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Post by GRWelsh on Nov 24, 2017 10:15:47 GMT -5
Scott, assuming a single monk tradition encompassing all alignments, how would you handle it if you had a monk PC (LG or LN) of a level sufficient to challenge the Master of Autumn? Would he be able to just walk up to Kro Terlep and say, "I'm here to challenge the Master of Autumn"? Would the Scarlet Brotherhood honor the tradition, rather than kill the intruders? Honor the tradition, and kill the intruders afterwards? What if the PC beats the Master of Autumn who then loses face as the "Father of Obedience" among the Scarlet Brotherhood? Would it go something like this:
"You're just going to let some nobody from nowhere fight you in single combat?" Elder Cousin the Master Thief asked incredulously. "Allow me to kill him, Father -- I'll do it quick," Foster Uncle the Master Assassin offered, hand on his dagger. "No," the Father of Obedience held up a warding hand. "They are not to be harmed, as they are here under the Ancient Tradition, which even I must obey. The Rite of Challenge will be held as it always had been, since the dawn of time."
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Post by geneweigel on Nov 24, 2017 11:00:47 GMT -5
Watch EXECUTIONERS OF DEATH (1977), a kung fu movie by the the Shaw Brothers, for some ideas on how this would go down. The hero at the end wants to fight one guy at the end and he has to deal with everyone there.
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Post by GRWelsh on Nov 24, 2017 11:04:39 GMT -5
Looking again at the titles given for the Scarlet Brotherhood in the WoG Guide reinforces my impression of them as a cult in the modern pseudo-family sense. Perhaps their organization also has an abduction theme where they take young Suloise children and brainwash and raise them in the cult-family, a la the Manson Family or the Koresh Compound.
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Post by Scott on Nov 24, 2017 12:43:42 GMT -5
All monks are bound by the laws of the class. Cheating would be the same as losing, or failing to track down the existing monk when you are the challenger. Getting to the monastery might be a challenge. Other branches of the SB may try to stop the challenger, but if the monk takes part he forfeits.
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Post by GT on Dec 14, 2017 2:52:24 GMT -5
I still treat my monks in Oerik like the Bloodguard from The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Donaldson. And, I still have more than one Grandmaster... for example, there is a Grandmaster of Rao and there is a Grandmaster of the Shanlin sect of Zhu-ti across the "Agitoric Ocean". Maybe if those two ever actually met they would fight; or maybe they would compare notes on those monks below them.
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