2 years later...

[reiphil]

News of the adventuring party that helped discover and also destroy the forge of spells inside the Wave Echo Cave run rampant and bring growth to the small town of Phandalin. The crumbled ruins around the wooden buildings are slowly reconstructed over the two years and the small mining town becomes a mining city.

Here, in Phandalin, a new guild arises and proves themselves by defeating the threats that approach the city and even send adventuring parties out to smaller cities around who may need help. Rumors are beginning to spread that a grand adventure may be forming in the winds... Phandalin's small guild as well as others from around the world begin to put the pieces together to gain more fame and fortune...

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Starting level: 5
Starting GP: 5th level GP + gp your characters have earned already (if using the same character).

Background hook: Your character is either already a member of the guild, seeking to join the guild, or allied with the guild in some way. You may add an NPC or two to the guild or even include your past character (if you are starting fresh) as a member of the guild.

Guild Rules:

Guild Name - Work as a group to come up with a cool name
Guild Membership - Currently 18, including the 6 of you already
Guild Benefits - Guild will provide basic gear/weaponry/armor (up to leather) for free. Guild alchemist and blacksmith may help create/lessen the time for creation of objects at a cheaper cost. Lodgings in the guild hall are free. Guild Merchant may attempt to help players buy/find special gear they need...
Guild Tax - the guild requests 20% of all earnings. This is the honor system, however note, the less you fund your guild... the less benefits you receive, and the more you fund your guild the more benefits you may receive.

Current guild NPCs:
Guild Leader - ??? (You guys can decide if one of your old characters or current characters want to fill this position)
Blacksmith - Havost Dawnhammer
Alchemist - "Shifts" Magran
Merchant - Anya Feathertongue
Quartermaster - Olly O. Free
Hall Master - Lady Deirdra
Information Broker/Job Finder - Cora Petalfoot

Strike Team 1 -
JP's Character
Stephen's Character
Gabe's Character
Micah's Character
Mike's Character
David's Character

Strike Team 2 -
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[kore]

Cora Petalfoot will have joined the guild, do they need a fence or information broker...both? Something else?

Regardless, I will be bringing a new character, a traveller from a large city, to Phandalin.

How is 5th level wealth calculated? I only see starting equipment/wealth on p.143.

Guild name suggestions:
- Lost Cause
- CSI Shinwa
- The Backup Plan

[The Keeper]

Is everyone bringing new characters besides me?

If you are bringing a new character what is going to happen to your old one? I like the RP we had going so I'd like to continue my character's interaction with your old characters if they're not deceased. Basically I want to know that they don't just disappear from existence.

...and I nominate Brodrick to be the guild leader.

Guild name suggestion:
Silver Fist

Motto: A finger can be broken. A fist cannot.

[gabe]

What?! Brodrick said he helped fund the guild just because we needed a 4th! How could he be guild leader? Gharrak nominates Gharrak! Gharrak then realizes he probably can't run a guild as well as it can be and is ok with someone else being guild leader, preferably someone with a mind for logistics and stuff like that. Gharrak does everything in his power to help expand the guild, searching for previous party members (Cora and ...Mike's old character). Possibly a face man? Since the guild is based in Phenalin when he's not out spreading the guild's reputation he's holding down the fort. He also tries to make sure that the guild only takes up 'good' jobs.

...in the interest of actually agreeing I think people should submit guild names/mottos that they like (if they want) but we have to vote for another's submission.

Guild Name:
Shiledbearers

Motto:
Shielding the helpless from the darkness.

...I vote for Silver Fist Name/Motto

[kore]

From a meta perspective, I like the idea of the only player who is continuing on with their old character being the guild leader.

As for the name, I don't think it should sound like a militia or mercenary group. Something a bit more broad and doesn't say "we smash stuff".

Here's another:
The Bureau

[gabe]

I won't lie, i also like that idea. Makes the guild leader someone that's not just an npc. And I also believe it should be one of the founding members.

If we're not going for a milita/mercenary group, I'm partial to The Backup Plan. If this new group is as dysfunctional as the old group, it fits.

[The Keeper]

Sept 20, 2014 22:29:12 GMT -8 kore said:

From a meta perspective, I like the idea of the only player who is continuing on with their old character being the guild leader.

As for the name, I don't think it should sound like a militia or mercenary group. Something a bit more broad and doesn't say "we smash stuff".

Here's another:
The Bureau

I see the correlation between fist and smash stuff. I meant it more as a cooler way to say united we stand, divided we fall.

For my vote I like the bureau with the asterisk that it sounds a little "wet work" to me or maybe even politically inclined.

[kore]

Yeah, but The Bureau has many branches that perform different type of work: security, enforcement, investigation, acquisition, aaaand ... maybe a little wet-work; it doesn't have to be connected to a government body.

Anyhow, they're only suggestions.

[reiphil]

The Bureau was also a movie!

And i'm pretty sure a fist can be broken. If not, punch a stone wall as hard as you can. Please let me know results!

[The Keeper]

Sept 22, 2014 13:40:50 GMT -8 reiphil said:

The Bureau was also a movie!

And i'm pretty sure a fist can be broken. If not, punch a stone wall as hard as you can. Please let me know results!

Not a fist comprised of friendship and good will.

[reiphil]

place all your faith, friendship and good will into your hands. Curl your hands into a fist. Punch stone wall. Let me know results!

[kore]

Yeah, so <Guild Name>?

[The Keeper]

I'd like to save the "Silver Fist" name for my future paladin order.

How about something cheesy like Swords of Justice? Or how about Fortuna?

[gabe]

WOOHOO. SHIELDBEARERS IT IS.

[kore]

Oct 1, 2014 14:45:18 GMT -8 The Keeper said:

I'd like to save the "Silver Fist" name for my future paladin order.

How about something cheesy like Swords of Justice? Or how about Fortuna?

I like Fortuna, though the OCD in me doesn't like that it references a Roman goddess; I guess that is the nature of our language.

Edit:
Fellowship of Fortune
Adventure League
Quest Society
...or some organizational unit that includes the following:
Force
Association