Re: Re: Jumping off Cliffs

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:30:37 -0700

> That is something that has come up in our Far Point campaign. One of the
> characters is a devotee of Varanorlanth and would rather like to get some
> feats from Tatouth and a few of the other Orlanth Adventurous Subcults.
> According to the rules, he can just pay the HP cost and buy the feat,
> hunky-dory. However, that seems a bit cheap to me. Should it be that easy
to
> get feats from other subcults? If so, why? If not, what is the solution?
> Nobody else in our campaign likes multiple cult membership and he doesn't
> want to join Tatouth etc as they are not really at home in the wilds.

Well, you can make it as difficult as you like, of course. Personally, as long as they are paying HP to cement those feats, they should be able to get them (as long as the feats are in the appropriate affinities, of course - no "borrowing" from the Scouting affinity when you don't have the scouting affinity, frex). You might want to have them befriend someone who will "teach" them the feat, or befriend the cult (he *can't* join the cult, because Devotees cannot join other cults any more). Or make him pay double, for lack of a better alternative.

> > They can "use it to improvise the named feats" (of his/her god). I'm
> > just taking the concept of "god" very broadly when I say an initiate
> > of any O. Adv. subcult can improvise any O. Adv. feat from any O.
> > Adv. subcult, so that a Niskis initiate can improvise "Fall Softly" -
> > which is a "named feat" in the Tatouth subcult.
>
> Hmmm.

Err, what kind of "hmm" is that?

> Yes, but the idea is to allow the Reaching Storm, or whatever it is, to
help
> those good Orlanthi who cannot actually use Wind/Movement affinities. If I
> was an initiate of Orlanth Allfather, say Orlanthcarl, and I defended the
> walls of Whitewall in the seige and there was a dirty great storm overhead
> helping the defenders fly against the attackers, then I would be very
> aggrieved to find that it wouldn't help all pious and devout Orlanthi. The
> use of the Devotee of Orlanthcarl ability should be enough to tap into the
> storm and fly down.

We won't ask why a farmer is defending the walls without having joined some sort of fighting cult...

Personally, the Storm wouldn't lead me to allow Allfather worshippers to do none-Allfather things (making, leading, law, etc). On the other hand, it would certainly make an Allfather leader better at leading (opr a farmer better at farming, etc.). If you want it to give none-windy types wind/flight powers, then say that that's what it does. It would be a Blessing sort of magic (as if the Storm were a big, huge, Guardian/Wyter for the "Whitewall defenders".).

RR
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