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Just curious what people think here. Are we talkin' in-depth, multi-person interviews + scrying? Paper application? Donations? "Donations"? Favors? Targeted recruitment?
This comes on the heels of attempting to determine an appropriate faction for a character of the following proclivities:
-CN cleric of Lamashtu
-Loves children, volunteers at orphanages regularly (day job will be Prof: Childcare)
-Mindbogglingly pleasant and unquestionably insane
-Not motivated by personal power (Dark Archive), knowledge (Scarab Sages), or money (The Exchange)
-Indifferent towards the Society generally, but sees them as a useful means of bringing him to places where he can help more children (Grand Lodge)
-Dislikes conflict for how frequently it harms children (Liberty's Edge)
-HATES aristocracy for its pureblood obsession (Sovereign Court)
Thus, the motivations of the character lead him towards the Silver Crusade (the only faction who cares about the safety of children as much as this character) and, therefore, this uncomfortable conversation:
Me: "Yes, Lady Ollysta, I'd like to join the Silver Crusade for the sake of the children."
Ollysta Zadrian: *Detect Evil* "NOPE!"
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Sounds like an odd follower of Lamashtu; is the cleric a Separatist?
The character is for Core campaign, so it's a straight cleric with no archetypes. The oddness is to be Good enough for PFS, bringing him to the acceptable CN alignment.
I believe that the Silver Crusade cares about the well being of children, not making them plump enough to be fed to Lamashtu, or her minions.
Nobody said anything about feeding to Lamashtu or her minions. Ozrik genuinely wants the children to grow up to at least child-bearing age. "Remember, a full womb is pleasing to the Mother, so get crackin'!"
I say go Silver Crusade. The potential conflict is good RP fodder, and it fits the best.
It sort of does and doesn't fit best at the same time. This is my constant quandary with the factions.
maybe house hufflep...erm. Grand lodge is for you.
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Just as the gods can be worshiped in many ways, the factions do not need to be so one dimensional.
-Dark Archive,
Doesn't need to be about personal power.
Maybe you are committed to keeping powerful artifacts out of the wrong hands.
-Liberty's Edge
Slavery is bad, but doesn't mean you are a revolutionary.
Maybe you are specifically committed to ending child slavery.
If you don't care about slavery then not for you.
-The Exchange
Make money: donate it to Orphanages. Seems reasonable.
-Grand Lodge,
You ARE a Pathfinder so, no conflict, but maybe a little boring.
-Sovereign Court
A stretch, but maybe you see the strength in the aristocracy and want to direct it toward charitable work. I dunno.
-Silver Crusade
Actually seems like a great fit, See Zadrian's willingness to overlook sketchy characters if they are working for a good cause. Possible conflict with other faction members so, as much as depends on you: cooperate.
-Scarab Sages
Actually the only one I don't see working for you.
Sorry for the very condensed explanations, but I'm on my tablet.
Venture-Captain, Germany—Hamburg
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Sounds like an odd follower of Lamashtu; is the cleric a Separatist?The character is for Core campaign, so it's a straight cleric with no archetypes. The oddness is to be Good enough for PFS, bringing him to the acceptable CN alignment.
It actually makes him too good for a follower of Lamashtu IMO...
I believe that the Silver Crusade cares about the well being of children, not making them plump enough to be fed to Lamashtu, or her minions.Nobody said anything about feeding to Lamashtu or her minions. Ozrik genuinely wants the children to grow up to at least child-bearing age. "Remember, a full womb is pleasing to the Mother, so get crackin'!"
Yes, a womb filled with some mutated monstrosity, not a perfectly healthy human.
While the concept of a children-loving character does fit the Silver Crusade, I think it doesn't fit a cleric of Lamashtu. I suppose you made this choice for the madness domain?
What I think would fit a bit more into Lamashtu worship is teaching the children to "be tolerant" towards other races and not be ashamed of one's body or sexuality, to the point where, as young adults, these children see nothing wrong in happily having sex with any kind of species. That might even lead to offspring (the kind Lamashtu likes), because Lamashtu is indeed capable of that kind of divine intervention.
You might want to look at Dark archives then because those guys experiment with strange and possibly dangerous artifacts, which is both quite insane and might lead to finding stuff that is able to manipulate the growth of an unborn child.
Pretty sure a level 1 cleric of Lamashtu will detect as faint evil.
He does. The cleric's aura depends on his deity's alignment, not his own alignment.
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This highlights one of the big issues with pathfinder society (well really organized play in general). On the one hand we want players to be able to play whatever they want. On the other hand, many PCs would never have even been interested in applying to join the pathfinder society and most of them would have been rejected.
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Sounds like an odd follower of Lamashtu; is the cleric a Separatist?The character is for Core campaign, so it's a straight cleric with no archetypes. The oddness is to be Good enough for PFS, bringing him to the acceptable CN alignment.It actually makes him too good for a follower of Lamashtu IMO...
I believe that the Silver Crusade cares about the well being of children, not making them plump enough to be fed to Lamashtu, or her minions.Nobody said anything about feeding to Lamashtu or her minions. Ozrik genuinely wants the children to grow up to at least child-bearing age. "Remember, a full womb is pleasing to the Mother, so get crackin'!"Yes, a womb filled with some mutated monstrosity, not a perfectly healthy human.
While the concept of a children-loving character does fit the Silver Crusade, I think it doesn't fit a cleric of Lamashtu. I suppose you made this choice for the madness domain?
What I think would fit a bit more into Lamashtu worship is teaching the children to "be tolerant" towards other races and not be ashamed of one's body or sexuality, to the point where, as young adults, these children see nothing wrong in happily having sex with any kind of species. That might even lead to offspring (the kind Lamashtu likes), because Lamashtu is indeed capable of that kind of divine intervention.
You might want to look at Dark archives then because those guys experiment with strange and possibly dangerous artifacts, which is both quite insane and might lead to finding stuff that is able to manipulate the growth of an unborn child.
Tolerance and interspeciality is definitely on the books for this character's teachings. The nice thing about caring for children is that it makes for easier indoctrination. Don't worry, there's enough Evil to balance out to Neutral.
Re: Madness domain - Yes, I've wanted to play with the Madness domain and I've seriously toyed with it in the standard campaign with different deities. I felt that Core presented a good opportunity to actually play a Cleric, so I was rather confined in my available choices. The concept was just funny, though, so I ran with it.
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Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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Newest character is a half-orc paladin of Shelyn, she joined the Dark Archive, since some things are better put away than destroyed. The fact that some of those are peerless pieces of art, is definitely relevant too.
Oh and I intend, to RP that character (despite the 8 WIS) to be very conservative when it comes to using detect evil, and it really is no justification to hit people.
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Venture-Agent, Idaho—Moscow
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I always enjoy explaining to people how my own ninja paladin of Shelyn detects as moderate good and faint evil (a boon(?),okay), and once hugged a petulance demon in the Worldwound when attempting to get it to reconsider its life-choices. The demon refused to give us a name (as demons are), so we named it Chancy. And then my Paladin convinced the party to let it go. After all, as a follower of Shelyn, you should look for the beauty in all. Even Chancy, the petulance demon.