Shira
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Post by Shira on Mar 14, 2013 17:35:49 GMT -5
Okay, so it's a small group of half-elf shadowdancers who follow Sehanine Moonbow. They use their shadowdancing skills to mystify and bring their audience to a higher level of consciousness - audiences containing half-elves, who might then be inclined to seek further enlightenment via the Luminous Cloud.
My agenda is to create a satisfactory background for a character, a shadowdancer follower of Sehanine, but it seems like a pretty nifty idea by itself.
(I haven't applied for the shadowdancer class yet, I'm asking this first)
Added DM QA to the title. ~ DM Aodhan
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Post by Savoie Faire on Mar 15, 2013 11:08:23 GMT -5
If you wish to have a player-run group, then the answer is yes.
If you wish to create a new guild, then by following the rules posted for establishing a guild, you may also do this.
The staff will not do this for you, nor will we provide support other than as we do to every other guild. So, if you desire help creating an atmosphere for a meeting and a DM is available and willing, then you may receive that kind of help, but every aspect of organization and roleplay is for the player to perform, and DM assistance is not to be taken for granted.
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Shira
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Post by Shira on Mar 15, 2013 19:43:05 GMT -5
Oh, I only meant taking creative liberty to RP its existence.
Edit: Here's my current idea of the 'order', or whatever it is:
Bound together by a guiding principle of offering enlightening experience to elf-kin by their mystifying dance in the name of Sehanine Moonbow, this group of elf-kin (not just half-elf) shadowdancers also use their subtle abilities to help the Knights of the Seven Sacred Mysteries in their duties defending elven lands and seeking out elven art/lore and illusion/divination artifacts in ruins. However, as per the individualistic tendencies of elves, some choose the life of an adventurer, and go out into non-elven lands to bring mystic wonder to elf-kin abroad while they do their own thing.
I toyed with the idea of espionage, but that seems to fall into harper territory.
As a group they would be elusive and difficult to pinpoint, like the Veiled Choir.
They should have a proper name, like the Order of the Moon's Shadow. I realize this can sound bad, like there's a Shar order called the Dark Moon, but Sehanine is a god of illusion and mystery, she can't be completely separate from 'darkness'. And it might amuse her to have people wondering about that name. Like, it could also mean the shadow cast by the moon, co-existing with it. I don't know.
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Post by Savoie Faire on Mar 18, 2013 15:19:12 GMT -5
One should carefully examine the Shadowdancer PrC so that one does not inadvertently create a new PrC using the original as a template. The powers of the shadowdancer are not divine in origin.
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Shira
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Post by Shira on Mar 18, 2013 18:44:54 GMT -5
I never thought of the shadowdancer's abilities as divine or from Sehanine. Their dance is mystifying as it is (i.e. Shadow Daze), thus can be used to affect the consciousness of the audience, thus can be used to serve Sehanine.
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Post by Munroe on Mar 19, 2013 19:32:10 GMT -5
As Savoie Faire said above, you may attempt to start a player-run group of Sehanine Moonbow followers. Anyone may attempt to start a sect of whatever.
If you seek to create a guild, it would go through the normal guild establishment rules.
What I'd also like to add is that each individual character would have to apply as a shadowdancer individually. You can start a Sehanine Moonbow group, but even if you get such a group off the ground, there's no blanket approval for members of that group being approved as shadowdancers.
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Post by Shira on Mar 21, 2013 12:50:50 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I didn't get the message across, or if you're answering indirectly. I had no particular intention of creating a player-based group. I was asking if I could pretend there was this group scattered 'elsewhere' in Faerun, no one in Cormyr likely to ever meet them.
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Post by Munroe on Mar 21, 2013 13:11:59 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I didn't get the message across, or if you're answering indirectly. I had no particular intention of creating a player-based group. I was asking if I could pretend there was this group scattered 'elsewhere' in Faerun, no one in Cormyr likely to ever meet them. That wasn't clear in the initial post, sorry. You can say she has a background with a troupe of shadowdancers elsewhere in Faerun, but she doesn't start play in FRC as a shadowdancer and her background should, at most, reflect previous experience with shadowdancers, not previous experience as a shadowdancer. Prior to gaining her first shadowdancer level on FRC, she is not a shadowdancer. As for them being worshipers of Sehanine Moonbow? If it's just a single troupe, it doesn't matter either way. Shadowdancers aren't a cornerstone of Sehanine Moonbow's faith, and Sehanine Moonbow isn't a cornerstone of shadowdancer practice, but a group of Sehanine Moonbow-worshipping shadowdancers might exist somewhere. As long as you're not looking for it to be official Lore of FRC or Faerun, you can say there's a Sehanine Moonbow shadowdancer troupe somewhere.
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