stonegod's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: Ch. II [OOC]

[James Heard]

[sblock=Stonegod]Geez Stonegod, making Janis more crazy than she already is? Why do you hate Barovia so much?

How much more aggressive should Janis be? Alignment's always been an issue for the thing... can she still vent her rages conversationally, or is she going to be cutting b#$%es up?

The werewolf thing, is she now depraved enough that she's no longer spending AP's to resist it?

Does this mean Janis can take her next level in Fighter, or some sort of cutting people up class?

Being a pretty tightly controlled (some might claim, um, wound up) individual, is she going to notice that she's a teensy bit more bloodthirsty than she (me, her conscience, thinking "Gosh, she needs to get pulled back a bit before she poisons the party.") has been explicitly trying to reign back from?


Part of me says that Ireena better start sleeping with scissors under the pillow or something, because a more aggressive Janis is a hair away from a NE Janis. Reigning in her overt aggression, and trying to give her some sort of focus other than abusing people with words, has really been the only thing I've been relying on to distinguish her from a villain. It's not like she likes anyone but the bear. She feels responsible for the villagers, and they somewhat simplify her complicated motivations when I'm writing her, but she could just as easily be their dark overlord as some sort of folk hero.

If this keeps up I'm going to end up figuring an angle to Paladin her just to protect the world from the dark urges I've apparently wrote into her enough that just a little tipping point starts snowballing like this.[/sblock]

 

[stonegod]

[sblock=James]

How much more aggressive should Janis be? Alignment's always been an issue for the thing... can she still vent her rages conversationally, or is she going to be cutting b#$%es up?

Janis isn't a beserker by any means, and murderous is actually the Severe level of this trait. So I would think that being more b****y than normal, and less round about it, would be clear. And I think she'd relish in the violence as well. But, its is ultimately up to you. I sort of see it as the depravity is lowering her inhibition about being aggressive, so she'd be far less indirect w/ her barbs, for example.

The werewolf thing, is she now depraved enough that she's no longer spending AP's to resist it?

Not something I'd force (at this level, anyway). She might toy with the idea, but she still knows she'd loose her self, and being aggressive doesn't mean you've lost your sense of self preservation.

Does this mean Janis can take her next level in Fighter, or some sort of cutting people up class?

Nothing was stopping her before, though I don't think it'd be ideal. Druids can be awfully aggressive on their own w/ their weapons and or battle shapes.

Being a pretty tightly controlled (some might claim, um, wound up) individual, is she going to notice that she's a teensy bit more bloodthirsty than she (me, her conscience, thinking "Gosh, she needs to get pulled back a bit before she poisons the party.") has been explicitly trying to reign back from?

She's going to notice it, and probably the party as well. I see depravity as going mad and knowing its happening. Its a horror story, after all... folks don't escape unscathed.

So, just remember: This stage is *mild* depravity... a strong quirk, but not debilitating yet. It gets magnified at higher depravity levels.
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[stonegod]

Oh, and one other thing... anyone with taint can try to fight it. They definitely know something's going wrong, even if they can't stop it immediately. Appropriate Knowledge checks or discussion with knowledgeable folks would help there.

 

[Stormwind]

@stonegod: I'm just leveling Ashlyn, and I had a question regarding smite undead: It states 'as smite evil' so I was wondering if that would mean that you count levels in other classes that grant smite (paladin) when you are determining smite undead damage?

i.e. whether the smite undead should do:

• +2 damage (counting Knight of the Raven levels only)
• +8 damage (counting Paladin and Knight of the Raven levels)

 

[stonegod]

@stonegod: I'm just leveling Ashlyn, and I had a question regarding smite undead

• +Cha to hit, +2 damage (counting Knight of the Raven levels only)

Also, when you roll a nat 20, you double this damage.

But who cares about smite: You can talk to ravens!

 

[Stormwind]

Cool. Well, Ashlyn is leveled to 8.

@stonegod: Just a quick note, I think you have the wrong total for Ashlyn's xp:

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- Ashlyn: 28825 (Really 8th!)
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I believe the total should be 31443xp
[15500 (Initial xp), 428 (Battle at the Crossroads), 1757 (Expedition to the Church), 720 (Surprise in the Blood), 360 (The Chase/Questions Abound), 720 (Under the Tower), 2160 (The Ecaterine Husk), 975 (Ghoul Grave), 720 (Shifter Ambush), 2160 (Jarrith's Curse), 1575 (Forest Trials), 1750 (The Summoning), 2618 (The Chapel)]

 

[Stormwind]

But who cares about smite: You can talk to ravens!

... Yep ... absolutely the coolest ability Ashlyn has
Now she can finally chat with Huurn

 

[stonegod]

Stormwind Feel free to put the correct total. Please put Koppri's stats in your sheet, and remember you cast spells as a 7th level paladin now (paladin levels + (knight levels -1)).

To get technical on the rest thing...
Jarrith, Marot, and Khensu are fatigued (they don't have rings); Ashlyn will be fatigued in two more hours as she never rested (Tessa got some rest already). However, if Janis wants to prepare spells, she'll need to rest two more hours anyway (she need 8 hours total of rest for wizard spells, +1 hour for each interruption). Not an issue for Druid spells.

And Janis' energy drain will become negative levels unless she saves (for each) in less than 24hrs.

 

[s@squ@tch]

The hit to STR and DEX shouldn't impact Marot much from a technical standpoint, since touch AC's are quite low, but he should expect to hear more 'voices' in his head and/or see more things moving that shouldn't be due to the fatigue.

 

[Stormwind]

Stormwind Feel free to put the correct total. Please put Koppri's stats in your sheet, and remember you cast spells as a 7th level paladin now (paladin levels + (knight levels -1)).

I already have Korppi's stats included on Ashlyn's sheet (sblock just above her picture), or did you mean something else?

I know that Ashlyn casts spells as a 7th level Paladin, but it doesn't change anything (no extra spells, no additional spells known, and CL is still 3). Next level she gets more of everything