This'll seem bad but i've never actually had an explanation for what the house of fiends are. I was kind of out of commission for a few days and only resurfaced after Landaus and Dread had already completed their characters. More or less. The reasonings for our character's assembly is quite solid and clear by now but I'm at a loss for background info. Though I suppose it may be more fitting if Evyrless was kept in the dark about matters other than what directly concerns her. Or more accurately, the matters that concern her deity.
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1) Sure, make it a giant ass war. Evyrless wouldn't really care if she's fighting someone else's war, it gives her more xp-- I mean, it gives her more chances to hone her skills.
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2) I have little knowledge of the feywild (which i should fix, since I'm playing a damned Wood Elf) so I can't really give much input on this. But I think it's a fine idea to use this to anchor Loren into the party.
3) same as above
4) gosh I'm so useful
5) Please make this the Raven Queen, that would make me so happy. Evyrless would be a sort of foreign emissary, which would be awesome, especially since the death clerics in Ainford would work very differently from any local sorts. (over there it's a combination of overbearing/authoritarian Catholicism and death cult) She'd be very interested in seeing how the locals serve their queen because she doesn't like how her people do it.
6) They're a ragtag group of misfits like every proper D&D group, what would you expect?
ALSO, ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL QUESTION:
15) "I don't care about most of them." I'd imagine she'd know both the nobles' names because they'd be the most likely to throw them around when first meeting people. The only one here she knows is Harriet, and everyone here has a small lifespan compared to Elves, so she's likely not to care about anyone else present for a while. To be frank, she's kind of using the group as both a means to get close to Harriet again and to make herself more capable. For now, at least.
Unrelated side-note: I just had the thought that since the Raven Queen, as a mortal, was a sorcerer-queen, a future build I might use for Evyrless should be a Sorceress Drow with divine bloodline (whatever it's called, I think it's in UA and gives Cleric stuffs) that follows after the Raven Queen. Could actually change her build to that now and keep her whole story still >.>
A weird thought but I'll keep it around since I plan on using Evyrless as a recurring character in my rps. Technically you're seeing a really early version of her right now and I'm still trying to develop who she is and why she does stuff.
>.>
<.<
2) I have little knowledge of the feywild (which i should fix, since I'm playing a damned Wood Elf) so I can't really give much input on this. But I think it's a fine idea to use this to anchor Loren into the party.
3) same as above
4) gosh I'm so useful
5) Please make this the Raven Queen, that would make me so happy. Evyrless would be a sort of foreign emissary, which would be awesome, especially since the death clerics in Ainford would work very differently from any local sorts. (over there it's a combination of overbearing/authoritarian Catholicism and death cult) She'd be very interested in seeing how the locals serve their queen because she doesn't like how her people do it.
6) They're a ragtag group of misfits like every proper D&D group, what would you expect?
ALSO, ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL QUESTION:
15) "I don't care about most of them." I'd imagine she'd know both the nobles' names because they'd be the most likely to throw them around when first meeting people. The only one here she knows is Harriet, and everyone here has a small lifespan compared to Elves, so she's likely not to care about anyone else present for a while. To be frank, she's kind of using the group as both a means to get close to Harriet again and to make herself more capable. For now, at least.
Unrelated side-note: I just had the thought that since the Raven Queen, as a mortal, was a sorcerer-queen, a future build I might use for Evyrless should be a Sorceress Drow with divine bloodline (whatever it's called, I think it's in UA and gives Cleric stuffs) that follows after the Raven Queen. Could actually change her build to that now and keep her whole story still >.>
A weird thought but I'll keep it around since I plan on using Evyrless as a recurring character in my rps. Technically you're seeing a really early version of her right now and I'm still trying to develop who she is and why she does stuff.
*unenthustiastic wooing*
@The Harbinger of Ferocity I don't really see why it would need a port of the full comprehensive list of changes you made to 3.5e. I'm not sure what you did with lore but as far as mechanics all you really need is to make the hp and spell slot regeneration systems less forgiving and throw nastier bads at people to make a campaign feel grittier. In my experience, 80% of the grit for any system is setting and tone.
