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#1 ZSpark85 May 12, 2015 20:50:10	Hello, I will be running HotQ for the first time this weekend.  One of my players is going with the Hermit Background which has the discovery feature... this allows him some knowledge/discovery/item or something that will have some assistance or effect with the overall campaign story.   I was thinking something with one of the Dragonmask maybe?  maybe he knows the location of one, knows someone is looking for them, or found one himself.  What do you guys think? Any other ideas or maybe something one of your players used in the campaign?   Thanks for any thoughts you have!
#2 pukunui May 12, 2015 21:19:31	Thanks for posting this! You've just reminded me that I'm in the same boat! I need to work out something for the PC in my campaign that has the hermit background.
#3 transcendantviewer May 12, 2015 23:19:03	There's an encounter where a stag with golden horns will award a player with a +1 Longbow. You should grant this player insight into this event. If they're a Druid, Wizard, or even Warlock, it's flavorful. Magic items make quite a stink in this edition, so letting them have something like a heads up to it is just awesome.
#4 Glimjack May 12, 2015 23:56:58	transcendantviewer wrote:
#5 pukunui May 13, 2015 0:04:41	Hey, that's a great idea. The hermit PC in my campaign is a druid. I'll come up with something to do with the golden stag too. Thanks!
#6 transcendantviewer May 13, 2015 2:43:27	I'm happy I was able to help. Good luck.
#7 BRJN May 15, 2015 18:44:00	- Golden Stag:  I like this idea and will steal it if ever I get the chance. - You have sighted the Ep8 flying castle. - Give the player a multi-page handout composed of xeroxes of 3e material about the histories of the Cult of the Dragon and the Church of Tiamat. - The Ep6 swamp castle has an astronomical observatory attached.  You know (some of) its history and capabilities.
#8 transcendantviewer May 16, 2015 0:17:40	You know, I played a Barbarian that was very interested in magic and the arts, I wanted to have him steal that magical telescope in the castle, but it was Adventurer's League, so I couldn't, even if my character could physically tear the thing out of the floor.
#9 pukunui May 16, 2015 3:09:48	Question: Once the hermit PC's discovery has been resolved, what then? Do they no longer have a background feature, or should they get a new discovery once the first one is no longer applicable?
#10 BenignFacist May 16, 2015 16:45:58	In our current campaign we have a character with the Hermit background.   Their discovery relates to the origin of the 'humanity', which is comprised of elves, halflings, gnomes, dwarves and orcs - refluffed and flavoured so that each represents a 'human-variant'. The discovery is so mind-blowing that he's questing to disprove/prove it - the rammifications are simply that great. The specifics haven't been hashed out and really, they don't need to be at this stage (or for a very long time). The character certainly won't be shareing until they are 100% sure - for their own safety. With regards to in-game mechanics, we grant him advantage on any Investigation checks, if the character is digging up lost lore, legends and secrets.
#11 BRJN May 18, 2015 18:55:08	I just took over as DM in Ep8.  I used the Vampire to give a historical exposition on the Cult of the Dragon.  (Because the group did not understand what the Cult was all about.)  One statement that I made off-the-cuff, sounds better the longer I think of it:   "Severin is making the Cult like his goddess Tiamat: now it has 5 heads.  It is not fully like the goddess Tiamat, though: while her 5 heads are all of 1 mind, the Cult's 5 heads each has a mind of its own."   Why mention this here?  Because your Hermit's new mid-campaign Discovery could be the existence of infighting between the Cult leaders.
#12 pukunui May 19, 2015 2:52:27	BRJN wrote:
#13 BRJN May 19, 2015 14:54:21	pukunui wrote:
#14 pukunui May 19, 2015 15:47:13	I like the sound of that too! You always have the best ideas, BRJN!
(Reply to #8) CCS	transcendantviewer wrote: