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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 4805356" data-attributes="member: 11146">Caution: long post!I've re-read the module.  There are one or two places in which trapfinding will be critical but overall I wouldn't deem trapfinding to be absolutely essential to successfully conclude the adventure.  Please sally forth with your dragon concept.  I've got a workaround lined up for mfloyd3, which I'll address with him in a moment.ALL PLEASE READ:  If I may be so bold as to put my finger in the party development pie, I have an idea that may work.  The opening scene of the adventure pans to the Swallowtail Festival in Sandpoint.  The Swallowtail Festival this particular year has two purposes, the first of which is to commemorate the first day of Autumn.  The second purpose is to bless and re-dedicate the Sandpoint Cathedral (which itself venerates not just one but six deities).  The Sandpoint Cathedral burned five years ago, so the re-dedication ceremony will be ecumenical and of relative import to multiple faiths.  I propose that your group be selected as emissaries to represent various religious, political, or academic organizations from throughout Golarion.  The Sandpoint Cathedral venerates six deities, so it's appropriate that different faiths and different traditions would desire to send a representative to attend the ceremony.  The cleric and paladin, for example, might have been independently tasked to travel with and protect the coven of arcane magic-users, as well as represent their parent organization at the re-dedication ceremony.  The sorceror/s and mage/s might be from the same institution or different institutions, but could be traveling to Sandpoint to observe the seven ancient standing stones at the Sandpoint Cathedral (untouched by the fire), participate in the goodwill re-dedication ceremony, and/or liaison with Sandpoint's Turandarok Academy--the town academy established for the primary school education of local children and orphans.  The Turandarok Academy has, oddly enough, a veritable reliquary of oddments collected by the headmaster.  Perhaps the oddments in the Academy's museum have attracted outside interest?  Or perhaps some of the realm's wiser sages desire to forge a new relationship with the Academy in order to establish a magic school in Sandpoint (and, as many mages are power-hungry schemers, perhaps later use the Academy as a launch-point for some other nefarious goal)?  Whatever, the case, in this scenario, most of you would be outsiders assigned to travel together to Sandpoint to attend the re-dedication ceremony.  The ranger Elyra might be local and could have been commissioned as a mercenary hire to escort the group from a large starting point city to Sandpoint.  The dragon (played by Ambrus) would have been independently assigned to serve as liaison between the holy order members of the party (the cleric and paladin) and the arcane members of the party (Shayuri and renau1g).  In this scenerio, we have several interesting factions that can come together in interesting ways off and on throughout the adventure...at some point, we might see the group dividing based on gender, while at other points we might see the group dividing based on religious/non-religious affiliation.  Throughout, there's the dragon and the local ranger to serve as intra-party peacekeepers.We have a lot to work with here, so please don't necessarily feel that you have to run with the idea I've laid out above.  If Ambrus's dragon is from Sandpoint, a point about which he and I are in discussion, it could also be that the dragon and the air elemental sorceror to be played by Shayuri could share blood ties.  And, if the lot or you (or most of you) desire to be Sandpoint natives, we can certainly work that idea in as well.  Food for thought.This might imply long-standing friendship, which is desirable since it leads to better party cohesion.  You might address Shayuri and renau1g to see what they're thinking.Sounds like I need to do a write-up in my OP about the Swallowtail Festival, which is the annual festival commemorating the first day of Autumn.  I think after you read about the festival, you might perhaps have some more concrete ideas.  Sounds good.  I like the rp mileage you'd get out of that.Looking over the various encounters in the module, you'd be better served by sticking with Ranger.  We'll want your character to have Disable Device as a class skill, though.  Please add Disable Device to your ranger's class skill list for the purpose of this game, and distribute skill points as you see fit.  Your points may end up more thinly spread, which in the end is likely to prove sufficient balance for the addition of the class skill.</blockquote>

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