(Suspended) OOC 3.5 Eberron Shipwrecked Campaign

[doghead]

Ayais Paeir is the eldest son of an honored eldest son of an honored eldest son, putting him in the position to continue his tribe's legacy into the future and granting him the Right of Counsel feat. Being called as a cleric instead of a wizard was a bad sign to start, but Ayais questioning the wisdom of being deathless sent the tribal leaders into a frenzy. While he served his time as a squire to the deathless with honor, his questions made his superiors anxious to put it mildly. His superiors decided unofficially to send Ayais out into the world in hopes he would die without a legacy granting him nobility.

When the three paragon levels are earned, a strange truth comes out: Ayais is not a full-blooded elf at all, leading to the paragon levels being half-elf instead of elf.

Gosh.

First a wanna be fighter/magic-user in the grand elf tradition with an exaggerated view of his own cleverness. Now a scion of an honoured elf family. So Rain is caught between the rock of her own racial arrogance and the hard place of her .. well, her own personal flaw. What a tangled web we weave for our brave adventurers. Will it tie them together in bonds forged in shared adversity, or entangle them all in personal tragedy. Stay tuned to find out.

(It sounds much better if you read it in the voice of a 60's radio announcer.)

I was also thinking of taking Right of Council for Rain. The honour of the Right would be like a counterpoint to abomination of her draconic ancestory. Is she permitted to speak to her ancestors? Is she even permitted to enter to City of the Dead? Or even to live? Diplomacy I think may be a key skill for Rain. Perhaps I should choose a dragon that provides it as a class skill. Yes, a good idea I think.

...

Nnnooooooooooooooooo!

There is not a single dragon with Diplomacy as a class skill. Nor is it a class skill for Sorcerer's or Rangers. Rain is so screwed.

thotd

 

[Scott DeWar]

Nnnooooooooooooooooo!

There is not a single dragon with Diplomacy as a class skill. Nor is it a class skill for Sorcerer's or Rangers. Rain is so screwed.

thotd

7 ways to Sunday, and tomorrow is Sunday

 

[Yttermayn]

Mostly worked out Yarvok's mechanics. DM opinion?:
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Yarvok
Alignment:Chaotic Neutral
Deity: None
Race: Human
Class: Warlock (1),Human Paragon (3)

Experience Points: 0

AbilityScores

Strength: 10 (+0)
Dexterity: 15(+3)
Constitution: 13 (+1)
Intelligence: 10(+0)
Wisdom: 10(+0)
Charisma: 19 (+4) (+2 Human Paragon)

CombatStats

Hit Points: 34 (3d8+1d6+4)
Armor Class: 13 ; +0[Armor]; +3 [dexterity]
Touch Armor Class: 13
Flat-FootedArmor Class: 10
Speed: 30
Initiative: +7 = +3 [dexterity] +4[Improved Initiative]
Base Attack Bonus: +2
Grapple: +0[strength]
Melee Attack: +2
Ranged Attack: +5

SavingThrows

Fortitude Save: +2 = 1[Con] +1[HP] +0[War]
ReflexSave: +4 = 3[Dex] +1[HP] +0[War]
Will Save: +7 = 2[Base] +3[HP]+2[War]

Skills of Note
Concentration 5 = +4[Ranks]+1[Con]
Use Magic Device 8 = +4[Ranks] +4[Cha]
Spot 4 = +4[Ranks] +0[Wiz]
Spellcraft4 =+4[Ranks] +0[Int]
Intimidate8 =+4[Ranks] +4[Cha]
Hide 5 =+2[Ranks] +3[Dex]
MoveSilently 5 =+2[Ranks] +3[Dex]


Weapons
EldritchBlast: 2d6+1, +6 to hit (+3 dex +2 BAB +1 point blank shot), ½ dmgto objects
Longbow:1d8+1, +6 to hit (+3 dex +2 BAB +1 point blank shot)


Feats

1stLevel: Point Blank Shot (+1 to hit & Damage within 30’)
HumanBonus Feat: Precise Shot (No -4 penalty firing into melee)
2^ndLevel Human Paragon Feat: Improved Initiative
EventuallyWanna get: Scribe Scroll, Extra Invocation


Invocations
Spiderwalk– 20’ move on walls and ceilings, immune to normal and magicalwebs.
SickeningBlast – Fort Save, -2penalty on all attackrolls,weapon damage rolls, savingthrows,skillchecks,and abilitychecks.

