FitzTheRuke
Legend
Everyone been busy gearing up for Halloween?
(OOC) Scourge of Daggerford (Full)
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gargoyleking
Adventurer
Sorry, wasn't able to respond at the time. I am curious to see if Lady Daggerford tried the apple though, mainly for kicks and giggles.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Oh, right! Here you go...
Yeah, I don't think Titus will mind handing over the reigns. I'll get Titus a post here soon.
I was thinking of the spell I wanted him to get, and it got me thinking. What I'd wanted to do basically boils down to "Magical Services" as a downtime activity. That's not really an option in the books, but that's basically what it is. Titus knows some spells and is offering to use them to help people in order to make a little money. So instead of me trying to build a bunch of items and go through all that rigamarole of costs vs how many I sold and whatnot, why don't we just make one of his three rolls be for "Offering Magical Services", and we see how much he made during that time? Although, a lot of downtime activities are one roll per week, so should I roll once per week for that, or just once overall?
I think I'll have him do some research into his past be another skill check, and open communication with whatever is offering him power be his other one. That way he can try to get some info about what's going on with him, which is a big deal to him. So his three checks would be Offering Magical Services, Researching His Past, and Make Contact with Patron.
Does all that sound ok, or should I go in a different direction?
I was thinking of the spell I wanted him to get, and it got me thinking. What I'd wanted to do basically boils down to "Magical Services" as a downtime activity. That's not really an option in the books, but that's basically what it is. Titus knows some spells and is offering to use them to help people in order to make a little money. So instead of me trying to build a bunch of items and go through all that rigamarole of costs vs how many I sold and whatnot, why don't we just make one of his three rolls be for "Offering Magical Services", and we see how much he made during that time? Although, a lot of downtime activities are one roll per week, so should I roll once per week for that, or just once overall?
I think I'll have him do some research into his past be another skill check, and open communication with whatever is offering him power be his other one. That way he can try to get some info about what's going on with him, which is a big deal to him. So his three checks would be Offering Magical Services, Researching His Past, and Make Contact with Patron.
Does all that sound ok, or should I go in a different direction?
Just looked it over, and I forgot scribing a spell was 50 gp per level. So I’d buy the spell for 75, and then scribe it for another 100. I just don’t have the gold.
How much to buy a lvl 1 Spell? If it’s 50 gp or less, I’d have enough to scribe it, too. I was thinking Unseen Servant.
This also changes my plans for downtime activities, because I don’t really have any spells that could be used for Magical Services yet. So I’ll hold off on that, I guess.
I did look it over, and I seem to remember Titus Pit Fighting at the beginning. And that could be a very lucrative way to make money, from what I’m seeing. So I’ll do that instead.
Would that be one overall roll, or four? Or are we choosing what we are doing week by week and only have one roll for each week?
How much to buy a lvl 1 Spell? If it’s 50 gp or less, I’d have enough to scribe it, too. I was thinking Unseen Servant.
This also changes my plans for downtime activities, because I don’t really have any spells that could be used for Magical Services yet. So I’ll hold off on that, I guess.
I did look it over, and I seem to remember Titus Pit Fighting at the beginning. And that could be a very lucrative way to make money, from what I’m seeing. So I’ll do that instead.
Would that be one overall roll, or four? Or are we choosing what we are doing week by week and only have one roll for each week?
FitzTheRuke
Legend
Does a Warlock really learn spells from scribing them? I don't play Warlocks, but I was always under the impression that the power is granted by your patron. Unless you're talking about a ritual, with your feat, which, yeah, you learn.
Spell Scrolls are 25gp for Level 1 and 75gp for Level 2, but I would add that I think only "common" spells (IE ones that have been in D&D for a long time and are well known) would be readily available. And NONE of them are available in Julkoun. Still, a month is time enough to travel, so you could go to Daggerford, or quite frankly Waterdeep, to go shopping.
I'm not really doing Downtime by the book. For both Downtime, and Overland Travel, I've been doing a simple Skill-check thing, where I just get everyone to come up with a skill (or two or three) and an intention for it, and a roll, and I adjudicate it based on that. I've got some mental guidelines, but mostly it's based on intent, and bad rolls can give us unintended consequences, but not necessarily failure.
You sound like you should roll Arcana as one of your rolls, at least.
If you want to pit-fight, I just re-read some of the early stuff for this game, and it looks like Morwen refereed your first batch, so I doubt that she'd be against you doing some in Julkoun to get the crow's spirits up. It's up to you, though.
Spell Scrolls are 25gp for Level 1 and 75gp for Level 2, but I would add that I think only "common" spells (IE ones that have been in D&D for a long time and are well known) would be readily available. And NONE of them are available in Julkoun. Still, a month is time enough to travel, so you could go to Daggerford, or quite frankly Waterdeep, to go shopping.
I'm not really doing Downtime by the book. For both Downtime, and Overland Travel, I've been doing a simple Skill-check thing, where I just get everyone to come up with a skill (or two or three) and an intention for it, and a roll, and I adjudicate it based on that. I've got some mental guidelines, but mostly it's based on intent, and bad rolls can give us unintended consequences, but not necessarily failure.
You sound like you should roll Arcana as one of your rolls, at least.
If you want to pit-fight, I just re-read some of the early stuff for this game, and it looks like Morwen refereed your first batch, so I doubt that she'd be against you doing some in Julkoun to get the crow's spirits up. It's up to you, though.
gargoyleking
Adventurer
It's only a scribing thing for ritual spells. Like Mord is technically a Pact of the Tome warlock and thus to gain access to magical libraries and such to have spells he can learn. In Titus's case, I believe he has the ritual caster feat which Mord's Book of Ancient Secrets invocation basically gives him.
Yeah, since he has the Ritual Feat, he can scribe wizard spells only in it if they have the Ritual tag.
Could he go to Candlekeep for a few weeks? He can look for the scroll, do research and try to contact his patron there. Not sure how far that is.
I figure Arcana for the Patron, History for his research. I don’t know the third thing. I was trying to think of ways to make money to buy more Rituals, but I don’t really need that. He’d probably rather do some training with his magic. So another Arcana check?
Could he go to Candlekeep for a few weeks? He can look for the scroll, do research and try to contact his patron there. Not sure how far that is.
I figure Arcana for the Patron, History for his research. I don’t know the third thing. I was trying to think of ways to make money to buy more Rituals, but I don’t really need that. He’d probably rather do some training with his magic. So another Arcana check?
gargoyleking
Adventurer
Well, to get into Candlekeep, you normally need to bring a rare book to pay your entry with. Maybe something related to that? (Basing this on the old Baldur's Gate game.)
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