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Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest

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Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Sep 28, 2021 at 1:11 PM, finished with 12 posts and 7 votes.
  • [X] Continue Training with Tom (3/10 Progress to retraining him)
    [X] Try to study written Anwari (1/5 to Becoming literate)
    -[X] With Inge and Zaia
    [X] Train against Inge to better learn how to use your new shield (May take feats about countering spell-casters at next level up)
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Goldfish said:
This is one of those options that will be useful a long while from now but won't help us at all in the short or mid-term. There are too many foundational feats that Roland needs before we start specializing and branching into things like anti-magic feats.
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Don't forget the Elephant in the room.
That really does reduce the number of "necessary" feats for most builds.
 
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Arc 3 Post 29: Reaching Far
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    First Day of Olweje-eza (Olweje Ascending) 1348 A. L. (After Landfall)

    It is a relief to feel the familiar weight of your sword in your hand even if it had not quite returned as it had been from Inge's hands. There is a faint sheen to the metal ghostly blue by light of sun and eerie green by light of moon. Thankfully it does not seem to have been weakened by her ministration, though the girl makes no bones about her work. "Ikomi is no smith and not for her the forge's flame, once she mended this true, twice maybe too, the third time..." she shrugs looking uncertain and young all at once, and it occurs to you that for all she knows so much of this world that is strange she is yet a child and with a child's eyes she sees you.

    "That you can play the smith at all if more than I had any right to hope for," you assure her kindly.

    "Thank you, I... prayed for it special since I knew how much the weapons and armor were worth here where there are none to forge them." Her manner changes from one moment to the next from chagrin to cheerful smile, then to something a little quieter. "Do you miss it, you home, your people?"

    Part of you wishes to give another reassuring answer, but you cannot be sure how how well that will float by those too-wise eyes, so instead you settle on the truth in the best light you can show it, for indeed the light of summer warms your bones. "Every day, but the future is ahead and not behind and in this world not another and so to that I shall bend all of my strength and all my thoughts."

    The looks she gives you is searching still. "The world is very big, you should not try to lift it all at once."

    The whole day through you practice the sword with Tom at times alone, at times taking advantage of the tireless skill of the Stout Folk, or as you have found they call themselves the Knikut.

    Behind their strength of arms and a stomach that can almost match Antonio, you encounter a welcoming people, honorable in that they hold no grudges over being taken along on your journey to Lirman given the urgency of it.. and with a wickedly sharp sense of humor. That is how you find one evening that their word for men like yourself and the Anwa has nothing to do with height nor any other physical characteristic. Isuk can mean 'tiller of the soil' when one is being polite, but the more basic translation would be 'shit sitter' in reference to the reek of cities and towns the world over. Considering the general fragrance of most of the settlements you have set foot in besides forest and plain one cannot say in good conscience that you do not see... or perhaps smell their point.

    Pungent linguistics aside you can certainly see how the chance to spar with more opponents than you, opponents who are for the most part more hardy and strong then he is help Tom start to work out new ways of dealing with them, ways that do not involve the tried and tested tactics of getting more men on the task

    Tom Retraining 3/10

    As you lay down your head to sleep each night though no matter how weary your limbs your mind keeps turning, back to the princess and her troubles, back to monster that had given you a title you still know so little of and most of all back to Inge's words. The world is large indeed and strange and perilous besides. what do you hope to earn of the future.

    Besides your bed the rune-carved shield glints in the sparse moonlight.

    [] Glory, you will be remembered for your own deeds not some strange chance of your passage and you will bring to this world something akin to the songs you learned in your youth

    [] A home to call your own, you will work to gain lordship in this land or another, to have a place where you might light a hearth and in the fullness of time if the fortunes of war are kind lay your bones

    [] Good works, you will be true to yourself and to your vows and however long or short your life may be you shall leave the world a better place than you have found it

    [] Discovery, this world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can, always learning all you can from voices near and far

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    OOC: The above are just suggestions, feel free to be as creative and as detailed as you wish with this. While it will not be set in stone this is going to be the foundation of what Roland is currently aspiring to beyond just protecting his men, that is duty, this is desire. not yet edited.
     
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    • Artemis1992 said:
    Don't forget the Elephant in the room.
    That really does reduce the number of "necessary" feats for most builds.
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    Yeah, but he still needs Weapon Focus, that one mounted combat feat whose name currently escapes me, Toughness, etc. We'll won't run out of basic feats we want for him before he reaches 6th level and we have to start buying them with XP.
     
