You are running a Faerun game
>b-but HYTNPDND
The mechanics are GURPs or WoD or Warhammer or CoD or FATE or whatever you prefer
Would you allow your player to play a Bhaalspawn?
You are running a Faerun game. >b-but HYTNPDND
You are running a Faerun game
>b-but HYTNPDND
The mechanics are GURPs or WoD or Warhammer or CoD or FATE or whatever you prefer
Would you allow your player to play a Bhaalspawn?
>Would you allow your player to play a Bhaalspawn?
Sure, if he wants to. And I would have him hunted by other Bhaalspawns.
If I'm not playing D&D, I'm probably running something else entirely... or Darksun. Always liked Darksun.
That said, I got no problems with the concept of a Bhaalspawn if I'm playing fantasy. Other players might be offered destinies of same-ish grandeur.
Sure, why not.
Ask your own table, gayspawn.
>God #3452 foresaw his death
>Mass produced knockoff demigods
>They're intentionally flawed, don't really get any benefits from being demigods, but the vast majority will inevitably go mad from the traces of divine power in their brains and get executed for being psychos
>Simply by living according to their inborn instincts they strengthen the divine spark just a tad
>When they inevitably die their spark goes back to their father's throne
>He reforms himself from the tens of thousands of sparks
>The party should probably do something to throw a wrench in his plans, especially if one or more party members happen to be Spawns
This idea works in most systems or settings tbh
No I'm not.
>You are running a Faerun game
Clearly I'm being paid quite handsomely for this travesty, so the players can play whatever they want.
I would allow a player to play a weird spawn of an evil god that has constant visions of murder and has to roll often to not kill people he loves. Yes.
Double points if they actually want to play a good character.
how do you prevent him from trying to murder the other players?
What if the other players don't want to engage in shitty pvp?
What justification can you give for the characters not just murdering the Bhaalspawn the first time it tries something psycho?
Why should I worry about the players finding a justification. If we take the Dark Urge approach the character has no clue as to what their true nature is and they don't even know why they want to kill. So start with easy checks whenever they have such thoughts. Then suddenly force the party to split in just the smallest way, lock the Dark Urge behind doors or something and them describe the crazy thoughts that they have and see how the player reacts. If they follow their imagination, they'll find themselves in a room where whoever was with them was brutally murdered and then... the party will enter the room.
Then it's up to the party to react and argue about it.
yeah sure we are playing scion
so titan spawn of bhaal it is
It sounds like a free card to act like an edgelord for no reason.
>You are running a Faerun game
No I'm fricking not. I'll run 5E, but I'm not running or playing fricking gayrun.
>would you allow a player to be the main character
no
In your typical game, PCs can be nobles, descendants of angels, demons or powerful elementals. Being descendand of actual god is just a step up from this, and it's not like Bhaalspawns are some super secret or super-rare club. Other PCs can easily end up being far more imporant for overall story.
But you obvisouly should consider your players.
>descendants of angels, demons or powerful elementals.
Maybe in your "typical" game.
>GURPs or CoD or FATE
Yes because the balance of said game would be so well adjusted that it would dry out any flavor or theme of actually being Bhaalspawn
>You are running a Faerun game
I'm probably doing a really bad job because someone has clearly abducted my wife and child and are holding them at gunpoint if I'm running anything in this dogshit setting that is more about aliens and magic schoolbusses than medieval fantasy.
>Would you allow your player to play Bhaalspawn?
If those are the terms that the guy with the hostages set I guess I don't have a choice. Hope you like awful games full of terrible "tormented" edgelord characters, everyone.
Why would you use a DnD setting? Not just in context of DnD, but at all. Like it's the most generic shit out there, so literally why bother, if you can just shit out something of similar quality while on the run.
Whhhhyyy not?
Because it's shit, and not even YOUR shit. If you want some kitchen sink fantasy slop, might as well build it yourself, can even rope in your friends for more fun, like I did.
The rulebook spells it "Tiefling" so just put that in brackets on your character sheet and you should be good.
Depends on the player, honestly. If it's someone who really values roleplay and can handle the concept without dragging the party into murder hobo bullshit, I can see myself allowing it.
No
>You are running a Faerun game
I am not and I would sooner get shot in the head than do so.
>b-but HYTNPDND
Even when I run the hacked to shit 5e I use, I refuse to use official settings because they all suck ass. Yes, even your precious edgelord garbage that is dark sun.
>The mechanics are GURPs or WoD or Warhammer or CoD or FATE or whatever you prefer
I told you, I refuse.
>Would you allow your player to play a Bhaalspawn?
I don't even fricking know what that is, and since as I've said I refuse to run official dogshit settings for any TTRPG, I don't care. No, your options are in the primer, if you want to play anything else go frick yourself.
>Would you allow your player to play a Bhaalspawn?
Only if it was post time of troubles pre throne of bhaal ending
If I know and trust the player, sure!
Random gays off of roll20? Not in a million years.
Remember that Fate is not a drop-in substitution for the other games you mentioned and requires completely a different playstyle and approach, both from players and the GM.
You can play anything in Fate, but the game will never be about cool mechanical character powers or items. The game is about scenes (as in movies or TV shows) and the things or tough choices a character ends up doing therein. If you've fried your brain on video games and D&D, you will not be able to enjoy Fate.
Yeah we already know it's shit, that was never the point of the OP though.
Yes but he has to succeed a will check 🙂
There is no mechanical change for Bhaalspawn, so why not.
If you are going for the constant urge to kill things, like in BG3, that's not how all of the Bhaalspawn worked. Many just went on to lead very ordinary lives.
The Dark Urge in BG3 isn't even a true Bhaalspawn. They have no parents, and were created by Bhaal directly with his own blood. Basically, their a clone of Bhaal Still had no mechanical change for just being the child/clone of Bhaal. They got power bumps given as gifts after the fact, but those could have been given out to anyone serving him, like Sarovok's granddaughter Orin, who was 4x removed from the blood of Bhaal.
>Sarovok's granddaughter Orin, who was 4x removed from the blood of Bhaal.
Wellllllll.
>Orin
>granddaughter
Yeah, uh. Not just that.
yeah
My bhaals ‘pawn your face
We're all the spawn of someone's Bhaals...