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Help playing my character sought (3.5 Cleric of Pelor)
My regular group has a weekly game of D&D 3.5, I'm going to refer to our main campaign as "Sangex vs Clercia" as it is a highly political game where a recent war between these two nations is prominent and is threatening to ignite again. In this campaign, I play Alfred of Quist, a Fighter 2/Cleric of Pelor 4 with the Healing and Sun domains. I also portray Derum of Rodney, a Paladin of Pelor 4 - though he's thinking of changing his name to Derek of Firefort as his original name is Clerican and we have sided with Sangex and everyone calls him Del anyway. Becasue there are only four of us in the group including the DM we often play two characters each.
On to the reason I started our thread - the party leader, a Rouge/Bard who holds titles to the lands where the party is building a city (called Firefort), has expressed some deeply troubling signs that she is either an agnostic or worse a Hextorite - I say worse as one of the other players has a Paladin of Heironious (although he also took levels of rouge for the character). We (myself and the player of the other Paladin) have been considering the possibility of getting her excommunicated - but have not approached the DM about this yet, and personally I think a final warning is in order. An option we've been considering is charging the leader character for spellcasting but giving it to the rest of the party - even healing spells which I'd normally provide free to those requiring them.
I also have recently acquired a Ward of the Chruch for the physical church I'm building in Firefort. We're on our way to Spellet, where our respective lieges are located (hers an Earl, mine a Bishop). Once I've dealt with the paperwork, what would you expect me to do about this as I intend to raise the child?
I'd also like more general advice on running at least Alfred - and if you have any suitable ideas Derum/Derek
On to the reason I started our thread - the party leader, a Rouge/Bard who holds titles to the lands where the party is building a city (called Firefort), has expressed some deeply troubling signs that she is either an agnostic or worse a Hextorite - I say worse as one of the other players has a Paladin of Heironious (although he also took levels of rouge for the character). We (myself and the player of the other Paladin) have been considering the possibility of getting her excommunicated - but have not approached the DM about this yet, and personally I think a final warning is in order. An option we've been considering is charging the leader character for spellcasting but giving it to the rest of the party - even healing spells which I'd normally provide free to those requiring them.
I also have recently acquired a Ward of the Chruch for the physical church I'm building in Firefort. We're on our way to Spellet, where our respective lieges are located (hers an Earl, mine a Bishop). Once I've dealt with the paperwork, what would you expect me to do about this as I intend to raise the child?
I'd also like more general advice on running at least Alfred - and if you have any suitable ideas Derum/Derek
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Lastly, about your Ward of the Church, if it will be your sole responsibility to raise this child, it shouldn't be very hard, ensure they receive a church sanctioned education, have three meals and a shelter provided for them, and most importantly, make them feel like they are cared for and worthwhile. If you just shove them off on everyone in the church, they will begin to feel alienated and unwanted, two feelings which don't breed happiness.
If you are looking for a simple solution to this complicated problem, I'd look into using your Ward of the Church as an excuse for Alfred to stop associating with the party - Alfred is probably getting a bit miserable, and there is more to raising a child than dropping him/her with a nanny to do all the actual raising. If you guys need another cleric, figure out a way to cycle in somebody who will have less of a problem living with the bard-rogue - whether because it's a cleric of a more neutral god/dess or simply an individual who is less concerned about "who's yo' deity" (credit Tatsuya Ishida).
A pally might be able to justify being more aggressive about "so are you a devil-worshiper or just a heretic?", so if you are actively jonesing to have that in-game confrontation, I'd use Derek. No advice on him other than that.
Still...it's completely up to you, right? If you think your character wouldn't be able to get over another's beliefs or actions, then so be it...play him that way. I, too, think that the raising of the child would give your character a perfect "out" if you want it...adventuring is no place for a small child, and maybe it's time for him to settle down and do some rearing for a bit without the distractions of those he sees as heretics, as well.
However I don't think it helps that at one point the related out of character chatter turned to attacks on the DM's religion - so I think an apology is in order from me to him for my part in that.