    [X] A home to call your own, you will work to gain lordship in this land or another, to have a place where you might light a hearth and in the fullness of time if the fortunes of war are kind lay your bones

    [X] Discovery, this world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can, always learning all you can from voices near and far

    I already mentioned both motivations a some time ago
     
    [X] Good works, you will be true to yourself and to your vows and however long or short your life may be you shall leave the world a better place than you have found it

    [X] Discovery, this world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can, always learning all you can from voices near and far
     
    [X] Exploration
    -[X] This world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with, but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can. Before you can earn glory, work to make the world a better place, or settle down and make a home for yourself, you must first find your place in it.
     
    [X] Good works, you will be true to yourself and to your vows and however long or short your life may be you shall leave the world a better place than you have found it
     
    [X] Good works, you will be true to yourself and to your vows and however long or short your life may be you shall leave the world a better place than you have found it
    [X] Exploration
    -[X] This world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with, but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can. Before you can earn glory, work to make the world a better place, or settle down and make a home for yourself, you must first find your place in it.
     
    [X] Discovery, this world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can, always learning all you can from voices near and far
     
    [X] Discovery, this world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can, always learning all you can from voices near and far

    Although "good works" is good too.
     
    [X] Good works, you will be true to yourself and to your vows and however long or short your life may be you shall leave the world a better place than you have found it

    Not gonna lie, I'm a sucker for the honorable Knight stereotype. Really would be nice to see Roland be the moral center compared to Zaia's amoral science shenanigans and Antonio's amoral merchant smuggler shtick.
     
    [X] Good works, you will be true to yourself and to your vows and however long or short your life may be you shall leave the world a better place than you have found it
     
    I have trouble seeing Roland, at this point in time at least, looking forward to doing 'good works'. Yes, he may want to help people, but it shouldn't be his overriding goal right now, not when he still knows so little of the world and feels so much responsibility to his men and the crew of the Marcella, including Inge.

    Learning more of the world, the forces that influence it, the polities which govern it, and the phenomenon that brought us here, all of those should come before 'good works'.
     
    [X] Discovery, this world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can, always learning all you can from voices near and far
     
    Goldfish said:
    I have trouble seeing Roland, at this point in time at least, looking forward to doing 'good works'. Yes, he may want to help people, but it shouldn't be his overriding goal right now, not when he still knows so little of the world and feels so much responsibility to his men and the crew of the Marcella, including Inge.

    Learning more of the world, the forces that influence it, the polities which govern it, and the phenomenon that brought us here, all of those should come before 'good works'.
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    I feel like it would be just as valid of a motivation as exploration would, personally.

    The only one which really stands out as weird to me is the desire for Lordship, as I'm pretty sure Roland was never a landed noble even back in his time.
    Glory can come from wanting to make his mark on the world, which is something even the good hearted Roland desires. Otherwise he would have never went to the Crusades in the first place.
    Discovery can come from trying to find out why he came to be in this time period, and if there's anything he can do about it. It can be tied to his duty he feels towards his men and companions.
    Good Deeds can come from his desire to fight for a good cause after the disasters of the Crusade; fighting to actually accomplish something good in the world only to be stifled before could mean that he wants it even more strongly. It would also fit in with his duty towards the charges he has picked up, like Igne.
     
    Raichu1972 said:
    I feel like it would be just as valid of a motivation as exploration would, personally.

    The only one which really stands out as weird to me is the desire for Lordship, as I'm pretty sure Roland was never a landed noble even back in his time.
    Glory can come from wanting to make his mark on the world, which is something even the good hearted Roland desires. Otherwise he would have never went to the Crusades in the first place.
    Discovery can come from trying to find out why he came to be in this time period, and if there's anything he can do about it. It can be tied to his duty he feels towards his men and companions.
    Good Deeds can come from his desire to fight for a good cause after the disasters of the Crusade; fighting to actually accomplish something good in the world only to be stifled before could mean that he wants it even more strongly. It would also fit in with his duty towards the charges he has picked up, like Igne.
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    He was landed and his father before him, not a lot of land mind he was on the very lowest end of landed nobility hence returning with only a score of men at arms from the Crusade.
     
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    OK, finally found the time to write, sorry about that. RL ambushed me
    Adhoc vote count started by DragonParadox on Sep 29, 2021 at 10:09 AM, finished with 21 posts and 15 votes.
    • [X] Exploration
      -[X] This world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with, but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can. Before you can earn glory, work to make the world a better place, or settle down and make a home for yourself, you must first find your place in it.
      [X] Discovery, this world may be wrought upon the same as the one you are familiar with but it is wrapped in strange garb and you would see as much of it as you can, always learning all you can from voices near and far
      [X] Good works, you will be true to yourself and to your vows and however long or short your life may be you shall leave the world a better place than you have found it
      [X] A home to call your own, you will work to gain lordship in this land or another, to have a place where you might light a hearth and in the fullness of time if the fortunes of war are kind lay your bones
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