@TheEdVerse DMing DH. Had our first session. How important is it for a spellcaster to register with the Watchful Order of Magists and Protectors? Do clerics/druids register? (P.s. thanks for signing the FR "fan" novel I wrote as a teen in the early 90s, and for all your work!)
— BAMorrier (@benmorrier) October 5, 2018
What about bards?
— Lana (@LanaLeesVoer) October 5, 2018
The Order generally "turns a blind eye" to bards visiting the city for a month or less, UNLESS they make a habit of spellhurling in public. However, if they settle down in the city for longer than a month (NOT rent rooms and then vanish from the city to go adventuring for…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
…longer, but live daily in the city for longer than a one-month stretch), the Order will send a welcoming committee (never less than 3 powerful mages, with bodyguards and "wand-and-ring-ready-for-trouble" geared up) to lean on them to register with the Order, or leave the city.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
And "leave" doesn't mean exit through one city gate and come back through another, even a month later; it means gone for this season at least. Piergeiron and Khelben unhesitatingly backed the Order in all such exiles; it remains to be seen if Vajra and Laeral will do so (i.e. …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
…up to your DM). Bards visiting the city for a tenday or so "on tour" (performing) have always gotten a pass (an exemption, not a literal document) from the Order, but in elder days, they always out of courtesy dropped by the Order HQ and told the duty magists of their…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
arrival or departure.) The wise ones still do. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018