Warriors Of The Coast OOC

[DEFCON 1]

By the way, is this the same group that has two prestige classes in... err... one of the supplements? That's my only knowledge of them. I'm guessing they're like FR's Harpers?

Yup... the Daggerspell Guardians are from the Complete Adventurer. Two prestige classes... Daggerspell Mages (which are arcane caster rogue/scouts) and Daggerspell Shapers (which are druidic rogue/scouts).

As far as being like Harpers... well pretty much every good-aligned organization that's been created with a prestige class looks like the Harpers ... so I dunno if the analogy completely fits. But if you have Complete Adventurer and can read up on the organization included in the book, that'll tell you how I'm playing them in the game.

 

[Brogarn]

Ok, I didn't get much of a chance to think about this over the weekend, but I'll go over the Complete Adventurer tonite and decide how I want Skarg to react. Sorry for the delay. This seems a fairly important encounter for Skarg and I want to make sure I play it out right for him.

 

[stonegod]

Ari's fine relaxing. He's got a job, so he's content.

 

[drothgery]

Any questions about how we are doing this, please ask them over in the OOC thread.

A couple
1 - Can I use action points for making these checks (though obviously you can't use an AP and take 20 at the same time)?
2 - Khalia has the Research feat from the ECS; since my books are at home, I don't remember exactly what the feat does. Does that have any impact on what she's doing here?

 

[Brogarn]

Hey, DEFCON1, you weren't trying to hint at me not going to the encampment, were you? I was following your philosophical hints as opposed to what I just realized may have been your "the party's split up and it's getting inconvenient" hints. Let me know if I missed something.

 

[DEFCON 1]

1 - Can I use action points for making these checks (though obviously you can't use an AP and take 20 at the same time)?

Yes, you can. After you set your own TN and I then reveal what number you rolled, you can then decide if you want to spend an AP or not in hopes of increasing your roll. Obviously you'll need to determine for yourself whether the odds are favorable to you to spend it (depending how far away you missed the TN by).

2 - Khalia has the Research feat from the ECS; since my books are at home, I don't remember exactly what the feat does. Does that have any impact on what she's doing here?

It's because she has the Research feat that I'm actually doing all of this. Ordinarily your character could have done some checking up on stuff and I might've given a few hints and things after a simple skill check... but it's because you took both the Research and Investigator feats that I'm actually turning this whole thing into a pseudo-combat encounter for you (for which you'll be duly rewarded much more than an ordinary character might have).

I figured that you went to the effort to create a research-primary character, so the least I could do was make it fun and interesting (and hopefully ultimately rewarding) for you to have done that. The problem with the D&D rules in general is that most of their mechanics are only geared around combat... so non-combat related activities need to be fleshed out a bit more to make them interesting. Hopefully, this event will allow you a bit of strategic thinking and will focus on your primary character attributes. Believe me... I wouldn't be doing this if your character wasn't built to specialize in this sort of thing.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Hey, DEFCON1, you weren't trying to hint at me not going to the encampment, were you? I was following your philosophical hints as opposed to what I just realized may have been your "the party's split up and it's getting inconvenient" hints. Let me know if I missed something.

Not at all. I've been hoping you ultimately would be deciding to go to the encampment, if for no other reason that it's been the plotline you've been following this entire time since we got back from the underground temple. It was only because of the very short amount of time you spent at the Guardians headquarters (and not asking very many questions or gaining further info) and then your post of "why am I doing this"? that I've been following this up with these philosophical posts as well.

As I mentioned at the very beginning when we all decided to continue the game, that everything and anything was open to all of you. If you wanted to do nothing but visit casinos for several weeks straight, I would have been happy to roleplay that out with you. If you wanted to go on a shopping spree and start buying everything you could find, again I would have followed you. Take a trip to Sharn... join a guild... track down a serial killer... anything.

But if you guys didn't actually say anything about what you wanted to do or where you wanted to go... all I could do was drop a couple encounter ideas here and there and see which ones you picked up on. You were free to select which ones you wanted to follow and which ones you didn't, or even ignore all these plot ideas and do something completely different that you created on your own. Khalia could have taken Tod Ellston up on his advances... and drothgery and I would be RPing a romantic encounter right now if that's the way drothgery had wanted to go with his character. And Ari joining the Silver Flame crusade just happened because stonegod decided to follow the hobgoblin to the Deneith guildhouse, and then took the job from the Flame. He could have just as easily taken the plothook I laid out about the tournament that was occuring in a few days if he had wanted... checking up to see how he could have entered if he so chose.

And it's the same way with Skarg. Whereever you took and will take him... I'll follow you gladly. You just need to decide where you want to go. And don't worry about "deviating from the course"... I have several tricks up my sleeve to get the party back together when I think it's time. Even with Jango several hundred miles away doing his own plot right now... the recombining of the group will happen when it needs to.

 

[DEFCON 1]

One other thing for all of you...

It's possibly obvious by now, but just in case you missed it... I reward you all for following your character's wants, needs and plots. The more you make decisions to drive your characters forward... the more I'll reward you for it. This is why Jango received a free feat recently... Ari has been getting additional gold hand over fist... Khalia has the potential of gaining a bunch more Action Points coming up... and Skarghash has a prestige class available possibly in his future if that's the way he wants to go (and I'll give it as an option when he's ready, regardless of any "class requirements" he otherwise might've needed).

Rules are made to be bent... so I'll hand stuff out when you've earned it for strong play, even if it isn't "by the rules". You know your characters. You roleplay them well, you'll get rewarded (besides the obvious XP).

 

[stonegod]

Ari *deserved* that gold though, for his dashing good looks if not his superb work ethic!

 

[DEFCON 1]

Ari *deserved* that gold though, for his dashing good looks if not his superb work ethic!

If you really believe Ari should have been earning gold for his good looks, you would have given him a few levels in Bard and taken the skill of Profession: Gigalo.