RacialTraits
Size: Medium.
Speed: 30 feet
AutomaticLanguages: Common
Bonus Feat
BonusSkill Point each level
3^rdLvl Human Paragon:
MartialWeapon: Longbow
+2Charisma
BonusFeat
AdaptiveLearning Skill: Spot
12Skill Points
Any10 Skills designated as class skills for paragon levels. (Skills ofnote listed above, minus Warlock skills, plus: , , , , )

Gear/Equipment/Valuables
NADA!

Whathe’s often Carrying:
Nothing at this time.

Description

Weight:152
Gender: Male
Description:


Yarvokis a darkly handsome youth with a sardonic sense of humor, which winshim chuckles from others and ire from the target of his humor. Hehas rapidly learned to be unsurprised at the attention he receivesfrom females. Men have also occasionally tried to get close to him. They are quickly rebuffed though, rarely taking more than a glance ofa hellfire-lit eye to get the message. Yarvok’s angsty, teen badboy personality combined with his smoldering good looks have gottenhim both into and out of several situations. One such situationinvolved a lonely merchant’s wife in a port city, bored and withtoo much idle time on her hands. Yarvok returned once again to supfrom his sugarmomma, but she was no where to be found. He had a badfeeling that maybe they'd been found out or worse. The transactionof services and goods between them had netted him enough money to buypassage on a ship to Stormreach and a few meals, and he skipped townwithout ever finding out what had happened.

Background

Yarvokis pragmatic to the point of ruthlessness. At the age of 16, much tohis mothers delight, his warlock powers began to manifest. He had noidea who his father was. His mother was a witch, living out herexistence and raising her son in the sheltering embrace of a darkforest. Yarvok had never really had any interest in the dark arts hismother continuously pressed him towards, but ultimately, she won thatlittle contest of will. One day, as he was doing his favoriteactivity, (target shooting with a longbow he had been given for hisbirthday) his mother approached him. He ignored her as was his usualresponse, until her hand came to rest gently on his hip. "Such ahandsome young man..." she started. Yarvok paused, his aimingeye rolling to glance back at her as she pressed herselfuncomfortably close. "Have I ever told you of your father? Hisname is -" Yarvok never heard the rest. Baleful images suddenlyclouded his mind and his eyes. In them, he saw his mother, muchyounger than she was now. She was speaking in a foul soundinglanguage to a dark, man shaped figure. Two pinpoints of white hotlight emanated from where the figures eyes should have been. Thefigure held out a piece of parchment. His mother drew a small bladeand sliced her wrist, dribbling it on the parchment and smearing theblots into an arcane mark. The dark figure then rolled up theparchment and consumed it. The scene then changed, and now his motherwakes in the middle of the night, finding a dark and familiar shapestanding at the end of her bed. In an instant, the figure is on her,and Yarvok understands what he's seeing to be the night of hisconception. Through inborn infernal logic, he comes to understand thenature of the deal struck by his mother: She sold the soul of her yetunmade child to some abyssal being.
Shesold HIS soul. His fury overwhelmed him and he lashed out, not withhis body, but with the arcane fire that seethed within him! He hearda deep, resonant, and thou roughly vile laughter in his mind, andwhen his vision cleared, his mother lay before him - dead. The samevoice sounded again "The deal is struck, son. You got the power,and you delivered me her soul. She should have realized you cannotsell someone else’s soul. You only succeed in damning your own.Revenge is sweet, and never again will she use my true name to bindme to her petty pursuits!" The presence in his mind fadedcompletely, leaving Yarvok alone with his dead mother.
Feelingambivalent and stunned, Yarvok sat there in the dirt beside the bodyfor a long while. Finally, the pragmatic part of his brain took overand he began the task of burying her. He wasn't terribly afraid ofretribution from local officials; they only came this far out once ayear to collect taxes. Nonetheless, he had no desire to stay in thisplace any longer. He scavenged what goods he could from the cottagehe'd lived most of his life in, shoved a burning stick from thefireplace up into the thatch of the roof, and headed out the door.


