What Should a Large City's party Have?

[Haggar the Horrible]

Hello,

I'm one of the PCs in DerianCypher's city here and I was wondering what we should watch out for in terms of unexpected circumstances.

I will be playing a Rogue/Fighter and another PC will play a Wizard.....that's it. We will probably have one NPC with us, but what I'm wondering is:

Should we hire out for a meat-shield? Should we enquire about clerics, or pay/bribe the local temples for heals? Should I as the rogue in the group scout ahead, or stay in tight for artillary back-up from the mage?

In short, what will it take to ensure our party survives?

 

[Haggar the Horrible]

So nobody cares about my Rogue?!?!?

I'm hurt.






Oh, and BUMP!

 

[Nightfall]

If your PC doesn't want to worry about getting into a major scrap, then yeah, hire out the best muscle you can find for the job. Bribing clerics (at least the good ones) is probably NOT a good idea. Maybe you could convince one to join IF you promise to fuliful a quest for the church, say like fit up a shrine, help in the construction of new temple/church, or some religious quest. Don't worry about hiring out rogues, IF You plan on doing that part of the leg work. But what ever you do, not piss off the authorities.

 

[SkeletonKey Ed]

Backdrops from Atlas Games has some cool stuff to drop into an urban setting. Check it out on the EN World store.
http://www.enworld.rpgshop.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=17&products_id=15618&

I got this last week and it is quite cool. I will be using it in my campaign soon.

Ed

 

[Kichwas]

If the campaign is to be an urban one you want a lot of social skills.

Build your characters as if they were in one of these molds:

Gangsters, mafia men, cops, PIs, or spies.

Think about what those kinds of people need to survive. Because your PCs will likely need similar.

Survival in a city game is more often a matter of who and what you know than it is of what you can do.

Hired thugs will not be so useful as a good gumshoe. In fact walking about like an armed camp can get you into more trouble than walking around 'defenseless'.