Nice work; the setting in particular is cool! Is it free for open use by whomever wishes too?
About the creatures inside; personally I agree with Sanct that the Barony Vampires and Wraiths are tad too strong skill wise, although the abilities seem fairly done - and fitting with the concepts. Although I'd probably mix in a few Barony Vamps that don't have necromancy etc, and are more akin to baseline BCVs. Although then I guess they'd just be Vamps, not Barony ones.
The Baroness strikes me as unnecessarily powerful, but then I admittedly operate on a lower power scale. My standard submerged Wizard would be 5-7 shifts standard spells, not the 8-10 you've listed somewhere. Each table to their own.
That said, she needs to be powerful to enforce such rulings upon the supernatural beings, so I'd personally just make her plot device in a similar way to the Denarians etc, and have challenge levels etc as opposed to stats. Seems to offer more freedom that way, then rigid power set ups.
Thank you for sharing Belial, the only 'problems' I have with it are down to personal taste, thus not really problems at all.
If you're setting this in the timeline after changes and still want to use the Red Court in my campaign I found a way around their complete extermination.
I simply had the spell go down with its intended target. Thus solving their extermination, removing certain important characters, and creating several interesting things to think about:
- The Council would have lost the Grey Council, which weakens it; and removes most of the opposition the Black Council would face.
- The Blackstaff is now up for grabs somewhere. I figured it would have been hidden in Ebenezer's last moments.
- The Red Court would be minus a lot of its nobility, Lords of Night etc, slaughtered in the fight and eventual death curses.
- All Three Swords of the Cross are now out of use. I've yet to fully work out how to prevent their destruction. Perhaps Lea took them.
- Winter is again, without a Knight.
- With Maggie's bloodline curse ended, the White King is now once again able to feed. This gives the potential for him to begin resisting his current domination by Lara.
And more, but that's enough to get the ideas rolling for now.
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Setting is free to use - that's why I wrote stuff up and then posted it rather than keep it in my notes/memory.
Thank you, I thought it polite to ask.
Barony vampires ...(snip)
I see. That would make sense. I think my main problem proved to be a lack of perspective on my part. 100 (possible) Knights isn't really a large number in the grand scheme of things, and you even mentioned them being few in number. My bad, with that in mind, and you're additional comments, the stats definitely seem more reasonable.
The Baroness ...(snip)
That does highlight a few things about the system, and does put into light why you had to make her so refresh high; I hadn't really thought of it like that. Your stats certainly seem to match what you wanted to, and hopefully quelled your urges (for now, until you decide to make a few more awesome characters) to stat things.
I still think I'd personally prefer her as a plot device set-up. As your creation, would you mind giving myself (and anyone else interested) an idea of what sort of plot device challenge levels she'd represent, as you see her, in each of her key areas (physical, mental, social, magical, anything else you can think of)?
Cheers for the feedback, it's been very helpful.
Black Court Ancients seem to have been intended as Nicodemus/Red King-level Big Bads.
Perhaps*. They're described as the most intelligent of the Black Court, having survived so long; which makes them dangerous - but that doesn't necessitate power. I'd probably place them nearly as powerful as the Red King, if in a somewhat different manner (as to me, much of his power came from the Faith of his worshippers
*I guess it depends on what you'd classify as Ancient. To me Mavra doesn't seem in that league yet, but was still a respectable being in her own right.