Redclaw's Eyes of the Lich Queen (Eberron Adventure) (Recruiting Closed)
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EvolutionKB
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I would also like to throw my hat in, with a human duskblade. I'm going to play off wakkawakka here. They would be siblings and with a natural rivalry, the crusader preaching about the divine, while the duskblade sings the glories of arcane magic. Both are capable warriors and they drive each other to great glory(perhaps with House Deneith) where they are hired out to Q'barra to investigate a encroachement by goblins. While there, they meet up with a shifter ranger who has been tracking the goblins. They join forces and together find out that the goblins were only pawns in a larger plot. While ravaging a ruined temple of Q'barra dedicated to The Mockery, they find a contingent of (insert enemies here), with a captive warforged whom they were trying to brainwash using psionic abilities. Clues left behind lead the group of adventurers on to greater things.
Great ideas, guys. Keep them coming! I like the collaboration, but would love another backstory or two to see what best fits the adventure.
I'll give it a few more days (mostly ignoring Wednesday through Friday due to the holiday here in the States) and pick a concept on Sunday, then players/characters next week.
I'll give it a few more days (mostly ignoring Wednesday through Friday due to the holiday here in the States) and pick a concept on Sunday, then players/characters next week.
OnlytheStrong
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Um............ Here is the only other idea I can think of.
We were members of a military unit during a recent war. The war ended and thus the unit was not needed anymore and disbanded
We were members of a military unit during a recent war. The war ended and thus the unit was not needed anymore and disbanded
WakkaWakka
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I kind of like Evolution's spin, bringing forth the "parallel evolution" theory as its best, with the two siblings, but the disbanded unit idea looks more organic to me - less "Town Musicians of Bremen" like, with people flocking in...
But, afterall, it's a fantasy roleplay... and the Town Musicians set a precedent
Could go either way, but if we go with the ex-armymen theme, how about we keep the (friendly) sibling rivalry theme in, Evolution? It could spice things up
But, afterall, it's a fantasy roleplay... and the Town Musicians set a precedent
Could go either way, but if we go with the ex-armymen theme, how about we keep the (friendly) sibling rivalry theme in, Evolution? It could spice things up
Creamsteak
Explorer
WARM UP
Among all kalashtar, few try to do battle with the physical manifestations of evil on Eberron. Still fewer embrace warfare with open arms, undoubtedly because alerting the dreaming dark would bring hostile intentions. Some would even consider such an act a violation certain unwritten rules, that the war between the inspired and the kalashtar is a war between a people, and should not involve the fates of outsiders.
Those that fight in the shadows of Eberron are known as the shadow watchers. They practice the sheshan talarash dasyannah.
Those that fight an active war against the dreaming darkness become atavists the followers of the teachings of Soserath.
And then there's the one idiot trying to make his personal war everyone's business, albeit in the most backwards, underhanded, and enigmatic way. That's Drekhad Drevin.
INTRODUCTION
Drekhad Drevin, or just Drevin to most, took up arms during the last war. He fought on the side of one Prometheus Drevin, some poor bastard who had far too much patriotism for his own good. Prometheus and Drekhad were nothing alike, at first, but the two somehow ended up transforming each other one way or another. Prometheus started to take up meditation, if only to take his mind off the fighting. Drekhad took Prometheus patriotism and made it his own. Something like, "Pride of the Kalashtar, Pride of the Shadow Watcher, Pride of the Atavist, Pride."
Then, before you know it, the war suddenly stops. Prometheus either died or ended up recruited into one of the Brellish secret services, all accounts of this going off the record. More than likely he's either a corpse somewhere out in the Mourneland, or he's working for the Dark Lanterns. Let's hope it's the latter, given the choice of two evils.
Drekhad broke nine-hundred and one Kalashtar oaths and unwritten rules, by best account. He put on some baggy clothes, a big hooded cloak, and went around Sharn gathering vagrants and hoodlums talking about how he was going to make their lives better by taking them out of the slums and going off to save the world. He mentioned the dreaming dark in public, talked about the secret war being fought in the shadows, and openly professed many of his people's secrets. Everyone just assumed he was crazy.
