I'm going to use the Empyrean Gods from the Auran Empire setting. These will represent the gods of the Hadrian Empire in this game.
In case you don't have the Auran Empire Primer, the list of gods can be found here.
I think your god of "mysteries, magic, and wisdom" would be best represented by Istreus.
Quick request for casters, can you bold the spells that are in your repertoire, and leave the others in your spellbook normal? I prefer that over the opposite. Thank you.
That seems reasonable.
How does Lay on Hands interact with Mortal Wounds? It should get a bonus based on the spell level, since it's magic healing, but it doesn't have a spell level, so...
Laying on Hands is indeed healing magic, as it is referred to as such on p 105.
I would say that it counts as a level 1 spell if used by a character of 5th or lower level. If used by a character of 6th or higher level, it counts as a level 4 spell.
6th level, coincidentally, is when clerics gain access to 4th level spells such as Cure Serious Wounds.
Apologies for my silence. I've been away on a business trip and came back to having to manage some emergency medical things with a parent. Things are fine, but I'm very tied up in familial duties and trying to get caught up at work.
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I've taken the liberty of starting on maps for these territories
Any tips for using the 'View X New' link on the forums? There were somethign like 14+ new posts in Character Building Discussion, but I responded to the first one I read and notification on all the rest went away. I think I read the large majority of new stuff, but it's wholly possible I missed a thing or two.
Anything more you want to say about Northfort, the Shining Spire, or Avauntar, Sully?
All, should we be 'from' one place, or just be from what sounds interesting to us, individually? Is there any reason, Sully, for us to diversify our backgrounds amongst those three frontier towns, so we have contacts in each within the party?
Is it possible to delete this post? http://autarch.co/comment/25879#comment-25879
It's an annoyance to the order of our Character Sheet thread.
Nope! You just have to hope nobody ever posts on different pages, or reread the whole thread.
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I see the objection to nested replies now.
Assume this is part of the rumor-gathering sessions you've been pretending to do while drinking your faces off in Ket.
The Northfort is there to protect Ket's mining interests. The terrain becomes very hilly and then mountainous to the north just past the Northfort. No one seems to have a good idea of what the mines need to be protected from... Rumor has it the Northfort's lancers are well versed in the art of dragonslaying. And technically speaking, none of the mines are within Ket's borders.
Avauntar borders the southern badlands. Past the Badlands, you get to a lot of swampy, marshy land. Past that, there's supposedly a thriving pirate city. The Empire doesn't have the ships in these parts to do much about the piracy, and the swamps and marshs protect the pirates from being attacked by land. They say you can buy anything from the pirates, if you've got the coin.
The Shining Spire is pretty boring. Lawbreakers don't just get a month of hard labor, they get transformed into a horse and literally plow a field for a month. That being said, adventurers are welcome because there are a lot of mages doing a lot of spell research who are willing to pay top coin if you're the type who can procure rare items.
Sorry to hear about the medical issues, Atlic. Hope things are better.
Your PCs and henches can be from anywhere in the Empire. Doesn't have to be Ket or the border towns.
You're all new to the Eastern wilderness though.
I think the voting in the General Discussion thread about getting rid of nested replies was favoring the chronological format. But I agree that it's making it hard to keep up with replies across the map.
So how about we voluntarily stop replying to comments and just add new ones at the bottom of the thread? If you want to reference an earlier post, hit quote, copy the quote, and paste it into a new comment. That was suggested before and I dismissed it as too much work but let's try it as a temporary solution and hopefully Keown will deliver on the permanent solution soon.
As regards the maps, Ket is a week's ride from each of the three border towns, which are all more or less equidistant from the capital. This is on well maintained roads, however.
There are dirt roads, well patrolled, between each of the border towns. East of the border? You'd have to talk to the locals to see if there are any rangers, foresters, miners, explorers, etc.. who can guide you. Assuming you know what you want to be guided to.
The nesting comments absolutely sucks.
I vote we use the Northfort as our base. Clearing an abandoned mine or two would be a great source of early domains, and selling metal to Ket gives us easy positive relations early on.
The Shining Spire is full of establishment sellouts that Alistar will want to pick fights with.
Avauntar is apparently boring and noteworthy only for being adjacent to the worst terrain ever.
Northfort & mines sounds good but the swamp pirates near Avauntar could be interesting as well.
I definitely agree that we should do something with the pirates on the far side of the swamp, but I don't think we should build our starting base near them. Swamps are way too obnoxious to deal with before you have momentum; they've got the nastiest roaming monsters AND the slowest movement speed AND the highest encounter rate.
"Any time the explorer/venturer's party is in country familiar to the explorer, they get a +4 bonus..."
What does familiar country mean? Is it like 3.5 ranger's favored enemy where I should pick a terrain type or two, and mark this explorer as a Tundra Explorer, or is it region by region like "Okay, you've been through Blacktree Fireswamp twice, so your venturer can mark it as familiar terrain"
Also I just want to confirm that you ARE using the Advanced rule for hiring mercs, which is that they cost six times as much to represent back pay. Otherwise I'll hire six times as many horsemen.