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If you must know...
In other words, a gang of thieves that hide behind a mask of respectability.
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If you must know...In other words, a gang of thieves that hide behind a mask of respectability.
A group of scholars steering the Society toward fulfilling its goals.
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I would say a reason to cap PFS around lvl 11. Around that level, the venture captains are believably powerful, but only capable of so much on their own.
Once a character goes past these levels, they can each become one person armies, so I imagine their persons are purposefully left ambiguous, so that the efforts of the venture captains and PFS players don't seem overshadowed.
So even though you don't take your cleric to lvl 20 in PFS, you can at least imagine that they would be on a level with the decemvirs.
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I would say a reason to cap PFS around lvl 11. Around that level, the venture captains are believably powerful, but only capable of so much on their own.
Once a character goes past these levels, they can each become one person armies, so I imagine their persons are purposefully left ambiguous, so that the efforts of the venture captains and PFS players don't seem overshadowed.
So even though you don't take your cleric to lvl 20 in PFS, you can at least imagine that they would be on a level with the decemvirs.
A mate of mine just tossed a 22d6 damage dazing fireball into a crowd of 4 enemies in the first round of combat, 3 of which failed their save. He's level 11 and we're in sub-tier 10-11 in a season 6 scenario. From the looks of it, that fight's all but over.
He can only do that like twice a day, but yeah, one-person army is right. XD
Caveat: only applies to some characters. My character has nowhere near that level of power, though he's built to be the meatwall that protects that fireball-tossing maniac. And handle the mooks that don't warrant his big spells. So I guess there's still the team dynamic there.
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A group of 32 beggars that happened to pool their wealth one day in order to send parties of adventurer's into the wild. Upon return half of the items brought back were confiscated in lieu of promises for services rendered "prestige"
Luckily one day they realized a mysterious masked group of flunkies makes an ideal target for enemies of the society. Thus the term decemvirate was born, ten pathfinders were "promoted" and given targets (masks) to hide their identities and give them a longer useful life.
The elaborate ruse soon evolved into a pyramid scheme where masters, venture captains, etc moved up the rungs in order to send even more groups to game or doom. Only those who returned could be fleeced. So to increase profits a fee of 5 "prestige" was offered to recover bodies (in order to loot the remains or if wealthy enough charge the dead to be raised)
So even to this day, the 32 beggars stumble drunkenly down the streets of Absolom laughing at the poor fools who make them unfathomably wealthy.
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Though I'm re-posting it for the second time (both times today), this was my theory on the Decemvirate posted on another thread some time back:
I think...
They are a dragon, or dragons. think about it. PFS is always gathering achient treasures and locking them away somewhere in a vault, so that they can be "studied". The only special material not available? Dragon hide...
I think long ago, some dragon hit upon a method to get someone else to gather a hoard for her. Get the humans to do it!
Somewhere, in a vault protected by all these PF agents, sets a heap of treasure....with a dragon sleeping on it.
WOW...
Now that is one VC that PCs would pay attention to....
So if we're both right, then ...the "man" of 72 alternate identities is really not a "man" at all! That would explain why all attempts to divine the true identity of this person have failed - they were seeking a humanoid when in fact he was a dragon all along!
The fiend! Does his duplicity know no bounds!? XD
