AlanBruce
2014-03-11, 05:03 AM
Greetings! I have a player who has a human paragon/cleric/prestige paladin/inquisitor.
After many arcs in the campaign, the paladin has taken a new view at life. He finds the structured life of a paladin and inquisitor confining. Not to mention his backstory is riddled with corrupt church leaders that have used him to gain power for themselves.
This paladin has had enough. He won't be evil. he wants to protect life and has done so maginificently as a paladin and cleric, but now he wants to take this duty through a different angle.
In one of the earliest arcs, the party saved the Fey woods from an undead incursion. The fey leaders, particularly an elder dryad with druid levels, told him that if he ever needed a favor, she and her coven would be in debt.
Now, the time has come to collect on it.
The player wants to retrain his paladin and inquisitor levels to druid. Unless the math is off, he should end up casting 4th levels cleric spells and 3rd level druid. he's planning on taking the ACF that makes you rage (forget the name) and, surprisingly enough, will not take Natural spell, since he is already a DMM persist cleric.
The dryad elder has agreed to train him in the middle of winter. I believe by the rules in PHB2, it takes a week/level and/or feat retrained.
We're looking at 8 weeks training, since he wants to retrain 2 feats as well.
We want to make this more of a fluff, rathet than mechanical. Make it fun, since it's PbP.
I'd like some ideas, if possible, for training that covers the following:
druid spells
living in the wild
rage
wildshape
new domains (Sun and Plant are his chosen)
The rest of the party is taking downtime.... of sorts.
The dragonshaman/marshall wishes to retrain marshal levels back to shaman (2 weeks), but she'll be traveling to the ice covered mountains. Far, far away in search of a "spiritual journey" of sorts.
The pixie bard wishes to retrain a feat with the Fey Woods de facto master bard pixie balladeer (1 week)
The drow paladin of freedom will stay in the woods and protect it, should any foes decide to show up while her friends train, while learning more fey lore from a glasitig of great power that resides in a large body of water (ally to the party)
The party wizard is in a nearby town scribing spells and scrolls with the help of two wizard npcs, but can teleport to the woods if trouble shows up.
So any ideas on how to make the training montage interesting? And and all help is greatly appreciated.
The party is ECL 13.
And yes, a small encounter may take place during training, but ideally after the shaman and pixie are done, so it's 4 vs 3 (if the wizard shows up to assist). The cleric will not participate by his own decision, since he wishes for the other player's PCs to catch up levelwise.
After many arcs in the campaign, the paladin has taken a new view at life. He finds the structured life of a paladin and inquisitor confining. Not to mention his backstory is riddled with corrupt church leaders that have used him to gain power for themselves.
This paladin has had enough. He won't be evil. he wants to protect life and has done so maginificently as a paladin and cleric, but now he wants to take this duty through a different angle.
In one of the earliest arcs, the party saved the Fey woods from an undead incursion. The fey leaders, particularly an elder dryad with druid levels, told him that if he ever needed a favor, she and her coven would be in debt.
Now, the time has come to collect on it.
The player wants to retrain his paladin and inquisitor levels to druid. Unless the math is off, he should end up casting 4th levels cleric spells and 3rd level druid. he's planning on taking the ACF that makes you rage (forget the name) and, surprisingly enough, will not take Natural spell, since he is already a DMM persist cleric.
The dryad elder has agreed to train him in the middle of winter. I believe by the rules in PHB2, it takes a week/level and/or feat retrained.
We're looking at 8 weeks training, since he wants to retrain 2 feats as well.
We want to make this more of a fluff, rathet than mechanical. Make it fun, since it's PbP.
I'd like some ideas, if possible, for training that covers the following:
druid spells
living in the wild
rage
wildshape
new domains (Sun and Plant are his chosen)
The rest of the party is taking downtime.... of sorts.
The dragonshaman/marshall wishes to retrain marshal levels back to shaman (2 weeks), but she'll be traveling to the ice covered mountains. Far, far away in search of a "spiritual journey" of sorts.
The pixie bard wishes to retrain a feat with the Fey Woods de facto master bard pixie balladeer (1 week)
The drow paladin of freedom will stay in the woods and protect it, should any foes decide to show up while her friends train, while learning more fey lore from a glasitig of great power that resides in a large body of water (ally to the party)
The party wizard is in a nearby town scribing spells and scrolls with the help of two wizard npcs, but can teleport to the woods if trouble shows up.
So any ideas on how to make the training montage interesting? And and all help is greatly appreciated.
The party is ECL 13.
And yes, a small encounter may take place during training, but ideally after the shaman and pixie are done, so it's 4 vs 3 (if the wizard shows up to assist). The cleric will not participate by his own decision, since he wishes for the other player's PCs to catch up levelwise.