Campaign setting and table rules, as stated in the campaign Discord.
An “alt history” Lost Omens, starting in a smaller township outside Westcrown — a few thousand residents at most.
That is the complete extent of what has been said about the setting. What the alt-history diverges on has not been stated.
Two questions were posed to the table when characters were being built:
How do they relate to Aroden? An avid apostle? Apathy? Background noise they were raised in?
Why would they have found themselves in this township? Passing through on the way to Westcrown? Born and raised? Came here for work?
| Character | Aroden | Township |
|---|---|---|
| Aria Falk | not stated | born there, leaving for the first time |
| Gallus Drusca | follows Cayden Cailean | not stated |
| Haezal | serves the Ancestral Spirits | not stated |
| Hakken | follows Aroden | not stated |
Spheres of Might — declined. The ask was for one multiclass level in Blacksmith, for a character built around sunder. Granted instead, for free: the Destroyer’s Blessing feat and the Smasher rage power.
The stated principle when declining was reluctance to adopt an entire game system sight-unseen, rather than any objection to the specific option.
Note the ask named “Spheres of Power”, but Blacksmith is from Spheres of Might — a separate book. Power replaces Vancian casting; Might does the same for martial combat.
Why the substitution works: everything the dip was being taken for already exists in first-party material.
| Blacksmith 1 gives | Paizo equivalent |
|---|---|
| Thunderous Blows: +1d6 vs objects, no AoO on sunder | Improved Sunder (no AoO, +2 to the check) — folded into Powerful Maneuvers under EitR |
| — | Smasher: ignore an object’s hardness entirely, 1/rage — granted |
| — | Destroyer’s Blessing: regain 1 round of rage on a successful sunder, heal 1 hp if it breaks — granted |
| — | Spell Sunder: sunder ongoing spell effects |
| d10, full BAB, Fort +2 and Will +2 | not replicated — this is the part a dip is really for |
Destroyer’s Blessing requires half-orc or orc plus a rage class feature. Hakken is a half-orc with a barbarian level, so he qualifies on both without spending anything and the grant costs nothing in prerequisites.
Hardness is the reason sunder builds normally fail — damage minus 10 for adamantine accomplishes nothing. Smasher removes that, which is what makes the concept function at all.
Psionics — raised once and withdrawn before it was ruled on.
A subtype of the Advanced Race Guide aquatic elf, on the standard elf chassis. Built for Coral; anyone may take it.
The 3.5 Unearthed Arcana “spontaneous divine caster” variant, as the oracle is to the cleric. Coral runs on it.