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Hey all. About to start our new RotRL campaign in a few days, and while planning ahead I ran into a conundrum.
My party consists of:
-female human Rogue
-female halfling Cleric of Erastil
-male human Fighter
-male dwarf Sorcerer
The fighter has a CHA of 11, and the dwarf sorcerer has a CHA of 15. My question is which one would Shayliss go after? The text says she goes for any male PC who thinks he's quite the ladies man, which is more the dwarf's personality.
So would she try to jump the reasonably handsome human fighter? Or cross the race line and go after the handsome dwarf?
-male human Fighter
-male dwarf SorcererThe fighter has a CHA of 11, and the dwarf sorcerer has a CHA of 15. My question is which one would Shayliss go after? The text says she goes for any male PC who thinks he's quite the ladies man, which is more the dwarf's personality.
So would she try to jump the reasonably handsome human fighter? Or cross the race line and go after the handsome dwarf?
I'd say see how the players play it up until that point and go for the more 'ladies man' of the two.. If its the dwarf then you can have lots of extra fun
What I did was have her blessed with one of the players children and while she is warming that bun a certain someone in book five kidnaps her and begins a monstrous ceremony on her. They are now worried about the mother and future baby since Shayliss now has scars covering her stomach and is pretty freaked out.
Debbie Does Sandpoint.
haha. Nice.
I think I'll take the advice to see how the party handles it, and I have some great options now.
You may need some additional source material for that ...
Unfortunately, my group does not have many points in charisma, with only one hero even above a 9 (he has a 12). The player controlling him is usually not very interesting in those types of situations or role-playing, so I chose to skip the whole affair altogether. I think it only works for some groups.
For the same reason, it was a bit hard figuring out how to handle Aldern Foxglove. Only two PC's were directly responsible for "saving" him, the others were occupied down the street with Pyros. Of the two that saved Foxglove, one was the 12 charisma male sorcerer, the other was a 9 charisma dwarf fighter. I decided to focus on the dwarf mostly because that particular player really soaks in the role-playing opportunities more and will make this much more interesting. Foxglove seems enthralled with his fighting prowess and knowledge of engineering.
They turned down the boar hunt, sadly, since there were more "pressing" matters to deal with following the attack. I couldn't argue.
In my Beta playtest RotR game, Shayliss' choice was restricted to two players (the AP is being played with a 50/50 male/female player/character split - and neither of the women are interested in that kind of subplot), the high CHA sorcerer or the medium CHA rogue. Ultimately, I went with the sorcerer because that player rolls with things better, and because his character was already in a relationship that he didn't want to lose (I allowed him to take the feat from Book of Exalted Deeds where you're in a relationship with a fey creature starting out when he asked about it; he's the current lover of the fey from Hook Mountain Massacre).
As expected, he turned down her advances, and made the Diplomacy rolls to avoid the worst of the problems - so then I hit him with some more issues: 1) Shayliss was also a sorcerer (albeit untrained) of the fey-blooded type, and his relationship with the fey triggered her powers' appearance; 2) she is not the shopkeeper's actual daughter, but the child of 'some woodsy guy that Mom took up with when Dad was out to sea' (said woodsy guy being the son of the fey that the sorcerer is involved with, and an important figure in Hook Mountain); 3) her fey blood is running wild as her powers awaken, I've had her start acting more like a fey (human social conventions - don't need 'em; conversational boundaries - likewise; wild emotional swings without notice; etc); 4) also because her powers are awakening, she's unconsciously manifested Charm Person twice and zotted the party fighter and the sorcerer, asking them to help her 'get the people that were responsible for her sister's death. Then I had her walk in on one of the Varisian highwaymen guys stealing stuff from the female fighter's room for Foxglove (Shayliss got the wrong room when she was going to ambush the sorcerer and try to get him to take her out of town), resulting in the party having to look after her since she saw the guy's face and can identify him at his trial in Magnimar (scheduled for about the time of the end of Skinsaw).
The current upshot is that the sorcerer is training her, she's traveling with the party, she's Charmed two PCs, *still* hasn't slept with any of them, and has become the 'voice of the GM' to provide commentary on events, people, and social situations in Sandpoint. (Example: Shayliss does *not* believe in the Sandpoint Devil, and does an exaggerated rolling of the eyes every time the PCs talk about it.)
All in all, for a minor NPC at Sandpoint she's managed to become pretty darned significant to the campaign.
Hey all. About to start our new RotRL campaign in a few days, and while planning ahead I ran into a conundrum.
My party consists of:
-female human Rogue
-female halfling Cleric of Erastil
-male human Fighter
-male dwarf SorcererThe fighter has a CHA of 11, and the dwarf sorcerer has a CHA of 15. My question is which one would Shayliss go after? The text says she goes for any male PC who thinks he's quite the ladies man, which is more the dwarf's personality.
So would she try to jump the reasonably handsome human fighter? Or cross the race line and go after the handsome dwarf?
Or, optionally, just make Shayliss into 'Shane' and go from there. I did that with the female ranger, who my wife's female fighter is pursuing.