Questions about Questors
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2018 9:21 am
I have been reading through the new Questors book, and just want to double check that I have not missed something.
So I kept reading expecting to find the thing that limits how high/fast I can advance as a questor and did not find it! Or at least the only limit I found was now much LP you were willing to spend on your Questor Rank, a requirement to do one quest per tier (which I admit is could be a huge firebrake), and the possibility that it might also be limited by a GM's and/or players regard for roleplaying "as questors follow the ideals and goals of their patron".
Am I correct that the only "Crunchy" rule is LP and the quest? If I have some LP and a few days of downtime I can declare an undying devotion to (insert passions name here) and then spend the next few days in communion with my passion increasing my questor rank to 4 right off the bat? The only requirement is that I need to do one quest to raise to rank 5, and another to raise to rank 9?
Question Two.
How often is it expected that Questors will commune with their passion? The reason I ask is because you get 1/2/3 DP each time you do it. It seems to me that (crunchy rules) a Questor hardly needs to go out of his way to perform AoD (just enough to avoid falling out of favor with his passion), and get the majority of his DP from communing every day. Especially if he gets to commune with his passion every day of downtime. An Adherent of Upendal can spent one week repairing a castle for 5 DP. Or he can spend an hour a day for a week communing with his passion for 14 DP. I suppose he could do both for 19 DP a week, all off-camera. On the third hand, a Questor of Upendal does not have much that he CAN do on-camera to earn DP.
Back in 1st edition I had GMs that did not allow karma rituals every day, and very much limited them in downtime. If the group was taking a few weeks off for forging / research, it was not allowed for everybody to do a karma ritual every day to end the downtime with maxed out karma (because karma was a precious resource, and he felt it should not be stockpiled by resting). I am wondering if the intention is that all Questors will have their DP pools maxed out at the end of an extended downtime due to communing with their passion?
Question Three.
What is the expected or suggested ratio to Devotion Points earned on-camera, as opposed to off-camera?
Example: A questor of Florinious might raise his sides flag en enemy territory at the turning point of a battle. Or he might spend a week organizing a celebration. The first will always be on-camera during an adventure. The 2nd will usually be off-camera during downtime.
Specifically, most of the examples for various questors include "spend a week doing something" for a major act of devotion worth 5 Devotion Points. But many (but not all) also give examples of things that could be done while adventuring. And of course you can get a lot by Communing with your Passion which costs nothing except an hour a day.
Once again, using only the published examples, the only '"adventuring" option a questor of Upendal has is to protect items from destruction.
In 3rd edition, Questors growth was limited by the AoD (Acts of Devotion) they did. DP (Devotion Points) were a bit like LP, you did enough AoD to earn enough DP to unlock a Devotion Rank. Now as I understand it, that is no longer the case. DP are kind of like 1st edition Karma. You earn it and spend it as bonus dice.As questors follow the ideals and goals of their patron, their connection to the Passion grows stronger. This allows the questor to use Legend Points to purchase higher ranks in the Questor devotion, advance granted devotions, and learn new granted devotions.
Advancing or learning devotions requires the questor to commune with their patron using the Questor devotion as described on page 179. No test is required, the character simply spends the Legend Points and increases the devotion rank. Only one devotion may be purchased or increased per day, and a devotion cannot be increased more than one rank at a time.
So I kept reading expecting to find the thing that limits how high/fast I can advance as a questor and did not find it! Or at least the only limit I found was now much LP you were willing to spend on your Questor Rank, a requirement to do one quest per tier (which I admit is could be a huge firebrake), and the possibility that it might also be limited by a GM's and/or players regard for roleplaying "as questors follow the ideals and goals of their patron".
Am I correct that the only "Crunchy" rule is LP and the quest? If I have some LP and a few days of downtime I can declare an undying devotion to (insert passions name here) and then spend the next few days in communion with my passion increasing my questor rank to 4 right off the bat? The only requirement is that I need to do one quest to raise to rank 5, and another to raise to rank 9?
Question Two.
How often is it expected that Questors will commune with their passion? The reason I ask is because you get 1/2/3 DP each time you do it. It seems to me that (crunchy rules) a Questor hardly needs to go out of his way to perform AoD (just enough to avoid falling out of favor with his passion), and get the majority of his DP from communing every day. Especially if he gets to commune with his passion every day of downtime. An Adherent of Upendal can spent one week repairing a castle for 5 DP. Or he can spend an hour a day for a week communing with his passion for 14 DP. I suppose he could do both for 19 DP a week, all off-camera. On the third hand, a Questor of Upendal does not have much that he CAN do on-camera to earn DP.
Back in 1st edition I had GMs that did not allow karma rituals every day, and very much limited them in downtime. If the group was taking a few weeks off for forging / research, it was not allowed for everybody to do a karma ritual every day to end the downtime with maxed out karma (because karma was a precious resource, and he felt it should not be stockpiled by resting). I am wondering if the intention is that all Questors will have their DP pools maxed out at the end of an extended downtime due to communing with their passion?
Question Three.
What is the expected or suggested ratio to Devotion Points earned on-camera, as opposed to off-camera?
Example: A questor of Florinious might raise his sides flag en enemy territory at the turning point of a battle. Or he might spend a week organizing a celebration. The first will always be on-camera during an adventure. The 2nd will usually be off-camera during downtime.
Specifically, most of the examples for various questors include "spend a week doing something" for a major act of devotion worth 5 Devotion Points. But many (but not all) also give examples of things that could be done while adventuring. And of course you can get a lot by Communing with your Passion which costs nothing except an hour a day.
Once again, using only the published examples, the only '"adventuring" option a questor of Upendal has is to protect items from destruction.