tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384121608336516305.post297754686553074454..comments2023-05-30T07:24:39.451-04:00Comments on Ramblings of a Great Khan: Norse ThievesThe Great Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384121608336516305.post-38381152592911803962012-03-29T18:30:55.650-04:002012-03-29T18:30:55.650-04:00I just realized as I was rolling up the Clerics th...I just realized as I was rolling up the Clerics that I used the wrong hit die type for all of these Thieves, so they will all need to be amended. You can take the boy away from AD&D....The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384121608336516305.post-20378815678208982042012-03-29T11:50:37.516-04:002012-03-29T11:50:37.516-04:00I talked over the idea of pre-generating the chara...I talked over the idea of pre-generating the characters with my players before I started doing it, we put it to a vote and it came out three in favor, two abstained, one against, with one person absent. As DM I was in favor of doing it this way just because I could also give the characters some slight personality for the players to build off of, some pre-existing relationships between the PCs, and a small stable of ready NPCs/back-up PCs with the same benefits. The one vote against wanted to do a point build system so every PC was equally designed, so I vetoed that idea outright anyway. I prefer the randomness of 3d6 in order, or 4d6 drop the lowest, arrange to taste if we're playing AD&D, but we're not here.The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384121608336516305.post-53943252015904359472012-03-29T11:40:42.740-04:002012-03-29T11:40:42.740-04:00Fighter and Magic-User I can pretty easily transla...Fighter and Magic-User I can pretty easily translate into Old Norse and have a unique Class name for the campaign. The Thief and the Cleric are harder, the Thief because if I just translate Thief into Old Norse it still comes across as a dishonorable outcast type and I want them to be more like a specialist stealthy commando type, the Cleric just because the Norse really didn't have much of an established tradition of priesthood, particularly not of the "crusading-warrior priest" that the Cleric class is modeled on. I suspect I will keep the traditional Class names and just deal with it.The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384121608336516305.post-33703475294402127932012-03-29T11:34:10.518-04:002012-03-29T11:34:10.518-04:00I forgot to mention, but it's worth noting, th...I forgot to mention, but it's worth noting, that I didn't change the random chance for each Alignment. I rolled a d10 for Alignment and 1-5 was Lawful, 6-8 Neutral, and 9-10 Chaotic; it just seems that random chance favored the Thieves in the party being Neutral and Chaotic. My thinking on this is that any Norse population has a strongly Lawful bent, when seen within the context of their own culture; to the outsiders they were raiding I am sure they seemed like horrible savages, but the English and French might as well have been Orcs and Goblins to them.The Great Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342783210750664992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384121608336516305.post-11661515286699611732012-03-29T10:47:28.334-04:002012-03-29T10:47:28.334-04:00Trickster?
Raider?Trickster?<br /><br />Raider?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5384121608336516305.post-78741196852052358652012-03-29T10:18:08.266-04:002012-03-29T10:18:08.266-04:00Good call on the shield for thieves.
I was running...Good call on the shield for thieves.<br />I was running a vaguely Norse campaign before and considered calling thieves 'outlaws,' but it doesn't quite fit since Viking outlaws were so often warriors etc. Likewise 'skald' seemed like a possibility, if you think of thieves as 'specialists' in the LotFP sense. I keep thinking of the characters in sagas who live more by their wits than their brawn, but I don't know if there is any suitable term really...maybe 'rogue' is the best fit, despite its 2e associations. <br /><br />Anyway I think the idea of pre-generating all the PCs is interesting. Does it bother your more experienced players that they can't roll themselves?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com