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In our run through Skull & Shackles, we lost a cleric of Besmara early (not dead, but left for dead..) and that player brought in MisBell. MisBell is a pixie-fairy, our GM and I worked out what this 6 inch tall race is (ARG - another interesting story).
Well MisBell took it upon herself and her loot to make arrangements for the party at the end of the The Island of Empty Eyes. Our Captain, Iron Mary Kindly, had made arrangements and then the Calistrian fleet arrived to fulfill their contract with MisBell.
There was a water show, imagine a choreographed swim number from a 50s film, say White Christmas singing but on/in the water. This featured hundreds of actors, via illusion, doing their number which culminated in the priestesses of Calistria "arriving" on the backs of two deinosuchus's, charmed just for this opening act of the dinner. There were fireworks before desert was served, a 10 minute spectacular described as Disneyland's nightly show. Then when the real drinking started, the green slime wrestling began. Lots of drinking during the wrestling, after which there was a wrestler meet and greet. Followed by poorly coordinated amateur bouts. More drinking and finally exhaustion and passing out.
Naturally interspersed, per the module, our worth was tested. After the party and all the trials our GM took the time to do the scoring with us. He explained how the module did it and we went through the steps of scoring. It was a nail biter, we had some significant failures with the trials; we were at 14 points and it looked like we had secured the Captain's spot on the council. Then he said there was one last category for score, we all gasped - some of the scoring had been negative in nature, do x or get no points. The last category was "How much additional did you spend on the party? Get 1 point for every 1,000 gold."
We were desperately doing mental math, as we had spent 2k or 3k on invitations. When MisBell's player asked, "Does what I spent for the party count?" We all looked at the player first; our heads all turning in unison to hear our GM answer "Yes." There was silence and some one asked "How much did you spend?" The player giggled and our GM said "Add 150 points to your score and you have gotten the best result from the party. You are all admitted to the Pirate Council as Free Captains."
150,000 GP spent
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How did one character (a newly arrived one, from the sounds of it) have 150k? You should all have been around 10th-level by the party, and even a 13th-level character would only have about 140k including gear, consumables, etc.
So, cool story, but it kind of trivializes the entire party when one character can just do a buy out for the whole group when other skill checks were otherwise so important in getting a seat on the pirate council.
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How did one character (a newly arrived one, from the sounds of it) have 150k? You should all have been around 10th-level by the party, and even a 13th-level character would only have about 140k including gear, consumables, etc.
She joined us during the first book, Mutiny on the Wormwood. She had been accumulating since Bone Wrack Isle (where we found her), with some small expenditures along the way.
We have been a very aggressive ship taking crew and that is where the money is when you go pirating. We are a party of 6 and or DM has beefs up encounters as he feels necessary. We do not use wealth by level and Misbell has been successful at absconding with extra shares of loot.
For that matter we went through first two books with a coin that doubled our chance of random encounters, we caught a lot of ships and got a lot of loot and plunder. We did get lucky and get more ships than sea monsters.
So, cool story, but it kind of trivializes the entire party when one character can just do a buy out for the whole group when other skill checks were otherwise so important in getting a seat on the pirate council.
It is a cool story and since none of us knew the rules governing the party as we played it out, nothing we did was trivialized. It was the best way to play it and we loved the outcome. Everyone shined at they favorite thing, including Misbell at going ridiculously extreme.
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Nice, I like it!
I expect my group won't be able to spend so much. They are playing Island of Empty Eyes now and are still securing the island and dealing with ghost Bikendi.
But some do have an eye for showmanship so I'm curious to see how it will play out.
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Nice, I like it!
I expect my group won't be able to spend so much. They are playing Island of Empty Eyes now and are still securing the island and dealing with ghost Bikendi.
But some do have an eye for showmanship so I'm curious to see how it will play out.
We did Bikendi last. The haunting of the first night spooked us good, so we did everything else then came back to the fort.