He had a charter drafted by the greediest dwarf he could find. The charter was for his new guild, "Drak'rothog Gorrum." Which is, oddly enough, goblin for "my father is drinking your grog", but that's beside the point. Apparently the dwarf pulled one over on Drekhad in the naming place, and at the end of the day it didn't seem to bug the crazy one.
THE GUILD
So Drekhad tried, desperately, to get every person that didn't have a broken arm or gimp leg to join his guild. No dues, yet. No fees, yet. Pretty much nothing at all, yet. Some signed up and then forgot about it. Others joined and kept it to themselves for the time being. He walked around Sharn, every tower of every district, crying at the top of his lungs to all that could hear, "Would you like to join my guild?" He always promised that somewhere down the line he was going to fight against some great darkness, or inky blob, or something.
Four years later, he rounded off his recruitment with a few people that actually hung around. Some of them seemed convinced that since every person in town seemed to be a part of this "guild" they better join. Others seemed to just assume that somehow hanging around this crazy guy was going to get them work of some kind. Unlucky for them, they were right.
Drekhad's gang was sent to clean out rats nests under Sharn bakeries, kill bug swarms living in the refuse pits, and track down missing pet stirges. This was only a start, though. Before they knew it, they were being hired to run errands across Brelend, then across Khorvaire. At times it seemed like every person they met wanted to make them run laps through some forsaken dungeon out in the middle of nowhere. Eventually they landed in Q'barra working for some "silver-ringed" dwarf who was Stone of the "Higgins and Stone trading company." After a few rounds of Stone's ‘special’ missions (killing entire clans of lizardfolk who were guarding deposits of dragonshards that Higgins and Stone wanted to take to market -tax free), they earned some notoriety reaching as far back as the towers in Sharn.
Nowadays it's become fashionable for the old "guild members" that were recruited years ago to talk about membership. Apparently having signed a piece of paper being flashed around by some crazy freak in dark robes is starting to mean something to the locals. Some of the goblin traders have even overlooked the name.
THE MAN
However, his team has made the guild into their adventuring group. They consider the ranting and raving of their "leader" who is obsessed with "attacking the darkness" to be a bit out of touch. While they thumb through gold and magic treasure looking for the next big score, he keeps going on and on about how every quest is another "blow against the great evil!" Sometimes they have to keep him away from things when business is being discussed. It's not for children's ears after all.
Drekhad might be a little strange by even his own people's standards (hell, ESPECIALLY by their standards), but at the end of the day he seems to know what he's doing on the field... a bit too well. He has some respectable knowledge of tactics, and he's cleverer than one would assume. Perhaps he only seems clever because people presume? Who knows? Either way... slowly more and more figures seem to be taking interest in the group for one reason or another.
MECHANICS
Based on the classes on the list I'd have to go with Bard or Crusader. Probably not a total front-line grunt, I want to build someone around versatility. I'd have to ask the obvious question, "any psionics allowed?", but trust me when I say that I don't need it to build the character. The idea I'm running with here came before the class selection. Then there's the question of playing the warblade (though crusader seems more fun in PbP).
Among all kalashtar, few try to do battle with the physical manifestations of evil on Eberron. Still fewer embrace warfare with open arms, undoubtedly because alerting the dreaming dark would bring hostile intentions. Some would even consider such an act a violation certain unwritten rules, that the war between the inspired and the kalashtar is a war between a people, and should not involve the fates of outsiders.
Those that fight in the shadows of Eberron are known as the shadow watchers. They practice the sheshan talarash dasyannah.
Those that fight an active war against the dreaming darkness become atavists the followers of the teachings of Soserath.
And then there's the one idiot trying to make his personal war everyone's business, albeit in the most backwards, underhanded, and enigmatic way. That's Drekhad Drevin.
INTRODUCTION
Drekhad Drevin, or just Drevin to most, took up arms during the last war. He fought on the side of one Prometheus Drevin, some poor bastard who had far too much patriotism for his own good. Prometheus and Drekhad were nothing alike, at first, but the two somehow ended up transforming each other one way or another. Prometheus started to take up meditation, if only to take his mind off the fighting. Drekhad took Prometheus patriotism and made it his own. Something like, "Pride of the Kalashtar, Pride of the Shadow Watcher, Pride of the Atavist, Pride."
