Ever played Pathfinder: Kingmaker?
No.
"This character is essential to the Plot" is something that happens in story driven CRPGs.
Gods abowe, under and everywhere in between ... how many times i have to repeat it?
She can leave your party ...
She dont have to be invited in your party ...
She can be permanently killed at any point ...
Therefore she - is - not - essential - to - the - plot.
The item she posesses is ...
Shadowheart: around 170cm tall, humanoid, talking, alive ... carrier of McGuffin, not important on her own.
A box: around 20cm in diameter, polihedric in shape, not talking, presumabely also somehow alive ... essential for the plot.
See the difference?
I can upload pictures if necessary.
Another thing that happens in the tabletop game, is that if you bring a character with an ideology to the table that isn't compatible with the adventure the DM has planned, they may tell you to go away and make a different character. For example, I ran a campaign I called "Sky Raiders of Eberron", which started with a train robbery gone wrong. I briefed the players in session zero not to create very law abiding characters.
Lowely ...
Is there any limitation of kind of characters we can make presented by Larian (aka DM)? No? Just as i thought ...
[rhetoric] So what exactly is purpose of this statement? [/rhetoric]
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You had the most forgiving of DMs...really.
I wouldnt say so ... several of us died during that adventure.
I do think he forgive us few missteppes ... but not that much in the end.
I think i had good DM, the one that let you play your (read as your group) story in his world ... and let you solve things your (again read as plural) way ... rather than having pre-defined railroad you need to follow, and basicaly just telling you his story he prepared for you, where you can hardly decide anything.
A LOT of D&D modules have built it death traps and not all of them will easily let you off the hook with resurrection either and some are outright intended to be TPK traps....the players shall NOT mess with this...if they do they will all die. Oh you touched the wrong thing, roll dexterity, on a nat1, congrats you've been disintegrated...better pray somebody has true resurrection handy and the needed materials. Or oh you just summoned an enemy you have no effective way of dealing serious damage to, etc.
Cute ...
But what does any of that have to do with this topic? :-/
At any rate you really sound like one of the most annoying people to ever be at a table with..."but my character doesn't do this"...dude the DM already told you FIVE TIMES..."but I don't wanna, my immersion hurts".
I never said any of that ...
But you know what?
If that is the way you want to read it ... its your business.
I never planned to join your session, as i believe you never planed to join mine ...
So ... i gues we can calmly leave this matter be.
