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Low magic as mentioned above refers mostly to the 'ceiling' of what we're willing to give out loot wise and the highest level you're likely to reach.

We don't need to debate it, as its just a silly argument about semantics.

Poison on hit is typically too good to go on a base weapon that drops on quests.  And there are some weapons with disease on hit which clearly were not meant for monsters, but PCs, or are just meant to give flavor to the concept behind the weapon.

If his name was Shevroth when you met him that means I probably misspelled it on setname.

He also issues cease and desist orders to fan fiction about his works.

I think Beggar just crushed my dreams with the above post.

I can recall one high level barbarian. Aesthetically though its a double weapon and I prefer it as such. Historically its a simple weapon but to master it takes a lot of finesse and practice.

Just make it so ward area against scrying gives you a check to figure out the person's identity. Then its much like the PnP spell that detects scrying. The spell also then gets more use.

Magic weapon is used on almost every quest out there. Its very standard, so I hardly consider it metagaming unless a group member explicitly demands it as a condition for them coming, or talk to the group about what is within.

Lord Gull should not be AE'd, since its a potentially hostile action.

Remember, he's an important Docks NPC, so hostile action can be responded to, always get a DM. <.<

No real paladin will excuse any evil act made even in desperation. The circumstances only matter in the consideration of the gravity of a specific crime.  The fact of the matter and the real root of the problem is that few evil aligned PCs on EFU act out their alignment. The vast majority of them should be neutral aligned. To use a specific and recent example. The ruthless and highly chaotic PC Walter Hodgeton started neutral and shifted on a downward spiral to evil after several notable acts. So when you create your PC you should put heavy consideration into whether this PC really has committed many depraved, evil acts that are worthy of the alignment with future intent to commit many more. If not, then go neutral initially like Walter did.

I'm shocked more than any of you that I came up as a pure centrist, since I generally identify as economically 'right'.  Though Authoritarian versus Libertarian I'm about dead center.

[Economic Left/Right: -0.25Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.05]

Economic Left/Right: -0.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.05

Mastiff is a permanent summon, that is why you can't use other summons with it.

Yeah. And you really shouldn't log into another char either.to confirm. Log in and take it.

Kythorn 21st.

While the details of the Order's battle with the Armada and the events that followed are still shrouded in mystery, rumors begin to circulate in the days following. It would appear that the siege began with both sides taking hostages from the opposition.  Famed Knight-Templar Jacques De Villiers was taken captive on a flanking sortie in the Tangled Woods, while Tetrarch Maria Sevar of the Armada was captured on an attempt to infiltrate Castle Blackhearth from the tunnels below.

The Duke offered the Order a chance for unconditional surrender, when it was not taken, the Militia advanced.  Near catastrophic losses were taken by the Loyalist Militia, as the brave men attempted to take the battlements of the castle upon siege ladders.  All of this was apparently a ruse, as a Stygian Specialist used the time to unbar the gates, then jam them.  Only at this point, did the Stygian Infantry led by Infantryman Belalcazar and Loyalist adventurers advance.

At this point, the Order used the Stygian's own Alchemist Fire barrels, used from a daring raid upon the Piers to blow up a section of the stone span leading to Castle Blackhearth, the only method by which the castle could be entetered by the Dominion soldiers.

While entrapped, it did not seem to phase the Stygians and adventurers who calmly engaged the Numinous Order in the Courtyard. While the men of the Order, whose defense was led by Knight-Templar Ulric the Penitent, Templar Iodmyr York, and Templar Gregor Ostali attempted to repel the invaders, eventually they too were felled and taken hostage.

At this point, a man of the Order paraded out Tetrach Sevar at swordpoint, and the Stygian advance was halted by the prospect of such an important hostage being executed.

Negotiations were had, but fell through until Lord Agravain Blackhearth and his men arrived, for their intended assault upon the Armada's rear during the siege.  Derisively referring to the man as 'Antoine' and dismissing his title, Lord Blackhearth was swift to offer this deadly insult to force the Duke's hand in a challenge of honor.

As the Mists thickened terribly about the battlefield, a masked man stepped onto the battlefield, the Grandmaster of the Numinous Order, who revealed he would be serving as Lord Blackhearth's champion.  Upon removing his mask, all were shocked upon seeing his face.  The man was revealed to be Grimfael Corval, former Forgotten Templar of the Pallid Mask, who had been thought slain by vampires beneath the city.

As the two traded blows in the duel to follow, Master Ruby Vjasa Sumuri arrived onto the battlefield, and demanded that the duel cease.

As Sumuri read the proclamation of his grace, Count Zarono Senuspur, all participants of the battle were stunned to learn that he had recognized Lord Blackhearth's claim, and had granted him the surrounding lands as his fief.  Not only that, but he was declared to be direct retainers of the Senuspur family.  A title which would put him directly at odds with the Duke on Ymph, given that he would not be forced to swear fealty to him.

The reason given, was that Lord Blackhearth is tasked with using his lands to feed the Old City, which had been plagued by food riots for over a tenday prior to the battle.

While there are many other minutia to the proclamation which will be finally brought to the political forefront in the days to follow, one thing is clear.

The Numinous Order has returned.