From lev at rpgreview.net Sun Mar 25 22:33:00 2018 From: lev at rpgreview.net (Lev Lafayette) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 09:33:00 +1100 Subject: [Questworld] Reaver options Message-ID: <8ca8c36c6ea4c44161ed776908d2821b.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net> The way I see it we need to unite the smaller and more civil groups (landowners, merchants, watch etc) against the larger group (Reavers). If the former are even slightly smart they will realise that the Reavers will eventually take over the entire city through a divide-and-conquer method - and they should realise that as much as they may not like each other, they would like that eventually even less. Who knows, they may even decide on a power-sharing agreement and end up with a town council or something. The Free City of Elderard! However our more immediate problem is the Reavers and the appropriately named Carthug. He controls a shaman through addiction, which is ironic given how much weird herbs a shaman usually consumes. So apparently it is very special and has to come from some special den and special brew, which suggests to me some sort of other shaman, priest, or even a sorcerer. We could either (a) cut of the supply from the den to the Carthug or (b) take the shaman away from the supplier and provide a new source. As much as I like the latter, the former might be easier. Plus, I'd *love* to see what a strung out shaman does to Carthug when we realises that the thug cannot provide the special goods. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt http://www.quicksales.com.au/shop/RPG-Review.aspx From superfluos at gmail.com Sun Mar 25 22:49:02 2018 From: superfluos at gmail.com (Jay Superfluous) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 22:49:02 +0000 Subject: [Questworld] Reaver options In-Reply-To: <8ca8c36c6ea4c44161ed776908d2821b.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net> References: <8ca8c36c6ea4c44161ed776908d2821b.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net> Message-ID: Remember, the Reavers have been extant for 29 years in the city - they're not necessarily a new thing. Unless they have recently been extending their control, we may not be able to sell our program as against a growing threat . . . we were told that they concentrate of the slums. The question then becomes, why do they concentate on the slums without trying to "protect" the more affluent areas of the city - there would have to exist an active deterrent already to prevent their doing so . . . Jay On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:33 AM Lev Lafayette wrote: > The way I see it we need to unite the smaller and more civil groups > (landowners, merchants, watch etc) against the larger group (Reavers). If > the former are even slightly smart they will realise that the Reavers will > eventually take over the entire city through a divide-and-conquer method - > and they should realise that as much as they may not like each other, they > would like that eventually even less. Who knows, they may even decide on a > power-sharing agreement and end up with a town council or something. The > Free City of Elderard! > > However our more immediate problem is the Reavers and the appropriately > named Carthug. He controls a shaman through addiction, which is ironic > given how much weird herbs a shaman usually consumes. So apparently it is > very special and has to come from some special den and special brew, which > suggests to me some sort of other shaman, priest, or even a sorcerer. > > We could either (a) cut of the supply from the den to the Carthug or (b) > take the shaman away from the supplier and provide a new source. As much > as I like the latter, the former might be easier. Plus, I'd *love* to see > what a strung out shaman does to Carthug when we realises that the thug > cannot provide the special goods. > > > -- > Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech > Mngmnt) (Chifley) > mobile: 0432 255 208 > RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt > http://www.quicksales.com.au/shop/RPG-Review.aspx > > > _______________________________________________ > Questworld mailing list > Questworld at rpgreview.net > http://mail.rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/questworld_rpgreview.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lev at rpgreview.net Tue Mar 27 23:36:29 2018 From: lev at rpgreview.net (Lev Lafayette) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:36:29 +1100 Subject: [Questworld] Reaver options In-Reply-To: References: <8ca8c36c6ea4c44161ed776908d2821b.squirrel@webmail.rpgreview.net> Message-ID: On Mon, March 26, 2018 9:49 am, Jay Superfluous wrote: > Remember, the Reavers have been extant for 29 years in the city - > they're not necessarily a new thing. Unless they have recently been > extending their control, we may not be able to sell our program as against > a growing threat . . . we were told that they concentrate of the slums. > The question then becomes, > why do they concentate on the slums without trying to "protect" the more > affluent areas of the city - there would have to exist an active > deterrent already to prevent their doing so . . . I suspect they haven't been the problem they are now for all of those 29 years because if they were either (a) they would be the government and Elderard would be an authoritarian city-state or (b) others would have witnessed their attempted rise to power and squashed them appropriately. It seems to me (and Andrew, could you confirm?) that the current power of the Reavers is a recent rise in capability and operations. The other factions of the city have to realise that if they don't stop the Reavers now, it will become too late.. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt http://www.quicksales.com.au/shop/RPG-Review.aspx