Shattered Honor – Part Fifty-Four
Chapter: Season Ten
Characters: Sam
By the letter of the spell description, Lesser Restoration does not specifically call out this kind of situation. Sam is making a reach for something. We’ll see how Brett rules in the next installment.
In regard to Calvis offering up gold coins to Felicos for spell casting, that isn’t the rules anywhere. I just always liked the idea of the Favored Coins and Daggers of Felicos offering up small offerings to use altruistic powers. Where do all of those coins and offerings go? Well, in my canon, Felicos is not hurting for money and he keep it all somewhere…
Spells absolutely have material components and are often consumed in the process, so I don’t necessarily see this canon of offering tithes in exchange for divine power as a terrible stretch. It adds a lot of color to a fiction that is often lost in the Vancian style! 🙂
The coin thing is great. Love when DMs add things like this to make being a follower of a deity more than access to domains and such (have done similar things myself)
Also great work showing “player ingenuity” – can wait to see how Brett rolls with that particular punch.
Oops- can’t wait
Well, technically it’s a curveball in answer to another curveball (aka the Crit glitch), so I’d go with a “Yes” 😉
That’s my expectation as well – two of the most important phrases in the DM toolbox are
“Yes, and” or “No, but” – both keep the action rolling and often toss those curveballs right back at the players in an effort to create memorable sessions
I love this! Whenever I run a game I like to think outside the box and anyone of the players at my Table will be rewarded if they do to.
Sam deserves an inspiration point for this one.
The Acquisitions Incorporated book for D&D has spells with a “royalty component.” The idea is that when you cast them, you have to give some gold to the Acquisitons Inc staff who originally made the spell. If you cast “Jim’s Magic Missile,” it has a few advantages over the normal version, but it also has a 1 gp royalty component. It’s been interesting in my home campaign with middle school kids to see that they don’t shy away from that royalty component. They enjoy it, find it funny, and just go off to find more gold. Good stuff. I really like the idea in the Karthun context, or really for any god of rogues/commerce.
I adore the Acquisitions Incorporated book. And the royalty thing is a neat idea.
Also showed up in XCrawl back in 2007. Copyrighted spells.
I love this on several levels clever way to cast divine spells clever use of a spell in an unorthadox way a charicter RPing well
Felicos “not hurting for money” and “keep[ing] it all somewhere” sounds like a plot hook for high level adventurers to go raid his stores. 😉
Which is of course exactly the point. I would imagine Felicos is *delighted* at the idea of folks raiding his storehouses and vaults, proving themselves against the perils within.
His priests know this, and know that if they’re worthy, they may get whispers of where a swirly golden portalay be found…
Well, atleast in pathfinder restoration, lesser, restores damaged mental attributes as well as physical, so if he has wisdom, charisma or int damage from his eons spent as an aimless ghost, which I think is realistic, it totally should work!
It’s great to see Sam so happy. Looks like Santa is bringing back his love of gaming this Christmas.
“Hey ghost guy. Sun’s gettin’ real low…”
Where do the coins go? Same place they come from when Uncle Fred pulls one out of your ear.
I’m not usually much of a commenter, but I have to say that I really like the art in that last panel. I enjoy all of your artwork in general, Brian, but this panel is my current favourite – it has great visual balance and a really positive vibe. I also like what Calvis/Sam says in it – we all get lost sometimes, and need someone to show us the way back. Fine work 🙂