Notes:


Airwalkrr'srules for Human Paragon and Warlock level interaction:


Foreach +1 level of existing class, a warlock advances a) invocationsknown, b) power of invocations known (least, lesser, etc.), c) levelof invocations and eldritch blast, and d) damage of eldritch blast asif he had gained +1 warlock level. You do not gain detect magic,damage reduction, or any other class-based features of the warlockclass. So as a 1st-level warlock/3rd-level human paragon, you wouldknow 2 invocations (same as a 3rd-level warlock), which may be takenfrom the least lists. Your access to invocations of higher powerwould be two levels higher than usual (so upon reaching 4th-levelwarlock/3rd-level human paragon you will gain access to lesserinvocations as well). Your invocation level and eldritch blast levelwould be 3rd (for purposes of overcoming spell resistance,determining duration, etc.; same as a 3rd-level warlock). And youreldritch blast would deal 2d6 damage (same as a 3rd-levelwarlock).

Thiseffect does not stack for other spell-casting classes. So if youchose to take a level of wizard, you would be treated as a 1st-levelwizard if you chose to advance your human paragon levels as awarlock.
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[airwalkrr]

For my third level feat, I am considering the following:


Favored power att [comp. warr pg 98] oversized 2 wpn fighting [comp. advn pg 111] *<--

do you allow those sources?
do you have those books?

Samon's preferred fighting style was double dwarvin war axes,
which are one handed melee weapons [exotic dwarvin] so the
oversized weapon would be logical for him to take.

what say you boss?

The only additional feats I am considering allowing right now are those taken from Eberron setting books. The reason is because I think a lot of those options help infuse the flavor of Eberron. Aside from that, keep it simple and stick to the books I listed in the OP.

 

[airwalkrr]

[MENTION=51567]Lou[/MENTION], I think the feats are fine. Right of Counsel is something you might want to give a second thought to as it isn't something you will get a lot of use out of without the ability to teleport.

I don't want to mess with the paragon classes any more than I have to in order to make your character playable. Nor do I like the idea of changing racial traits. Pick either elf or half-elf and let the differences manifest themselves through role-playing. You could pick elf but role-play your character as having a bit of human blood or pick half-elf but choose to emphasize the elf qualities over the human qualities. As for the paragon levels, you can pick one or the other, but I don't think there is much of a need to change them. At most, I will allow you to change elf paragon caster levels to cleric or trade the half-elf paragon bonus feat for a cleric caster level.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I am feeling the Mror Stalwart

 

[Yttermayn]

I am feeling the Mror Stalwart

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[airwalkrr]

Are you using fractional BAB and saves?

Sorry, I missed this. No, I am not using fractional BAB/saves.

 

[Scott DeWar]

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Sorry Ytterman, forgot that your mind is warped. Mror Stalwart feat gives a +1 feat bonus to attack with axes and hammers when the attack is made before a move.

 

[airwalkrr]

Added background information for Duran Thorn.

I only have one comment. How did Duran have an affair with a member of another house and yet never notice her Dragonmark? And did she ever notice his? I am just trying to imagine the mechanics of it. Unless their "affair" was always conducted with their clothes on. I am sure you get what I am trying to say...