The Schism: A 13th Age RP Campaign

But I don't want to be able to offer leverage in any way, shape, or form to help Karth when he gets his comeuppance for going after Solared.

Here's how I see it.

I could die.

Or I could die in style.

Looking forward to crashing my own wedding.

Oh cool, I just stumbled across the perfect picture for the Black.

I was going to show it to you anyway.

Gimme a sec and I'll PM you.

But he's senile and was a miner for how long? And he was a dragon hunter. I'm 99% sure if he had encountered the Black back then, he wouldn't be part of the campaign right now. Convince me why Speed would recognize the Black, and I'll PM you what she looks like. I didn't PM GX the picture because Seren has relationship points with the Three, but because the Black is part of Seren's backstory and Seren would naturally recognize her.

So, that Silver Griffin figurine? Might want to save it for a really tough boss fight. Because it's kinda powerful. The Griffin it summons is a Champion Tier monster.

No, Goldleon is Champion as well. Griffins are one of the strongest animal figurine you can find. A Silver Griffin figurine is very rare and something you only found because you got a 89 on a secret GM loot roll. The Lion is very strong, but the Griffin has all sorts of special attacks and abilities.

Right, I should probably explain how the figurines work. Bronze = weakest, Silver = medium, Gold = strongest. However, some animals are naturally more powerful than others. For example, a Silver Griffin or Silver Chimera(references ftw!) figurine will be stronger than a Gold Tiger or Gold Lion. A Bronze Dragon will be stronger than a Silver Lion. And so on, and so forth.

Animal Figurines are one-use items. Once you use it, the figurine breaks, and the summoned animal stays until either you're out of danger(If summoned in the middle of a battle) or 1 hour passes(If summoned outside of battle).

In battle, summoned animals are friendly towards the party and your allies, but will fight as they see best. In other words, I control them. You can give a summoned animal simple orders though, like "Attack that dude over there!" and it will obey. No rolling required. More complex orders will definitely need rolls though. No telling the Tiger to form Delta Attack Pattern X.

Outside of battle, using an Animal Figurine is similar to using 50 Energy in STARS. Because you're giving up a powerful combat aid, I'll be generous and let the player who used the figurine tell me what happens. The animal only stays for an hour, then it disappears, but you can decide whether you just want a friendly purring Tiger to cuddle with for an hour or you want the Tiger to be a perimeter alarm and warn you if anything gets close.

Yes, figurines of large flying animals can be used as sky taxis- as long as you pass a few checks and have a good saddle on you. And you aren't going somewhere that would take the animal over an hour to get to. That would be bad. But that's one sure way Aeva could ride a dragon, anyway.

But wouldn't you want to save the Griffin for that? The Griffin is stronger.

Or I could use the lion to have a glorious golden steed to ride into battle.