>>Do you need ranks in escaping to JOIN this sect, and is it a requirement to advance.

You should not need ranks to join, nor to gain cantrips (though I suppose I can't be 100% sure about that, as I haven't gotten any).

The only thing you should need escaping for is the sect-based titles.


-- Player of Eyuve

escaping is not a part of it. It's circle based (only I believe. Does anyone think there are more reqs?), at circle 17 or maybe 15 you should be able to join any sect you want.

>I haven't really decided what it'll become in Skills 3.0 -- though I'm glad it gives me an excuse to change that particular req since I've been unhappy with it for awhile.

You've been unhappy about it? <g>

-Coralin

You could reconsider Appraisal as a Monk requirement too if you feel like it. That's never made sense to me.

for Fortune: switching out escaping for Mechanical lore due to the (card playing, gambling gobble-de-goo) makes sense, or dare i say stealing as a requirement. Although i do hate the thought of trying to train up stealing very very much.

Thievery would be viable IF it's also a recognized skill for circling.

-Coralin

As a member of Fortune's Path, I like the idea of stealing being a pre-requisite for titles even though I don't have many ranks in stealing.

>>I mean, it would make sense that it would.

I don't know if it would be as certain as that. While a Cleric can "oops" their way into making a zombie, the way a Cleric and Necromancer does it seem to be rather different.

its reduced RT for the rezz itself <both the cleric and the rezee are prone once the cleric does the gesture. the dance you do reduces the RT that they are lying there.



Preces meae non sunt dignae;Sed tu bonus fac benigne;Ne perenni cremer igne [Dies Irae]

Okay, between the change of thread title and the extreme thread necromancy it took me awhile to figure out what we were discussing.

The reason I'm uncomfortable making thievery the skill driving Fortune's Path is simple: Not all Fortune's Path members are gypsies, and not all gypsies are thieves. I feel like if Thievery was the skill I selected I would be needlessly restricting the RP of members of the sect.

Even Lomtaun (One of the highest profile members) states this explicitly:

>ask lom about sect
Lomtaun gazes into the mosaic whirlpool as he speaks. "While I am no gypsy, I do allow Fate to lead me where it may. For this reason, I associate most closely with the ways of the Fortune's Path sect. There are several boats moored here at the island, piloted by those who can tell you more."

-Raesh

"Ever notice that B.A.'s flavor text swells in direct proportion to how much one of our characters is getting screwed?" - Brian Van Hoose

I'd kinda be sad about thievery. I trained up stealing for a while for fun, but it just wasn't worth it to me. Also, my gypsy isn't all that stealthy to begin with.

I think last time this conversation came up, Performance was mentioned? However, that might be similar to the escaping idea since it'd hinge on an expansion of that system that is coming down the pipes 'soon'.

I feel like Astrology + Tactics or Evasion could fit into the theme of gypsies having "a tendency to be where Fate wants them and not where Fate does not."

Also, aren't there some sects with title based on attributes instead of skills? Charisma fits in my mind with the idea of gypsies, and Reflex would fit the above them.