High priest of Olidammara has lost his chaos - What kind of a mission should it be?

[Jon_Dahl]

In my D&D 3.5 campaign, there is an easy-going and down-to-earth innkeeper who is a powerful priest of Olidammara. He has loved money more than his god and that has made him a smart and shrewd business man who takes little risks. Him playing safe all the time has resulted in him becoming True Neutral. He was CN before that. He hires the NPC, who are kind of neutral and non-chaotic adventures and who follow no particular god to help him to recover his chaos. This does not need to be a religious mission, because Olidammara is willing to grant him spells if his alignment is right. The problem is that his alignment is wrong at the moment and that needs to be corrected.

Any ideas how you would do this? Consider the campaign a standard Greyhawk setting, in other words the D&D 3.x default setting with everything default as possible.

[liquidformat]

Olidammara is a chaotic neutral god, the inkeeper being TN and not CN isn't an issue and therefore nothing needs to be done...

[Jon_Dahl]

Olidammara is a chaotic neutral god, the inkeeper being TN and not CN isn't an issue and therefore nothing needs to be done...

"A cleric may not
be neutral unless his deity’s
alignment is also neutral."

Player's Handbook, p. 31.

[daremetoidareyo]

It's the comfort that his profit affords him. If he's going chaotic, he's gotta divest from comfort and structure.

[Palanan]

He could take up high-stakes gambling on the side. Stability lost, chaos restored, problem solved.

Maybe not the most quest-worthy approach, but risking the loss of everything you've built on a throw of the dice? Sounds like something a chaotic deity would groove on.

[liquidformat]

"A cleric may not
be neutral unless his deity’s
alignment is also neutral."

Player's Handbook, p. 31.

oh dang only read the first sentence and called it good, well then time for chaos!

How about since he is a merchant hiring the adventurers to protect him while he causes chaos in the money systems in cities, buying up all of a certain product in one city to cause chaos because of scarcity and in another city flooding the market with the product, rinse wash and repeat!

[Telonius]

"Okay, first thing. You're going on a vacation. No, right now. That acolyte over there, the one that's been here about two weeks? He's your replacement for the time being. (Trust me, Ollie would be totally supportive of this). Now, change out of that ridiculous robe, we are going to a bar."

[Particle_Man]

Sounds like one of those movies where some friends get together to denerdify the nerd. So drinking, sex, doing something at a ridiculous high speed, singing, doing something illegal, running from guards, etc. Oh, and a makeover.

Another option, gamble with all of his possessions on one rule of the die in a very, very high stakes game of chance.

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Particle_Man
Another option, gamble with all of his possessions on one rule of the die in a very, very high stakes game of chance.

Already suggested this. Seems like something a god of chaos would love.

[liquidformat]

Already suggested this. Seems like something a god of chaos would love.

I don't think it really goes far enough, it is one simple act that only affects the merchant/powerful priest. The key point of importance is that he was powerful, sure if he was a first level cleric gambling all his possessions should be enough to get him back into good standings but powerful in d&d is on the very low end probably 5-7 and on the high end could be 17-20. Even for a cleric at level 5 one instance of gambling is no where near enough to fix all the order he has caused from years of being a respectable merchant nor enough to justify his power. At level 5 he needs to cause chaos on a metropolis scale at 10 on a country scale and 17+ a world scale.

[Segev]

What did he do before he was an innkeeper? How did he become a cleric of the thief-god in the first place?

[False God]

This sounds like the plot to a really bad parenting movie. All dad needs to do is learn to loosen up and have fun!

Personally if your quest doesn't involve a dance-off I will be disappointed. Extra points if a bard plays Footloose.

[daremetoidareyo]

This sounds like the plot to a really bad parenting movie. All dad needs to do is learn to loosen up and have fun!

Personally if your quest doesn't involve a dance-off I will be disappointed. Extra points if a bard plays Footloose.

Time to travel to limbo to...cha cha with the slaad!

[Jon_Dahl]

What did he do before he was an innkeeper? How did he become a cleric of the thief-god in the first place?

He was a cleric that focused mainly on the wine/party aspect of Olidammara. Since the Olidammara is a thief-god, he had to work with adventuring rogues (peer pressure) and he found himself doing all kinds of less-than-legal jobs alongside of Olidammara worshipers. This wasn't something that he really enjoyed, but there was plenty of sex involved, so it was ok. He also used to be a real barfly, and he was such an expert with bars and their clientele that he started to run one. By that time, he already had a lot of levels in cleric class.

[Particle_Man]

Free drinks night for the town and let hilarity ensue?

[Segev]

He was a cleric that focused mainly on the wine/party aspect of Olidammara. Since the Olidammara is a thief-god, he had to work with adventuring rogues (peer pressure) and he found himself doing all kinds of less-than-legal jobs alongside of Olidammara worshipers. This wasn't something that he really enjoyed, but there was plenty of sex involved, so it was ok. He also used to be a real barfly, and he was such an expert with bars and their clientele that he started to run one. By that time, he already had a lot of levels in cleric class.

Become a quest-giver and a fence for adventurer-acquired items. It will make him money, and he can even give a "good deal" in trade by trading meals and board (and wine and the negotiable affections of any of his employees who are willing to sell that kind of thing) at 75% value rather than 50% the way "those other cheats" would (unless, of course, they want gold, in which case he's giving 50%, too). If this just happens to have thieves come to him with stolen lucre that he doesn't ask too many questions about, and he perhaps bribes guards and such to turn a blind eye on his highly respectable establishment, that should slant him fairly firmly away from any accusation of being "too lawful." And by supporting the thieves of his area, he should be pleasing his god.

So in this case, he's giving the PCs quests to start this new side-business. It's a natural outgrowth of running a tavern, what with those being standard gathering places for mysterious cloaked figures and adventuring parties. He can even have a rule about absolute discretion and a matchmaking service for mysterious cloaked figures and parties whose skills are suitable to the figures' quests.