Dushkun Discussion Thread

[Wensleydale]

Unless I'm missing something, there's something very wrong with the classes.

How do you justify the Stalwart, a class with the attack bonus, fortitude save, and bonus feats of a fighter, which also has a d12 HD and access to the Defensive Stance and Mobile Defense abilities? Sure, their skill list is different, but that's hardly a fair tradeoff when it comes to balance. Is Dushkun more high-powered than normal?

How do I justify it?

Because the fighter is crap crap crappity crap. However, it should have D12 HD...

[Hibou]

Well, I hope you decide to beef up the other classes. At this point they seem a little weak in comparison (not including the Becomer, who I don't see enough information for to suggest anything).

[Wensleydale]

Well, you've got the adept, who can (in essentia) grab an enemy and use his fighting skills for her. Then you've got the elementalist, who could just stand back from the stalwart and hit him with a couple of ranged touch attacks.

[CYMRO]

Most are connected to the Underwater, the huge underground waterway that still connects East and West Aum as well as Varishbar, running all the way to what were once the three great cities of Aum and are now the three capitals of its old area.

Does this waterway have an airspace?  
Seems a good idea to expand upon.

[Wensleydale]

Most are connected to the Underwater, the huge underground waterway that still connects East and West Aum as well as Varishbar, running all the way to what were once the three great cities of Aum and are now the three capitals of its old area.

Does this waterway have an airspace?  
Seems a good idea to expand upon.

What exactly do you mean by airspace?

The underway, as would have been detailed in the now-lost work which I did yesterday, is essentially a triangle of three canals connecting the capital cities of the Great Aumish Covenant (Western Aum, Eastern Aum, and Northern Thane, now Varishbar).

[CYMRO]

I mean is it like the legendary sewers of Paris with the water passing through with a ceiling overhead, or is a completely water-filled(aquan environment) tunnel?

How does traffic pass on this underway?

[Wensleydale]

Ah, I thought that was what you meant.

It is, essentially, a huge underwater canal - indeed, more than one canal, as it once connected the five greatest cities in Aum, those which are now the capitals of Eastern and Western Aum, Varishbar, Sparda and Draal. It has an airspace, and at regular intervals holes have now been carved to allow the passage of steam, smoke etc from boats outward.

Traffic is (of course) mostly steamboats, magically-powered boats and horse/slave-drawn boats (for which there are pavements on either side of the canal).

[CYMRO]

In essentia, the Covenant follows a loosely set code of laws common to all three nations.

How autonomous are the individual nations?
How much power do the Elders have in relation to the leaders of the individual nations?
And do the elders share control of the Covenant army?

[Wensleydale]

In essentia, the Covenant follows a loosely set code of laws common to all three nations.

How autonomous are the individual nations?
How much power do the Elders have in relation to the leaders of the individual nations?
And do the elders share control of the Covenant army?

Fairly autonomous, but certainly not independent - think in terms of, say, scotland within the UK, but with more power over home affairs.

The Elders can directly order the individual rulers, but they do this infrequently. Over Home Affairs, the Elders have very little power unless it affects the Covenant as a whole.

Yes. The elders should be thought of as a council, as a whole, and they control the entire army.