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Dennis Baker wrote:You are the one who took this off the rails, which means you are the one not helping me, KaeYoss has given me some good advice, you have not.KaeYoss wrote:My question is, how does this help him solve the problem in his group?Blue Star wrote:I'm mature enough to admit I need help, asking the largest pool of knowledge, ideas, and personalities I know of is simply tapping the source of the best/most varied responses I can get.And it was a good idea. Sure, just asking the net and not seeking to solve this by yourself by talking with all parties involved would not really help you, but that doesn't mean you can't use the internet at all.
Hi Blue!
First time poster. I'm trying to catch both sides of the argument, so bear with me, but here is my personal opinion:
1) Her reasons for wanting the sword are somewhat valid in RP terms - I think a sunblade would be a precious thing to a dedicated cleric of a sun god. However, the fact that she cannot wield the weapon and has no skill in it makes it seem a little silly to me that she wants to hoard it when little use can be gotten from it. That seems stubborn, irrational, and doesn't make sense to me RP-wise either. A necromancer may be fascinated by sword made of bone, but to demand to wield it? kinda silly. A staff of bone is a different matter...
2) It seems like this situation has progressed beyond any reasonable discourse at the game table. So it's up to you to either make a decision and stick to it, or leave the game.
3) In-character, your ninjasssassin would probably recognize the cleric's complete inability to wield the sunblade effectively. What is your ninja's alignment? If I were a good or maybe even neutral character, I might say, 'You dishonor your god by handling a divine gift as a green child would. When you can wield a sword, and do justice to your god by doing so, then I will relinquish it. At the moment you risk cutting yourself with your own blade, the way you handle such a weapon." In other words, until she at least takes a feat so that she can wield the weapon, there is no reason for her to have it. If my character was evil, well...
4) If she invests the feat, I would probably give her the sword, knowing that it's A) down the road a level or two, and B) that it would give me some time to talk to the DM and push for an alternative weapon to come down the pike that my two-weapon assassin will be able to wield without stepping on her toes. The DM may not have any responsibility to end discord at the table (although I think that he does), but if you present a rational method for both of you to (eventually) clear this impasse and the DM can assist in doing so, he'd be a little knuckleheaded not to.
Just my two-cents.
Cheers.