johnbragg
2016-02-28, 11:25 AM
Game is 3.5, modded because the players are my 3 kids age 7-10, just starting to play D&D. 2 Druids, 1 fighter.
Home base is a crossroads hamlet, 6 buildings (temple, tavern, store, 3 houses) at the crossroads, another 15 or so farmhouses scattered in the countryside.
Temple is a temple to the pantheon, with a single non-combatant Cleric 3, who spends his days praying and making the ritual sacrifices and ceremonies to the various gods in turn, with the community occassionally gathering to renew their faith in the pantheon (this devotion powers both the priest and undefined protections for the town/townsfolk.)
Next encounter will see a goblin barbarian 2 stride into town, punch a couple of people out before striding into the temple and beating the stuffing out of the Cleric with his bare hands.
PCs will return from patrolling the woods, hear the news, enter the temple, fight the barbarian, and almost certainly kill him.
The temple is now profaned and de-consecrated, both by having its high priest humiliated and by having blood and entrails spilled all over the main gathering area.
What are some idea for what to do to permanently consecrate a temple, and bestow its protections on the congregation?
Mechanics aren't important, flavor is.
I figure consecrate as a start. Bringing in a higher-level priest seems a must.
I want to have my 2 PC druids partake as supplemental casters, even if they don't cast anything.
THe community will have to gather. Prayers to the FAther and Mother and Child, to the Old Man (ancestor expys), the Farmer and Hunter and Herdsman, (that makes a nice Seven).
Also the Scribe, the Smith, the Weaver, the Beauty, the Warrior and the Joybringer. (That makes Thirteen, another good number).
Each household will dedicate the temple to their family's ancestor spirits. (The PCs should too.)
Something important I'm missing? Thoughts?
Home base is a crossroads hamlet, 6 buildings (temple, tavern, store, 3 houses) at the crossroads, another 15 or so farmhouses scattered in the countryside.
Temple is a temple to the pantheon, with a single non-combatant Cleric 3, who spends his days praying and making the ritual sacrifices and ceremonies to the various gods in turn, with the community occassionally gathering to renew their faith in the pantheon (this devotion powers both the priest and undefined protections for the town/townsfolk.)
Next encounter will see a goblin barbarian 2 stride into town, punch a couple of people out before striding into the temple and beating the stuffing out of the Cleric with his bare hands.
PCs will return from patrolling the woods, hear the news, enter the temple, fight the barbarian, and almost certainly kill him.
The temple is now profaned and de-consecrated, both by having its high priest humiliated and by having blood and entrails spilled all over the main gathering area.
What are some idea for what to do to permanently consecrate a temple, and bestow its protections on the congregation?
Mechanics aren't important, flavor is.
I figure consecrate as a start. Bringing in a higher-level priest seems a must.
I want to have my 2 PC druids partake as supplemental casters, even if they don't cast anything.
THe community will have to gather. Prayers to the FAther and Mother and Child, to the Old Man (ancestor expys), the Farmer and Hunter and Herdsman, (that makes a nice Seven).
Also the Scribe, the Smith, the Weaver, the Beauty, the Warrior and the Joybringer. (That makes Thirteen, another good number).
Each household will dedicate the temple to their family's ancestor spirits. (The PCs should too.)
Something important I'm missing? Thoughts?