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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abraxas" data-source="post: 2053588" data-attributes="member: 1266">How about I give a little background.  It'll do my soul good.No we aren't playing in a low magic campaign, were in the Forgotten Realms.Yes we don't ever have down time - an odd quirk with the gent that DMs, I can't think of a campaign ever run by him where the PCs have more than a day or two down time, and I don't know why.  Its not like we would sit around roleplaying going to the bar every night for three months game time.  He could just say "Four months have passed, email me what your characters wanted to do during that time and I'll get back to you."  But he doesn't.Truth be told, I haven't actually figured out what exactly it is we are doing.We are currently working for an NPC called Abraer Thellblade trying to prevent the return of a vampire that Thellblade had originally stopped - something happened when he and his adventuring buddies did that that caused him to turn away from the church of Lathander.  To this end we have been raiding former lairs of this vampire and his cronies, collecting his remains in bits and pieces.  We really don't trust Thellblade, (it has been suggested that he is somehow under the former vampires control, or he is trying to bring back the vampire himself - but we haven't been able to get any hard info on him to support that - its just a hunch).  In betwixt collecting vampire bits we keep getting side adventures, I get the feeling that the DM has something in store based on these side threads but None of the players has figured out what yet.On one of these jaunts we got sent to the abyss, had to make a deal with a Vrock to get back, then ended up squaring off against the Vrock on the prime because we weren't doing what we said we'd do fast enough (Apparently there was a 12 hour time limit - cause that's how long it was before he came after us).  During that tussle we became a low magic campaign when the vrock's cohort used a scroll of Mordenkainen's Disjunction on us - bye bye magic - Of all the people in the AoE only one ended up with more than 1 magic item survivng (Did I mention we were 7th and 8th level at the time - actually we're 7th, 8th and 9th level right now).  Soon after that my character died so I rolled up a new one and made my first ever (since 1st Ed.) wizard.In the meantime, while waiting on intell for the next lair of the vampire we hiked out for a side quest.  In this side adventure we got a hold of 5 sort of magical, intelligent, adamantine weapons.  A dagger, a punching dagger, a wierd looking scimitar, a great mace, and a baton.  My character is carrying the baton - It grants a +4 to save vs Mind effect spells and a +10 to concentration checks, allows me to cast Calm Emotions 3/day and Psionic Blast 1/day - all for a single negative level cause I'm not the right alignment.  Our party rogue is carrying a dagger that lets him ignore armor and natural armor when he attacks, I don't remember what the other weapons do.  Also, when more than one is being wielded by different characters we get to use the best initiative roll of the bunch.So, for two of us at least, the negative level is well worth it and I'm trying to figure out how to make the alignment switch in character so that I don't have that problem any more.</blockquote>

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