I have two questions:
First, what person (first from buttercups' point of view, first from the posters point of view, whatever) is this meant to be written in?
Second, is this supposed to be on Shartak, or what? Or can we just use whatever world-rules we want as long as it fits with previous stories?
1. Third person, actually, I just couldn't think of a name for my character so I used first person. I'll edit my post to third person once I've thought of a name.
2. Wherever you imagine it to be. I haven't chosen any specific location. So, yeah use whatever world-rules you want as long as it continues the story.
More specifically, I want to know- can my Mystic Theurge sneak up on them and cast fireball into the middle of the campsite? No, actually, scrap that- can my Mind Flayer sneak up on them, use Mind Blast, then try to eat someones' brain? (if it didn't involve killing them)
A fireball in the middle of the campsite sounds fine, it moves the plot along/makes things interesting.
If someone creates a/some NPCs (IE "In the distance a herd of goats appears.", etc.) you can do whatever you want with/to them. If it's the player's character... hrm... Nothing too awful, I'd think. I don't really know what a Mind Blast does. I'm
guessing it's something another player wouldn't want done to their character...
One possibility is to could set things up so that they can choose whether to be a victim of your attack. For example, let's say I call my character Fred, you might write something like, "The lone Mind Flayer sneaks up, readying his Mind Blast which would leave it's victim (in whatever state a Mind Blast leaves its victim in), and drooling over the brains of Fred he so desperately wishes to consume." Then, if I didn't mind, I might write, "Fred appears to not have noticed the presence of the Mind Flayer, and the blast hits dead on, leaving him exposed and vulnerable to attack." or, if I did mind, I might say that the attack utterly failed for whatever reason.
well I'm worried about.....playing my character basically. As in, an anthropomorphic caterpillar shaman
That's fine. I don't mind if things get weird.
