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To give more flavor for my group, I decided to cast the major NPC's with real-life actors. A dream cast if you will here's what I have so far(have only just finished chpater 1):

Livinia Vanderboren: Natalie Portman
Vanthus Vanderboren: Leonardo Dicaprio
Kora Whistlegap(Livinia's halfling maid): Rhea Pearlman
The Jade Ravens:
Tolin: Clive Owen
Zan: Taylor Lautner
Kaskus: Daniel Bryan (WWE Wrestler)
Liamae: Kelly Hu (Hawaii 5-0)
The Kellani's
Rowyn: Bryce Dallas Howard
Heldrath: Julianne Moore
The Islaran's
Keltar: Kevin McNally(Pirates of the Carribean)
Aylssa: Emma Watson
Emil Dracktus (Noble of Shadowshore):Cole Hauser


As a 37 year old who has played 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 3.5. I can say that the company was seriously trying to tap into the MMORG(for game play) and Anime/Manga(for background info) crowd with 4th ed.(The Book of Nine Swords was so anime I think they tried to test that market with that book) They must have learned quick that eventhough MMORG's dominated PC gaming and Anime has had a stranglehold on animation, D&D players don't all fit into that niche.


Handling PC's as a cleric of Wee Jas:

One of my more role-playing PC's decided to start the campaign as a cleric of wee Jas. I thought this could become a issue but since he plays most of his charcters against the grain of a typical cleric, I thought of interesting role-play issues that eventually made him chose to either follw his strict church doctrines or rebel against them. He actually died in chapter 1 but was resurrected at the church alter through the power of Wee Jas and was given a vison that he was chosen to bring the church back to the path of neutrality. This miracle made Embril and Ike cautious. The trick was not to give away the church's involvement in the grand plot until the chapter involoving the direct assualt of the temple. I made sure his character was left completely out-ot-the loop of church info. He made it kind of easy for the church to justifiably ostricize him being that he made his character (like most of the character he plays) something of a celebutant in social circles. He even decided to perform a great spectacle and sacrific a cache of magic daggers. Ike secretly altered the ceremony to his advantage. The church constantly kept him away from the church by making him do meanial tasks far below his station. Ike made Calmus Vel become the only point of contact he could speak to feeding him misinformation eventually building up to an ultimatum; either he left his adventuring party or be ex-communicated. He chose to assault the temple, kill Ike and expose the Embril's scheme to the lay followers and lower level clerics of the church. The High-preistess in Sasserine closed the temple.


pres man wrote:
TriOmegaZero wrote:

There should not have been holy and unholy bonuses/energy, it should have been divine, covering both sides.

pres man wrote:
Well the ones without the [Evil] descriptor anyway.
But again, that's not a ban on Necromancy spells, it's a ban on spells with the [Evil] descriptor. Some Necromancy spells happen to be [Evil] is all.
True, but Necromancy has a disproportionate number of spells with that descriptor.

OK, I am the DM Steven is referring to. We have agreed to keep things as they were. I still have issues with the amount of things from the Book of Exhalted Deeds his character has done but, I'll just have to deal with it becauase I opened that door with him yet again. The main point of the post is the wording in the holy symbol description.