Introducing the Order of Magnitude

The Order of Magnitude is my current gaming group, specifically a group that I've been running in the Eberron setting using Pathfinder (and later Savage Worlds). This blog is meant to serve as a repository of their adventures and craziness.

Before we get to that I should introduce the members of the Order:


Magnus (AWOL)
The raving heart and soul of the Order. Magnus is the one who founded and named the adventuring party (everyone else was quite drunk at the time) and his personal brand of lunacy is the driving force behind many of the Order's misadventures. Although most of the team would love to get rid of him due to the chaos he creates, his talents as an artificer makes him invaluable (the Order loves their personalized handy haversacks). Unfortunately he is no longer a member of the team that he founded, having pulled a "Vader" and joined up with the Lord of Blades (although who knows how long the LoB will tolerate him).




Nolan (Current)
The moral compass of the group who keeps the Order afloat and out of jail, Nolan is the main counter to Magnus' raging id. Nolan is a deadly martial artist and a dedicated gourmand. If there's any chance a problem can be solved by cookery he will take it, and if that fails he will start punching faces. With the recent changes, Nolan and Jack are the only founding members of the Order remaining and (since Glorin left) the sole Good aligned member.







Glorin (Retired)
 The Order's requisite axe-weilding dwarf. Glorin was a stout warrior who was unfortunately a little bit too easily swayed by Magnus. Unfortunately his player has gone off to college and thus Glorin has retired from the Order, taking up a position in Breland's Redcloaks and working for the crown.






Jack The Black (Current)

Jack serves as both the Order's primary healer, possessing surgical skills and the Dragonmark of Healing (in my version of eberron I swapped the races for Healing and Handling), and their main arcane spellcaster. He's a sorcerer with a bit of a creepy vibe and a grab bag of spells that somehow manage to be just right for disrupting my plans. He and Nolan are now the only two founding remembers left in the Order. During his time with the Order Jack and Magnus collaborated on the creation of an Alchemical Golem that Jack has dubbed "Nurse". More recently Jack has decided that Nurse should get a sheath of preserved flesh and an illusion to make "her" appear relatively human (although a 7', expressionless and silent human).

Shara (Dead)

The party rogue and ranged combatant (theoretically). Shara was an impressively tiny (4' 9") half-elf who never seemed to catch a break. Bad luck and bad rolls tended to cause her plans to flop and unfortunately she was murdered shortly after leaving the Order by members of the Emerald Claw (the player wanted to swap characters and I needed a plot hook).

Pax (Current)

Pax is the Order's current "big gun" (especially since Glorin has left), a shifter berserker. Pax also has the least convoluted but most mysterious backstory of any Order member. He exploded out of a dead rhino summoned by an enemy's Bag of Tricks. He won't ever explain how or why he ended up there, prefering to try and forget. Pax is there whenever an enemy needs to be slaughtered or a door bashed down (and often there when these things don't really need to happen all that much).

Ulrick (Current)

Ulrick is the leader of a group of adventurers known as the Band of Eston and a formery Cyran soldier. He and his followers worked for Merrix D'Cannith exploring the Mournlands for artifacts and any information on the Day of Mourning. He has a fanatical hatred of the Lord of Blades and is less than thrilled about warforged in general. After the Order lost Magnus, Shara, Sahath and Glorin following their adventures in Xendrik Merrix decided that the two groups should be merged, creating a fresh new Order of Magnitude.

Jin (Current)

Jin is a crack archer and member of the Band of Eston who joined up with the Order along with Ulrick. Although incredibly unlucky at most things his truly insane levels of skill with his bow means that he'll never really screw up when it comes to filling enemies full of arrows.

"Stein" (???)

A truly ancient old elf from Arenal (actually a drow, but raised among the Arenal elves), "Frank" (no one seems to want to use his elven name) is a powerful priest of the Undying Court who has come to Khorvaire (along with his Undying bodyguard) and apparently decided to pal around with a bunch of human adventurers. It's eventually revealed that he may actually be getting tired of life after nearly a millenia and is itching to move on to become one of the ancestors, leading to some unwise choices. "Frank" got in a bit of hot water after attacking a Blood of Vol priest in his home at Sharn and the player has temporarily moved away, leaving his future with the Order in question.

Cupcake (Retroactively non-existant)
A gnomish bard/reporter/spy, Cupcake is a tiny, extremely cute and extremely pink woman. Created as a master of support spells and social-fu, Cupcake has only participated in a session or two before her player had to drop out due to excess work. Cupcake's existance has been retconned out until the player decides whether or not they will return.

Peski (Dead)

A very appropriately named Gnome priest who hooked up with the Order after they had a few adventures. Although valued for his powerful party-boosting spells and summoning abilities Peski met an unfortunate end...eaten by a giant mechanical dragon. However, he had the honor of being the first in-game death of a PC during the Order's history.

Tayin (Dead)

A druid who joined along with Peski. Tayin loved to hurl wild animals at her foes and served the Order well, and a bit longer than Peski. Unfortunately she snuffed it when she decided it would be a good idea to pursue a fleeing Froghemoth underwater.

Sahath (Retired)

An Inquisitor of the Silver Flame and a skilled archer Sahath was an expert at smiting evil from afar. She joined up in Xendrik and helped the Order raid an acient temple in the jungles but once the Order returned home to Breland she went her own way and returned to Thrane.