[Pathfinder] Burnt Offerings

[Ambrus]

Teenage vampire romance. Oh the angst...

Hope the little one feels better soon.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I'm catching up on my posting. I'm starting my replies to posts made on page 6, so since we're currently on page 8, please forgive any repetition on my part.

It is at this time that a wizard and a few underlings from Magnimar are in town to study the standing stones and, it's believed, investigate the Old Light as well.

An investigation of the Old Light might not work...someone else material to this game has already laid claim to the Old Light, and outside investigations by visiting wizards might make "backstory trouble." I'll double check my facts on the Old Light and get back to you. The rest of the backstory for Talashia is no problem at all. I'm working through the character repository in order and will post more comments for you about Talashia and stats when I come to her stuff in the repository thread.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Sounds good to me. He's a first-level PC, so he can't have run it, but if this was, say, part of his final journeyman training, it connects him to the town, the temple, and gives him a reason to be ready to go anywhere else, since his job is now finished.

Sounds like a fine and dandy reason to be in town, and a good reason to be present at the temple re-dedication ceremony. Your character shouldn't need more than perhaps just one rank in the engineering skill to be considered a journeyman.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

A note: Talashia has the basic mage skills (Spellcraft and Knowledge Arcana), but is not by any means "scholarly." It's unlikely she'd be sent alone to do more than simply observe and/or collect results, I'd think...unless the mage guilds are desperate for manpower.

Or unless there are mitigating circumstances.

Gads, ENWorld is slow tonight.

Just confirming that there's no need for Talashia to be "scholarly," and I'm not planning on making any mage guilds a prominent feature of Sandpoint. At present moment, the Turandarok Academy is a school for local children, not a wizard's academy. While it's possible that that might change between today and the start of the game, it's unlikely.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Seriously, if you want to go that route, we could have them be siblings or cousins. Have a look at her backstory and see what you think. No reason they couldn't be strangers -- There must be some number of Varisians whose teen rebellion consisted of leaving their nomadic life to take up, er, a nomadic life.

Having them be siblings works for me. As I've said in the past, the more ties you can generate to each other and the story, the better.

As noted, I'll drop Elyra's Disable Device and pick up an alternative. Are you leaning more toward a melee-centered rogue or a ranged one?

Just weighing in that dropping Disable Device is a good idea if the rogue plans to pick up that skill. Then again, having two people in the party able to work on traps might not be all that bad...

 

[CanadienneBacon]

My dragon is a primary melee combatant, as is our half-orc cleric I believe.

Don't forget Walking Dad's paladin, Sivan.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I had thought of Tac's tribe as a more honest lot, where he left them not because they were bad, but because his analytical mind just wasn't right for the instinctual, free-spirits of his kin. But if you want to co-mingle backgrounds, I'd be all for that. And having a cousin in Sandpoint might give Elyra more reason to be visiting?

I haven't finished statting him, but at a thought: Tac didn't have the same moral dilemmas that Elyra had, but since he knew he didn't love performing so much as figuring out how things worked, maybe he begged to accompany Elyra when she left (I think he's going to be slightly younger than her)? She took him along to keep an eye out for him, until he found apprenticeship in the engineering guildhalls.

There could have been more than one family in the circus, which would allow for both Elyra and Tac to leave together.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Are all our humans Varisian? If so it'd be good if everyone had Varisian as a language. I might be wrong, but I believe it's the default spoken language throughout Varisia.

Erm, I'm less sure of this than you appear to be. I think the Chelaxians might strongly object to Varisian being the default language of the setting. Then again, I certainly haven't kept up with the myriad supplements produced by Paizo since early 2008, so Varisian could well have been laid down as the default language.

Regardless, everyone having a language in common other than Common is a handy idea for those times when you want to converse semi-privately in a public atmosphere. It's sometimes a rarity that a gaming group can converge abilities well enough to be able to pull it off, though.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Madam DM, I know you've closed recruiting (and even have a first alternate) but if a spot opens up for me I'd love to play a PF Monk. I'll put my idea here in a spoiler just in case something opens up in the future.

I'm going to make what amounts to one of the ultimate confessions in DMing. I hate the monk class and I (apparently, having looked at my track record) never select monks to play in my PbP games. I'll tack you on for second alternate after Voadam. Thanks for posting your interest; if a spot opens up, I'll let you know, but will probably ask you to play something other than a monk. If that's not your cup of tea, no problem!

And I apologize to all the monk-lovers out there...please don't beat me up with a ninja stick

 

[CanadienneBacon]

At a local tavern, Chaine tried to pick the pocket of an elderly man who turned out to be a wizard. The old man scared Chaine off with a well-chosen illusion, but the young Varisian lad came back the very next day, his curiosity getting the better of him. He eventually befriended the old man, learning that there were other ways to command the powers arcane than simply being born with it. It could be learned! And what's more, it could be taught.

Just confirming that I'm not planning on including a large contingent of wizards in Sandpoint. Not that it couldn't turn into that down the road in a relatively short amount of time (due, in part, to how this adventure ends), but for right now while sizeable, Sandpoint doesn't have many arcane types. There are a few notable exceptions, though.

I will certainly do a work-up on the "old man" you mention above. Maybe he'll have a desire to float out to sea in a boat to catch the fish of his life...[/joke]...'cause Sandpoint's by the sea...and he's an old man...old man and the s---never mind.