Then, before you know it, the war suddenly stops. Prometheus either died or ended up recruited into one of the Brellish secret services, all accounts of this going off the record. More than likely he's either a corpse somewhere out in the Mourneland, or he's working for the Dark Lanterns. Let's hope it's the latter, given the choice of two evils.
Drekhad broke nine-hundred and one Kalashtar oaths and unwritten rules, by best account. He put on some baggy clothes, a big hooded cloak, and went around Sharn gathering vagrants and hoodlums talking about how he was going to make their lives better by taking them out of the slums and going off to save the world. He mentioned the dreaming dark in public, talked about the secret war being fought in the shadows, and openly professed many of his people's secrets. Everyone just assumed he was crazy.
He had a charter drafted by the greediest dwarf he could find. The charter was for his new guild, "Drak'rothog Gorrum." Which is, oddly enough, goblin for "my father is drinking your grog", but that's beside the point. Apparently the dwarf pulled one over on Drekhad in the naming place, and at the end of the day it didn't seem to bug the crazy one.
THE GUILD
So Drekhad tried, desperately, to get every person that didn't have a broken arm or gimp leg to join his guild. No dues, yet. No fees, yet. Pretty much nothing at all, yet. Some signed up and then forgot about it. Others joined and kept it to themselves for the time being. He walked around Sharn, every tower of every district, crying at the top of his lungs to all that could hear, "Would you like to join my guild?" He always promised that somewhere down the line he was going to fight against some great darkness, or inky blob, or something.
Four years later, he rounded off his recruitment with a few people that actually hung around. Some of them seemed convinced that since every person in town seemed to be a part of this "guild" they better join. Others seemed to just assume that somehow hanging around this crazy guy was going to get them work of some kind. Unlucky for them, they were right.
Drekhad's gang was sent to clean out rats nests under Sharn bakeries, kill bug swarms living in the refuse pits, and track down missing pet stirges. This was only a start, though. Before they knew it, they were being hired to run errands across Brelend, then across Khorvaire. At times it seemed like every person they met wanted to make them run laps through some forsaken dungeon out in the middle of nowhere. Eventually they landed in Q'barra working for some "silver-ringed" dwarf who was Stone of the "Higgins and Stone trading company." After a few rounds of Stone's ‘special’ missions (killing entire clans of lizardfolk who were guarding deposits of dragonshards that Higgins and Stone wanted to take to market -tax free), they earned some notoriety reaching as far back as the towers in Sharn.
Nowadays it's become fashionable for the old "guild members" that were recruited years ago to talk about membership. Apparently having signed a piece of paper being flashed around by some crazy freak in dark robes is starting to mean something to the locals. Some of the goblin traders have even overlooked the name.
THE MAN
However, his team has made the guild into their adventuring group. They consider the ranting and raving of their "leader" who is obsessed with "attacking the darkness" to be a bit out of touch. While they thumb through gold and magic treasure looking for the next big score, he keeps going on and on about how every quest is another "blow against the great evil!" Sometimes they have to keep him away from things when business is being discussed. It's not for children's ears after all.
Drekhad might be a little strange by even his own people's standards (hell, ESPECIALLY by their standards), but at the end of the day he seems to know what he's doing on the field... a bit too well. He has some respectable knowledge of tactics, and he's cleverer than one would assume. Perhaps he only seems clever because people presume? Who knows? Either way... slowly more and more figures seem to be taking interest in the group for one reason or another.
MECHANICS
Based on the classes on the list I'd have to go with Bard or Crusader. Probably not a total front-line grunt, I want to build someone around versatility. I'd have to ask the obvious question, "any psionics allowed?", but trust me when I say that I don't need it to build the character. The idea I'm running with here came before the class selection. Then there's the question of playing the warblade (though crusader seems more fun in PbP).
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That is a hilarious storyline, CS. I haven't had that much fun with exposition in a long time. 
