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Title: NPCs for the Academy.
Post by: Headless on June 04, 2017, 11:19:01 AM
I am playing an Amber clone next week.  Just a one off to get my players used to the system. It's a throne war I guess.  The Chair of the Academy is dead and they have to elect a new Chair.  Only problem is now I need a bunch of faculty the players can try to influence for votes.  If anyone wants to pitch a charcter concept that would help.  
Just a sketch is all I need.  The Academy is like if the Jedi council from lord of the rings was crossed with the Council of the Wize from Lord of the Rings, and Vader and Sauron were members.  Or if you must Hogwarts Academy but teaching University and Voldamort and Helena Bonem Carter were both members and sometimes Indiana Jones and John Carter would Barsoom down from Mars to teach a semester or two.

Name.
Subject?
Personality.
Colors and style.
Opinion on un-registered practitioners in the hundered worlds?
Faction?
Devine Sponsor ship?  

Any of this or more is great help.  Honestly just a name comes in handy.  I'm shit with names.

Thanks
Title: NPCs for the Academy.
Post by: RPGPundit on June 06, 2017, 02:58:08 AM
Maybe you could borrow some of the deities from Lords of Olympus?
Title: NPCs for the Academy.
Post by: Headless on June 06, 2017, 09:59:30 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;966608Maybe you could borrow some of the deities from Lords of Olympus?

I will.  But I want to save them for expanding Plot.  I had Zeus in the setting before I got your book and Athena and others, they just aren't in the story.  (Unless PCs have different Ideas)

Really really impressed with that section of your book by the way.
Title: NPCs for the Academy.
Post by: RPGPundit on June 07, 2017, 10:59:01 PM
Quote from: Headless;966696I will.  But I want to save them for expanding Plot.  I had Zeus in the setting before I got your book and Athena and others, they just aren't in the story.  (Unless PCs have different Ideas)

Really really impressed with that section of your book by the way.

Thank you very much.  Anyways, what I was really thinking is that you could use some of the lesser-known minor deities in that section, the ones that only really clever players will even have heard of.