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Legacy: Dark Age of Britain!

Started by Ilovedaydreaming, October 04, 2012, 01:41:07 AM

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Ilovedaydreaming

Ok so I really want a little advice for a multiplayer roleplaying game I'm playing. Im playing on a Neverwinter Nights 2 roleplaying persistent world (gosh that's a mouthful). I think some people might know what that is from playing on NWN 1 since Neverwinter Nights 1 used to be super popular.

Anyway the roleplaying server is called Legacy Dark Age of Britain and it's based on the Arthurian legend blended with history and magic and has all the characters like King Arthur, Morgause, Nimue and more. It's a setting which is realistic and full of intrigue and politicking and I think the founders were inspired by Game of Thrones.  I'm only a player there but if you might be interested, click here! However you will need NWN 2 and expansions to play.

I'm currently playing a roguish type of character and I'm in a city with Saxons and Powysians. They're both sides which are my character's enemies. There's a Powysian knight in a large estate called Ser Brandyn the Blue Knight which my character wants to kill and at the front door are two Powysian guards. She has with her two strong warrior friends to help her. However my character and her warrior friends don't know how big the estate is or how many guards are inside. It is a really realistic setting with permadeath so it's very much like real life and if I screw it up, then our characters will most certainly snuff it. :( Although our characters are all level 8 (which is the highest level allowed), they can't take on many soldiers at all (it is very low magic and realistic) so brute strength is certainly not an option.

I think we should wait until night, and then find away to lure the two guards away and sneak in to kill him while he's sleeping/before he has time to put on his armor, but the DM has told us that it's going to be very very difficult to succesfully kill the Blue Knight so I'm a bit worried about how it will turn out inside the rather large estate itself. I think that we might also be able to try and lure him out of the estate but then it will be out in the open with people wandering the streets and more guards about (perhaps less at night).

For those super-smart roguish type players! Have you any advice for my warrior friends and I? :)

Premier

These probably won't work since computer games are always incomparably more limited in freedom than real RPGs, but:

- Bar the doors from the outside, set fire to building, shoot down anyone who tries to climb out through the windows.
- Acquire a bag full of rats carrying the Plague, get the bag inside the house. Note you and the rest of the city might end up as collateral.
- Go to whoever's ruling the city (feudal lord, etc.) and accuse Brandyn of treachery. Plant false evidence and arrange for false witnesses in advance.
- Raise the rabble, smear Brandyn in front of the plebs, let them do the dirty work. False evidence and witnesses stil necessary, but wider range of probable accusations.
- Wait for him to leave, kill him on the streets. Likely gets you in trouble with local authorities. Better version: wait for him to leave the city, kill him on the road. If he's not leaving on his own, deliver a false letter from his lord requesting his immediate presence, or bad news from his estate, or something.
- Enter his service either as retainer or just mercenaries or some sort, gain his trust, blade between the shoulders.
- Find his enemies, cooperate with them.
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