[Interest Check] Lewd Themes in 5e Forgotten Realms

[DeviantMunster]

Depends on the UA. Some of the stuff is a little... eh! Some of it is very nice.

[AndyZ]

This seems reasonable. I mean, I'm not going to hold people to anything mechanical until a group is selected.

...also, I'm a bit of a masochist. So don't feel that bad.

Well, your avatar seems to imply that you like tentacles, but I'll ask about all those specifics when things seem a little more close to starting ;-) Part of me even wonders if we should suggest trying to start up a less than good party makeup and consider collecting our group a big harem.

[Snake]

Hmmm... I'm working on my concept personally.I don't know what to try out

[Zaer Darkwail]

Depending on party size my own suggestion for merc company (or adventure company's) name to be "X Deadly Sins" or "X Dangerous Vices"

[Snake]

Ooh can I make a somewhat slutty bard? :3 :3

[AnneReinard]

I will now redirect everyone to https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=277340.0, where I shall work on setting up the actual game!

[Daril]

Hrm. I'm still fairly new to running 5e. So I think I'm ultimately going to decide on no homebrew or Unearthed Arcana content (aside from Revised Ranger if anybody wants to be a Ranger).

Perhaps that's for the best.  One of the possible settings seemed like a good fit for the character, but I'm not sure if she'd have been a good fit for the party.

Now let's see if I can get a submission based on one of my other concepts done up before everything fills up.  :P

Edit: Not being very familiar with the canonical 5e settings, I thought I should do a little research on the Zhentarim.  Looking at the page on them on the Forgotten Realms wiki, they seem like a lot more than just a simple mercenary band.  They seem to be a hierarchical organization with overarching goals that seeks to rule and is involved in religion and deals with dark powers.  I thought our characters were just going to be simple mercenaries, is that not the case?

[Chulanowa]

Perhaps that's for the best.  One of the possible settings seemed like a good fit for the character, but I'm not sure if she'd have been a good fit for the party.

Now let's see if I can get a submission based on one of my other concepts done up before everything fills up.  :P

Edit: Not being very familiar with the canonical 5e settings, I thought I should do a little research on the Zhentarim.  Looking at the page on them on the Forgotten Realms wiki, they seem like a lot more than just a simple mercenary band.  They seem to be a hierarchical organization with overarching goals that seeks to rule and is involved in religion and deals with dark powers.  I thought our characters were just going to be simple mercenaries, is that not the case?

Think of it like, you're level 3, out of a possible twenty (or beyond, this being the Forgotten Realms setting) - you are a low-level employee, a recruit, possibly even a mook-for-hire that the higher-ups send to do all the grubby dirty work, while they handle the higher-end stuff and conspiracies and whatnot.

[Zaer Darkwail]

Also Zhentarim is organization/patron for mercs, meaning working for zhents do not make you into a zhent. Think zhentarim more as patron you work for as part of their hierarchy. If you get offer to join the organization itself; then you go deep slippery slope to evil.

[Muse]

  OOh,  hey!  Am I too late?  :)

[Daril]

Thanks for the answers about the Zhentarim from posters here and the GM in the new thread.  I actually wonder if I should move discussion to the new thread but I'm reluctant to spam it up with discussions about "work in progress" material.

I've been thinking of playing a half-drow swordswoman/experienced mercenary.  The character is kind of inspired by this image but I feel like the skimpy outfit might be a bit ridiculous in a more serious setting.  :P  (I thought about justifying it by making her a former gladiator, but you'd think she'd have changed to a more practical style by now.)

I'm also not really that confident in my grasp of drow in the canon settings though I'm not sure I actually need to be that knowledgeable for this particular character.  I was thinking maybe she was exiled/abandoned on the surface due to being a half blood -would that fit?  Might have ended up as a slave for a while -perhaps she learned her trade after being bought by a mercenary.

[Zaer Darkwail]

Well, as half-drow you do not need know drow racial lore as much if you got entirely abandoned/sold out as a slave. You may had born in Underdark but your mother (who may had been prostitute) then sold you as a child as a slave and then someone from surface bought you and then trained you be gladiator/mercenary slave (perhaps a Zhent or someone else). What comes to outfit; this is fantasy RPG and there is this universal rule about this;

[Chulanowa]

Thanks for the answers about the Zhentarim from posters here and the GM in the new thread.  I actually wonder if I should move discussion to the new thread but I'm reluctant to spam it up with discussions about "work in progress" material.

I've been thinking of playing a half-drow swordswoman/experienced mercenary.  The character is kind of inspired by this image but I feel like the skimpy outfit might be a bit ridiculous in a more serious setting.  :P  (I thought about justifying it by making her a former gladiator, but you'd think she'd have changed to a more practical style by now.)

I'm also not really that confident in my grasp of drow in the canon settings though I'm not sure I actually need to be that knowledgeable for this particular character.  I was thinking maybe she was exiled/abandoned on the surface due to being a half blood -would that fit?  Might have ended up as a slave for a while -perhaps she learned her trade after being bought by a mercenary.

Ever read anything by R.A. Salvatore, the Drizzt stories? Same world, and all those books are considered canonical.

[Zaer Darkwail]

Ever read anything by R.A. Salvatore, the Drizzt stories? Same world, and all those books are considered canonical.

Or War of Spider Queen series.