My group will be playing this next year but I have some questions. What does the militia have for armor and arms? We are starting characters who arrived at Sandpoint and now joined the militia. Is there a symbol of Sandpoint? I imagine a picture of beach cliff with broken lighthouse.
Thanks in advance
I hope to play a swashbuckler based on the character Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride.
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The Sandpoint militia is kind of home-grown and low-key. They don't really have a big militia or an organized one. There's a sample militiaman stat block in Pathfinder 2, though—they generally wear chain shirts and carry a light steel shield, a longsword, and a longbow. The town of Sandpoint doesn't have a symbol... at least, not yet. Might be cool if your players, being new militia members, get involved in some sort of debate or something to help decide this for the town, in fact!
As for swashbucklers... if you still haven't started by the time the Curse of the Crimson Throne starts, you might wanna check out that campaign's Player's Guide for some cool swashbuckly type stuff.
The Sandpoint militia is kind of home-grown and low-key. They don't really have a big militia or an organized one. There's a sample militiaman stat block in Pathfinder 2, though�they generally wear chain shirts and carry a light steel shield, a longsword, and a longbow. The town of Sandpoint doesn't have a symbol... at least, not yet. Might be cool if your players, being new militia members, get involved in some sort of debate or something to help decide this for the town, in fact!
As for swashbucklers... if you still haven't started by the time the Curse of the Crimson Throne starts, you might wanna check out that campaign's Player's Guide for some cool swashbuckly type stuff.
Wow, thanks James for the quick reply and for advice on Crimson Throne.
The Sandpoint militia is kind of home-grown and low-key. They don't really have a big militia or an organized one. There's a sample militiaman stat block in Pathfinder 2, though—they generally wear chain shirts and carry a light steel shield, a longsword, and a longbow.
That stat block (on pp. 16-17) is for the twelve full-time Sandpoint watchmen. The militia are all war1.
A suggestion: Sandpoint used to have a bird as its town symbol (a beach plover, perhaps) but after the Late Unpleasantness that made people uncomfortable, so they stopped using it. If the PCs ask about this, they get off-key, evasive answers.
If the PCs do pick a new symbol, sadly, it probably won't be accepted, because Sandpoint is about to have the worst year of its life, and no one will like to be reminded of that!
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I note incidentally that the heraldic device of Korvosa from the new Players' Guide actually obeys the conventional European rules of heraldry (y'don't see that often in D&D, just look at the Realms and Eberron :) ). You may wish to take that into account in the construction of a hypothetical Sandpoint coat-of-arms.
ETA: Given that, and what we know about Sandpoint and its real-world inspiration Point Arena... May I suggest a hemp leaf vert on a field azure? ^.^
I'd assume the symbol would represent the four founding families and the town's alliance with Magnimar.
I have a player who's really into heraldry and the like. I'd love to see symbols/heraldry for the four families. Has anyone done this yet?