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subplotkudzu) wrote2006-10-01 05:55 am
subplotkudzu) wrote2006-10-01 05:55 am
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Emirikol the city and Fencing Styles
I would have been better served not naming the damn city something that uses a key that sticks on my keyboard. 20 seconds to type one E....
Anyway, spent some time yesterday going through all my old Dungeon Adventures modules to find things I always wanted to use but haven't yet. This netted a nice array of intrigue/mystery based city adventures, a few water based ones for the port and a real dearth of dungeons, because 2E was all about getting out of the dungeon. Looks like I'm building the tombs myself. I a fit of high octane lazy, I decided that Emirikol the city is called 'The Chaotic' because it's actually 5 or 6 smaller nobleman's townships that all grew together to take advantage of the port. This means 5 or 6 different architectural styles encased in 5 or 6 different walled areas, with one big wall around the outside.
Why is this decision lazy? So I don't have to go in and change the names of the non-generic towns in the adventure notes - all of these 'cities' are just parts of the big, main city. How sloth leads to creativity!
To keep from having to do too much development of areas in the empire outside of Emirikol, I'll probably name the fencing styles after each of these sections, to further emphasize their distinct feel.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladegard has offered to help with the fencing styles, but just looking at the PHB I know there are some obvious ones.
A STR based style built off of Power Attack and Sunder, where practitioners use longswords or gt exotic weapon proficiency with bastard sword to switch between one and two handed strikes.
An INT based style built off of Expertise, all about avoiding being hit as you disarm and trip your opponent.
A CON based style for wizards and sorcerers built around the Concentration skill, Combat Casting and Still Spell (no somatic component means no chance of spell failure in armor...).
A DEX based style built off of Dodge, Improved Initiative and the Tumbling skill, all about moving in and out of range to attack.
A CHA based style built around the new Improved Feint feat, with a high Bluff score. This one needs more options added to it.
While it would be spiffy to add a WIS based style, nothing comes to mind, and I don't want to force anything to make the world model game mechanics.
Plus, there are the obvious Two Weapon and Weapon and Shield styles (especially with some new Shield feats cribbed from various sources). I'd like to give a few more skills combat effects, only accessible with 5+ ranks and maybe formal training, just to broaden out the options and flavor some. This is the sort of thing I'll need Ladegard's help on, because I don't know real fencing for diddly.
Anyway, spent some time yesterday going through all my old Dungeon Adventures modules to find things I always wanted to use but haven't yet. This netted a nice array of intrigue/mystery based city adventures, a few water based ones for the port and a real dearth of dungeons, because 2E was all about getting out of the dungeon. Looks like I'm building the tombs myself. I a fit of high octane lazy, I decided that Emirikol the city is called 'The Chaotic' because it's actually 5 or 6 smaller nobleman's townships that all grew together to take advantage of the port. This means 5 or 6 different architectural styles encased in 5 or 6 different walled areas, with one big wall around the outside.
Why is this decision lazy? So I don't have to go in and change the names of the non-generic towns in the adventure notes - all of these 'cities' are just parts of the big, main city. How sloth leads to creativity!
To keep from having to do too much development of areas in the empire outside of Emirikol, I'll probably name the fencing styles after each of these sections, to further emphasize their distinct feel.
ladegard has offered to help with the fencing styles, but just looking at the PHB I know there are some obvious ones.A STR based style built off of Power Attack and Sunder, where practitioners use longswords or gt exotic weapon proficiency with bastard sword to switch between one and two handed strikes.
An INT based style built off of Expertise, all about avoiding being hit as you disarm and trip your opponent.
A CON based style for wizards and sorcerers built around the Concentration skill, Combat Casting and Still Spell (no somatic component means no chance of spell failure in armor...).
A DEX based style built off of Dodge, Improved Initiative and the Tumbling skill, all about moving in and out of range to attack.
A CHA based style built around the new Improved Feint feat, with a high Bluff score. This one needs more options added to it.
While it would be spiffy to add a WIS based style, nothing comes to mind, and I don't want to force anything to make the world model game mechanics.
Plus, there are the obvious Two Weapon and Weapon and Shield styles (especially with some new Shield feats cribbed from various sources). I'd like to give a few more skills combat effects, only accessible with 5+ ranks and maybe formal training, just to broaden out the options and flavor some. This is the sort of thing I'll need Ladegard's help on, because I don't know real fencing for diddly.
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