Quote from: Blackhand;608082Gold is pretty slim in my current game.  It's compounded by the fact that I'm enforcing training in AD&D 1e:  that is, 1,500gp x Current Level x Weeks of Training.

After five weeks of grueling through the adventure around Hommlett...no one player in the party has enough to advance to 2nd level.

It's becoming an issue.  The group is mostly CN, though there are a few CG individuals.

Temple of Elemental Evil campaign?


Are the CN characters really CN, or are they CE and in denial?

They are motivated mostly by greed, but they hold themselves up as "good guys" doing things "fairly"...even though it's not fair and sometimes fights get started when they could be avoided.  CN is supposed to be the "wild card" alignment, and they generally use it to justify any sort of action, good or bad, depending on how they feel at the moment.

I think it's spot on for the alignment, even if tensions climb in situations.  It's rare for a player to go "NO I'm not doing that my alignment says NO".  Instead I get thoughtful articulations on why it's rationalized by the alignment in the moment.

Hell, they got along well with CE Zert, until they left him alone, at the entrance of the dungeon with all the goods and no backup.  Then they went looking for him, but he's absconded.  They'll probably meet him in Nulb, but there's only 1 member of that party still alive to remember his treachery.

And they are using Hommlett as the village it's meant to be, not slaughtering peasants for their trinkets.

The funny thing is that this kid is playing a Cleric now, and he's running him just like he did his Thief beforehand; and I can't get it through his head that there's something a lot more badass about playing a religious zealot with a violence fetish (something totally viable in the Albion setting, where there's fuck all to say that Clerics must be nice guy, just fanatical about enforcing the tenets of Law), than a pissant sneak who skulks around stabbing people and then loots bodies.

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