I'm going to say no on the psionics, just because I don't own the books myself. The warblad is a possibility if you're really drawn to it, but I chose the crusader for flavor and pbp fun. I also feel that the divine inspiration flavor explains the crazy Bo9S moves more effectively than mere meditation.
I'm going to say no on the psionics, just because I don't own the books myself. The warblad is a possibility if you're really drawn to it, but I chose the crusader for flavor and pbp fun. I also feel that the divine inspiration flavor explains the crazy Bo9S moves more effectively than mere meditation.
Creamsteak
Explorer
I did some research, considering crusader primarily. A couple things work well, like having a high charisma and low wisdom balancing out with the class features. I think the character concept can be built into the class pretty easily.
A couple questions. There's a feat in Bo9S on page 32 called Psychic Renewal. I'd like to take that so I can spend my Kalashtar power points at times. If you need the info on psionic focus it's detailed below. Inform me if that wouldn't be acceptable.
[sblock=Psionic Focus]Gain Psionic Focus: Merely holding a reservoir of psionic power points in mind gives psionic characters a special energy. Psionic characters can put that energy to work without actually paying a power point cost-they can become psionically focused as a special use of the Concentration skill.
If you have 1 or more power points available, you can meditate to attempt to become psionically focused. The DC to become psionically focused is 20. Meditating is a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. When you are psionically focused, you can expend your focus on any single Concentration check you make thereafter. When you expend your focus in this manner, your Concentration check is treated as if you rolled a 15. It’s like taking 10, except that the number you add to your Concentration modifier is 15. You can also expend your focus to gain the benefit of a psionic feat - many psionic feats are activated in this way.
Once you are psionically focused, you remain focused until you expend your focus, become unconscious, or go to sleep (or enter a meditative trance, in the case of elans), or until your power point reserve drops to 0.[/sblock]
The combo would basically be usable 1/encounter to refresh an expended manuever.
A couple questions. There's a feat in Bo9S on page 32 called Psychic Renewal. I'd like to take that so I can spend my Kalashtar power points at times. If you need the info on psionic focus it's detailed below. Inform me if that wouldn't be acceptable.
[sblock=Psionic Focus]Gain Psionic Focus: Merely holding a reservoir of psionic power points in mind gives psionic characters a special energy. Psionic characters can put that energy to work without actually paying a power point cost-they can become psionically focused as a special use of the Concentration skill.
If you have 1 or more power points available, you can meditate to attempt to become psionically focused. The DC to become psionically focused is 20. Meditating is a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. When you are psionically focused, you can expend your focus on any single Concentration check you make thereafter. When you expend your focus in this manner, your Concentration check is treated as if you rolled a 15. It’s like taking 10, except that the number you add to your Concentration modifier is 15. You can also expend your focus to gain the benefit of a psionic feat - many psionic feats are activated in this way.
Once you are psionically focused, you remain focused until you expend your focus, become unconscious, or go to sleep (or enter a meditative trance, in the case of elans), or until your power point reserve drops to 0.[/sblock]
The combo would basically be usable 1/encounter to refresh an expended manuever.
OnlytheStrong
Explorer
WakkaWakka said:I kind of like Evolution's spin, bringing forth the "parallel evolution" theory as its best, with the two siblings, but the disbanded unit idea looks more organic to me - less "Town Musicians of Bremen" like, with people flocking in...
But, afterall, it's a fantasy roleplay... and the Town Musicians set a precedent
Could go either way, but if we go with the ex-armymen theme, how about we keep the (friendly) sibling rivalry theme in, Evolution? It could spice things up
I think that pretty much a mixture of concepts is a theme that will probably be used.
The only problem I see with Creamsteak's idea (and it is funny
) is that it makes him famous and well known, not the group. I would assume that the "errands" that you mentioned would be rather unlawful (which I'm fine with), but was curious as to if it would be viewed as good or evil? They are lizardfold, but we would be basically killing them for money. I just wanted to know how the city would feel about that. I love your character concept lol. He sounds funny as hell. (don't take my post as me not liking your concept, I was torn over whether or not to write anything. I figured that I should ask at least. Thanks Creamsteak!)
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