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Trace_Coburn
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
137 Posts |
 Posted - 12 Apr 2006 : 14:58:59
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Out of curiosity, are there many people who run their PCs' adventuring groups as being 'sponsored'? I don't mean just doing odd jobs for this or that patron on an ad hoc basis; I'm thinking more of groups which take a healthy proportion of their adventures/assignments (and not a little guidance as to methods) from a single benefactor or small roster of benefactors. Also, while such groups tend to take the typical amounts of cash and gear as prizes of war from their vanquished foes, their main source of magical equipment, training, information, shelter and succor etc. generally tends to be their benefactor(s) - putting them in something of a grey area between outright servants of their benefactor(s) and semi-freelance roving troubleshooters.
What manner of benefactors have people used/do people use? The Harpers are gimmes for a good campaign, but how many people use small communities or friendly, low-level local churches rather than feudal lords or Bishop/Cardinal-equivalents holding sway over the clergy of entire cities/regions/countries?
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D&D collection: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual I, Complete Arcane, Arms & Equipment Guide.
FR sourcebook collection: Dragons of Faerūn, Faiths & Pantheons, FRCS, Lords of Darkness, Monsters of Faerūn, Player's Guide to Faerūn, Power of Faerūn, Races of Faerūn, Silver Marches.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 12 Apr 2006 : 16:36:36
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My Merc company email game has sponsers, but most of the PC's don't know who all of the sponsers are. :) Grins.
I can't get into details about this to much, since the game is still going but, we can discuss it privately, if needed. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
2104 Posts |
Posted - 12 Apr 2006 : 16:51:39
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Oh I'm sure we won't look into this thread. *whistles innocently*  |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 12 Apr 2006 : 16:56:08
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Originally posted by Kajehase
Oh I'm sure we won't look into this thread. *whistles innocently*
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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Fletcher
Learned Scribe
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 12 Apr 2006 : 19:28:15
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The campaign I am running, the players are 'sponsored' by the Church of Oghma. They have formed a militaristic branch of the church, and are often used to protect various scribes as they delve into ancient ruins, and dangerous locations.
They also have taken the fight to Cyric on occasion. |
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Halidan
Senior Scribe
USA
470 Posts |
Posted - 12 Apr 2006 : 20:55:09
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In a campaign that I finished running about a year ago, the players were all members of Randal Morn's Freedom Riders - a band of rebels fighting the Zhentarim who were occupying Daggerdale. All of the adventures were either assignments from Randal (or one of his captains) or events that happened to the group while they were "on patrol" in the countryside.
It was a fun campaign. I had always wanted to run a "Robin Hood" style campaign and this was as close a match as I could come up with in the Realms. |
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Sian
Senior Scribe
Denmark
596 Posts |
Posted - 12 Apr 2006 : 22:53:08
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| well ... a campaign that i more or less have planed out do have a sponsor though the first couple of levels ... a Halaruaan Magehound invistigating what turns out to be a double-crossing allience between the LE king and Thay |
what happened to the queen? she's much more hysterical than usual
She's a women, it happens once a month |
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