Has anyone knocked up a party adventurers contract ie for the players in the adventuring party to sign? If you have can you post it?
My cleric made a contract that charges his teamates for each heal.
so, the wizard charges for each spell cast, and the rogue for each target killed?
contributing to party success with your abilities is nothing more than your duty.
it's dumb to pay for it.
- 10% of all loot goes into a party pot for raise deads
- Dont slaughter the innocents (unless you really really have to)
- Dont rob from your fellow adventurers
- Gold shall be shared equally
- Magic items shall be allocated based upon value
etc
so, the wizard charges for each spell cast, and the rogue for each target killed?
contributing to party success with your abilities is nothing more than your duty.
it's dumb to pay for it.
I was kidding
I was kidding
aw, ok, then... :D
Was thinking more along the lines of:
- 10% of all loot goes into a party pot for raise deads
- Dont slaughter the innocents (unless you really really have to)
- Dont rob from your fellow adventurers
- Gold shall be shared equally
- Magic items shall be allocated based upon value
etc
These seem nice guidelines, but are things that have to be decided by the players, or actually by their characters.
Then their characters can sign a "contract" between themselves, although enforce it is still up to the characters.
As a DM, i could never say to a player "you signed the contract, you MUST give 10% for the pot"... players do and are supposed to do what they want.
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In the group i DM, players divide treasure/expenses like this:
Gold - share equally
Magic Items - goes to the character that can use it. If more characters can use it, they roll a d20, highest roll wins (in game, they have a chance-game, they flip a coin, or draw the longest straw kind of thing)
Raise Dead - usually the dead guy pays for his resurrection, but fellow players always offer to contribute
Other Rituals - party shares expenses.
In the group i DM, players divide treasure/expenses like this:
Gold - share equally
Magic Items - goes to the character that can use it. If more characters can use it, they roll a d20, highest roll wins (in game, they have a chance-game, they flip a coin, or draw the longest straw kind of thing)
Raise Dead - usually the dead guy pays for his resurrection, but fellow players always offer to contribute
Other Rituals - party shares expenses.
This is pretty much how my group does it, except that when more than one person can use a magic item, they haggle it out. Someone usually gives up the item in exchange for the next goodie they find. If someone picked something they found out later wasn't what they expected, in-party trading crops up.
D.
In my group, an adventurer's contract would quickly become TP or
Agreed... it would become an out-of-game plot reason to role play situations a certain way... a meta-gamey "hey i was just playing my alignment, and your character doesnt know i am double dipping/embezzling"...
fun? probably, annoying? possibly...
When I DM I make sure to include some amount of reagents or raw residuum every now and again in place of coins to make sure the ritual casters have some without having to start passing around the hat. It goes straight to them and they are the ones who use it, so they get entirely reimbursed by the party in advance.
I. Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity (not an uncommon thing among them) makes it necessary, for the good of all, to vote a retrenchment.
II. Every man to be called fairly in turn, by list, on board of prizes because, (over and above their proper share) they were on these occasions allowed a shift of clothes: but if they defrauded the company to the value of a dollar in plate, jewels, or money, marooning was their punishment. If the robbery was only betwixt one another, they contented themselves with slitting the ears and nose of him that was guilty, and set him on shore, not in an uninhabited place, but somewhere, where he was sure to encounter hardships.
III. No person to game at cards or dice for money.
IV. The lights and candles to be put out at eight o'clock at night: if any of the crew, after that hour still remained inclined for drinking, they were to do it on the open deck
V. To keep their piece, pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service.
VI. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man were to be found seducing any of the latter sex, and carried her to sea, disguised, he was to suffer death;(so that when any fell into their hands, as it chanced in the Onslow, they put a sentinel immediately over her to prevent ill consequences from so dangerous an instrument of division and quarrel; but then here lies the roguery; they contend who shall be sentinel, which happens generally to one of the greatest bullies, who, to secure the lady's virtue, will let none lie with her but himself.)
VII. To desert the ship or their quarters in battle, was punished with death or marooning.
VIII. No striking one another on board, but every man's quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol. (The quarter-master of the ship, when the parties will not come to any reconciliation, accompanies them on shore with what assistance he thinks proper, and turns the disputant back to back, at so many paces distance; at the word of command, they turn and fire immediately, (or else the piece is knocked out of their hands). If both miss, they come to their cutlasses, and then he is declared the victor who draws the first blood.)
IX. No man to talk of breaking up their way of living, till each had shared one thousand pounds. If in order to this, any man should lose a limb, or become a cripple in their service, he was to have eight hundred dollars, out of the public stock, and for lesser hurts, proportionately.
X. The captain and quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.
XI. The musicians to have rest on the Sabbath Day, but the other six days and nights, none without special favour.
My cleric made a contract that charges his teamates for each heal.
This, I like! I have a player in my group that refuses to upgrade his defences and an so damn tired of having to be his HP battery that I refuse to play a Cleric. I'm gonna give this idea a shot though.
Hmm... Cleric of Cas. Need to find a good PrC now...
We, the Business of Heroes, heretoafter referred to as the Business, do solemnly swear to:
I. Travel and not settle in one area.
Ia. Big Boss, as CEO, is exempt from this law. (3rd month, ebbing moon)
II. Take the moral high road in each situation.
IIa. Kale Arcane asks for an amendment and is voted down. (2nd month, full moon)
IIb. Kale Arcane asks for an amendment and is voted down. (3rd month, ebbing moon)
IIc. Kale Arcane asks for an amendment and is voted down. (3rd month, gibbous moon)
III. Not actively pursue the downfall of each other.
IIIa. Kale Arcane asks for a rewriting and is voted down. (2nd month, full moon)
IV. Keep the secrets of the group within the group alone.
In the event of a tied decision, a voted upon member ___Blue___ will decide the course of action (to be decided upon democratically, along with the treasurer, holder of the group coffers: Adventuring Treasurer: ___Khorin_Redmaine___; Business CEO/Treasurer: ___Big_Boss___)
Addition or the forced resignation of a member of the Business is decided by absolute majority, currently ___5___. Amending the contract requires unanimous decision.
Amendment 1: We allow Big Boss to come into the Business in an advisory and CEO practice, and all his holdings and assets are now run by Big Boss separately and as part of the Business.
Amendment 2: Breaking any of the four stated rules willingly and/or maliciously results in the immediate removal of the offender from the Business without the need to unanimous vote.
"Hey fellow adventurer we just met an five minutes ago. Since we trust you implicitly with our lives already, how about we also split all of our treasure with you with out so much as a handshake? While we're at it, you just carry it all too. We trust you."