Fantasy RPG Forum - Standing Trials

Thread Name: Here
City/Area: Sea off Rynmere
Notes/Warnings: NA
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:

Navigation: A better view from the Crow's Nest
Navigation: How to tell when you've gone off course
Navigation: Always check the map
Navigation: The technique of tacking to pinpoint direction
Seafaring: Slacking the headsail
Seafaring: Easing out the spanker
Seafaring: How to outrun an enemy ship
Leadership: The importance of having a second in command
Leadership: Give and take

Loot:

Contract for trade route between Rynmere and Rharne.

Injuries/Overstepping: NA
Renown: Not sure
Collaboration: Yes
Magic EXP: No

Eye of the Tiger
City/Area: Warrick, Rynmere. Memory
Notes/Warnings: This was a little challenge I'd set for myself, and boy did I struggle! It turned out meh because of it. I just hope it's coherent.
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:

• Strength: Combat training
• Unarmed: the importance of distance
• Unarmed: Know the range of your opponent
• Unarmed: Circling your opponent
• Unarmed: Use an opening to strike
• Unarmed: Know the limits of your capabilities

Collaboration: (No)
Magic EXP: (Magic is for those who cannot trust in their natural abilities)

Thread Name: Building a Better Golem
City/Area: Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: None
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:

Necromancy: Creating a golem
Necromancy: Creating a giant thrall
Necromancy: Combining a giant's strength with a golem's toughness
Necromancy: Implanting wells into thralls
Necromancy: Making a golem from stone and clay
Teaching: Pop quiz!

Loot: +1 Giant stone/clay golem, named Craggy.
Injuries/Overstepping: None
Renown: None
Collaboration: No
Magic EXP: Yes - Necromancy

Thread Name: Courier
City/Area: Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: Nothing beyond a bit of crass humor
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Combat [Bludgeon]: Uppercut
Combat [Unarmed]: Targeting the groin
Combat [Unarmed]: Using your body to trip the opponent
Detection: Spotting a Tail
Detection: Listening to footsteps
Etiquette: Shaking someone's hand in greeting

Location: Almund Bazaar
Location: The Kennel
NPC: Dana Guiscard: Kennel Master

Loot: +50 gn (Payment for Odd Job)
-6 sn for bag purchase (Large (4 sn) x Waterproof leather (1.5 multiplier) x Shoulder Straps (.5 multiplier)
Injuries/Overstepping: Perhaps a bit of bruising from where the attacker's legs collided with the right side of his body
Renown: Perhaps a better reputation with The Kennel for a successful completion of the job
Collaboration: No
Magic EXP: No

Thread Name: Refining the Sword
City/Area: Ne'haer
Notes/Warnings: no

Requested Rewards: Knowledge:
Blades (Longsword): Disarming somebody
Blades (Longsword): Don't hold your sword in a vice-like grip
Blades (Longsword): Cross Strike
Endurance: A practice fight
Endurance: Improves automatically if you regularly work out
Endurance: If you don't build up your endurance, you won't last long in a fight
Strength: Necessary for a swordman to have
Strength: Building up the strength in your arms
Strength: A forceful thrust
Strength: Building up your strength by attaching a weight to your sword
Teaching: Teaching somebody to fight with a sword
Teaching: Asking a student to show you what they are capable of

Zasalamir: My Student

Loot: N/A
Injuries/Overstepping: N/A
Renown: Yes, for teaching Zasalamir.
Collaboration: Yes
Magic EXP: N/A

Knowledge:
Strength: Tensing your muscles during exercise is a good method of isolating muscles for working out
Detection: Listening to inflection in tone
Endurance: Pushing Through Exhaustion
Endurance: Ignoring fatigue
Blades: Slice and stab
Blades: An on-guard stance
Armed Combat: Blade is an Extension of the Body
Bladed Combat (long sword): Slicing with a long sword
Bladed Combat (long sword): Trusting when unable to slash
Bladed Combat (longswords): Remain relaxed, flexible and responsive
Bladed Combat (longswords): Fight from the hips
Bladed Combat (longswords): Leaning/ducking to avoid attacks

Loot: N/A
Injuries/Overstepping: N/A
Renown: Reviewer's discretion.
Collaboration: yes
Magic EXP: N/A

Thread Name: Diamond in the Rough
City/Area: Outside Egilrun
Notes/Warnings: N/A Mentions of murder, subtle hinting at suicide.
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge: 10xp
Appraisal: Consider Return Value
Appraisal: Don't Let Rumors Ruin a Good Deal
Appraisal: Death Makes Real Estate Cheap
Appraisal: How to Spot a "Flip"
Business Management: How to Buy a Property
Discipline: Resist Old Traumas & Persist
Loot: A House! (Previously approved by Pegasus)
Injuries/Overstepping: N/A
Renown: Yes, please! Small. Rumors spread of a stunning winged woman buying the haunted property, fearless of the home's history. Many expect an ill fate to befall the foreigner.
Collaboration: No.
Magic EXP: No