki.

I'll get back to good old Iggy later today, LOL

 

[xedr]

Darius has a buckler because he was generated before the prohibition on war toys. I wasn't sure that prohibition included bucklers and I never asked. I'll be happy to re-equip Darius according to whatever decree our beloved DMs deign to make.

 

[Helfdan]

Xedr.... Dude.... SHHHHHHHHHHH! What they don't know wont hurt them

 

[xedr]

Helfdan - as you noted, the two-handed power attack damage is awesome. I might drop the buckler in favor of two-handed fighting anyway. I'm not sure, but if I hadn't paid for that masterwork buckler, I mighta had enough money for one of those +1 rings of protection that went on sale after Darius was generated!

 

[Leif]

no shields at all, please

Well, originally, the idea was for the city to have a ban on all medium and heavy armor, shields, helms, etc. But then I realized that elven chainmail was light armor. So, since we couldn't really ban elven chain, since it is light armor, after all, we just added the proviso that you should wear a jerkin, tunic, etc. over the elven chain, so that it isn't really obvious. When you guys operate outside the boundaries of Lauralie Summerhome, of course, this restriction won't apply. And, even moreso, if you find yourself underground in Lauralie Summerhome deeper than the level of the Understreets (this will include pretty much all of the 13th Ward, btw), the restriction is likewise lifted. You see, the whole idea is to make Lauralie Summerhome at least appear to be a calm, peaceful, nice, safe, normal city. But, my goodness, if you've got rats the size of small ponies, and stirges flying around all over the place, I guess the normalcy of Lauralie Summerhome is already pretty much out the window. However, Ignatious Ironshirt is going to be utterly convinced that anybody who wears a shield of any sort is a total wuss!