Look at Eclipse Phase, a sci-fi tabletop that's basically made to play off cosmic/eldritch horror. In that game you can have your physical body die as much as you want and it doesn't matter, what matters is the psychological state your mind is left in after all the shit you've just been through.
For reference, Eclipse Phase is in a far-future scenario where humankind has transcended the need for their natural bodies because they managed to digitize their minds and implant them in manufactured bodies. Mechanical, biological, biomechanical, alien, whatever. So if you die, you can just have your mind be recovered and downloaded into another fleshy sleeve and keep going. The point of this is to show that the new list of dangers taken form by the advancement of technology is far more terrifying than something as mundane as death. Put that alongside the fact that resources in the game are far from plentiful because the solar system is on the brink of collapse. You have to be careful about what you get because everything is a finite resource.
I might have gotten a little carried away and I don't plan on making this thread into a different tabletop discussion. The point is that you don't need to change every little mechanic to make things gritty and have the world brutally indifferent to the players' existence. All you need is to put them in the right situation where everything is not plentiful and even if you get out of the situation physically unscathed you're still far from fine.
Or maybe I'm being dumb. Maybe I just wanna play EP now. Whatever. I'm going to focus on this RP now and if you make your own campaign then do what you want with it, I won't bitch at you. Promise. I'll probably still try and join up regardless of what you do with it.
Look at Eclipse Phase, a sci-fi tabletop that's basically made to play off cosmic/eldritch horror. In that game you can have your physical body die as much as you want and it doesn't matter, what matters is the psychological state your mind is left in after all the shit you've just been through.
For reference, Eclipse Phase is in a far-future scenario where humankind has transcended the need for their natural bodies because they managed to digitize their minds and implant them in manufactured bodies. Mechanical, biological, biomechanical, alien, whatever. So if you die, you can just have your mind be recovered and downloaded into another fleshy sleeve and keep going. The point of this is to show that the new list of dangers taken form by the advancement of technology is far more terrifying than something as mundane as death. Put that alongside the fact that resources in the game are far from plentiful because the solar system is on the brink of collapse. You have to be careful about what you get because everything is a finite resource.
I might have gotten a little carried away and I don't plan on making this thread into a different tabletop discussion. The point is that you don't need to change every little mechanic to make things gritty and have the world brutally indifferent to the players' existence. All you need is to put them in the right situation where everything is not plentiful and even if you get out of the situation physically unscathed you're still far from fine.
Or maybe I'm being dumb. Maybe I just wanna play EP now. Whatever. I'm going to focus on this RP now and if you make your own campaign then do what you want with it, I won't bitch at you. Promise. I'll probably still try and join up regardless of what you do with it.
@The Harbinger of Ferocity I agree with Big Dread on this. 5e is my baby but I can understand someone else's preference to something else and I'd be very willing to jump in on something like that. I don't mind the low magic thing (as long as I can be party utility because I despise playing PCs that can do nothing but combat >-<) and as far as dark and gritty, that's probably something that you all would expect to be sorta my thing. I'm a big geek when it comes to Soulsborne stuff and, while Dark Souls might not be very low fantasy, I think that fits in quite accurately with the 'savage fantasy' idea. So you have my endorsement, but I wouldn't want to take the place of someone else because the party gets too packed ^-^;
@JBRam2002 If Lightning is in it then no ^-^
@JBRam2002 Fair enough sir. Good luck with the final fantasy rp. (If it were a 14 rp I'd be jumping on that so fast. Evyrless had her debut in that game's RP scene)
@Ermine I would second this but i feel it would just end in another of this campaign so ill abstain.
Are either @The Harbinger of Ferocity or @JBRam2002 free enough to make a second campaign? They both seem plenty knowledgeable as potential GMs. I don't mean to call you out or something like that, I just think either of you would be appropriate for the job if either of you happen to have the free time.
@The Harbinger of Ferocity No, you'll have a conversation with her personally eventually ^-^
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