If this is the funeral of a PC, I might let the player that ran said PC describe the affair. If it's another NPC, there must be a really great reason to use the spotlight to highlight this scene.
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
I'm currently playing a Cleric of the Grave and frequently have to talk to NPCs during downtime about funerary plans such as requests, rites, wills and contacting next of kin. While my Cleric generally knows the respectful rites to perform based on someone's heritage, he'd be totally stumped as to how to see to a Drow's remains because they're a rare sight in the adventure I'm playing. So, here's some questions we may need answering:
How common are open sightings of drow (bearing in mind the vast majority live(d) in the Underdark, according to published materials)?
How well recorded is drow culture, up to and including funerary rites? Is cremation the worst way to send them off? Should they be buried face down, and so on.
How is drow religion seen in your setting? Would a funeral be seen as an affront to other gods?
This could of course just be handwaved by saying "the funerary god of my setting has the same rites for everyone regardless of race, alignment, or class, and ensures everyone reaches the afterlife in the end if this rite is performed".
If you want to go ahead though, here's some ideas for what the 6GP could buy:
Candles ("to signal the dead god's ferry")
Incense ("to bring about a breeze for the dead god's ferry")
Copper Pieces over each eye ("to pay the dead god for safe passage")
Cloth / Coffin ("to allow them rest upon the dead god's ferry")
Just some ideas. You could set the prices for these things, or take the full sum and allow the funeral director to do all they need.
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Zero is the most important number in D&D: Session Zero sets the boundaries and the tone; Rule Zero dictates the Dungeon Master (DM) is the final arbiter; and Zero D&D is better than Bad D&D.
"Let us speak plainly now, and in earnest, for words mean little without the weight of conviction."
Standard funeral, bury him in the ground. His money is spent on providing food and drink for the people who come to attend. 6gp isn't going to afford him much more than that.
I like to use the environment to help tell the story. For a fall funeral you might say,
“The last brown leaves blown from their branches settle on the ground as * is lowered to his final rest. A final dim dying light is cast by the setting sun marking the end of a short fall day and beginning of a long night. Someone strikes flint against steel to light a candle, and they in turn light the candles of two more who light two more each and on and on until the graveyard is filled with the glow of a hundred bright warm points of light, each held by a villager who called * a friend.”
Presumably the PCs are pissed that Ferne murdered this person, so you should ask them if they have anything to contribute to this scene, tears, words, a libation poured out in honor of the deceased? You’re really queuing up an oath of vengeance here if someone is getting the hint.
Can someone give me a good desc of a funeral for a Wretched Lawful Good Drow paladin. He has 6 gp and was brutally murdered by a npc called Ferne
If this is the funeral of a PC, I might let the player that ran said PC describe the affair. If it's another NPC, there must be a really great reason to use the spotlight to highlight this scene.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
I'm currently playing a Cleric of the Grave and frequently have to talk to NPCs during downtime about funerary plans such as requests, rites, wills and contacting next of kin. While my Cleric generally knows the respectful rites to perform based on someone's heritage, he'd be totally stumped as to how to see to a Drow's remains because they're a rare sight in the adventure I'm playing. So, here's some questions we may need answering:
This could of course just be handwaved by saying "the funerary god of my setting has the same rites for everyone regardless of race, alignment, or class, and ensures everyone reaches the afterlife in the end if this rite is performed".
If you want to go ahead though, here's some ideas for what the 6GP could buy:
Just some ideas. You could set the prices for these things, or take the full sum and allow the funeral director to do all they need.
Zero is the most important number in D&D: Session Zero sets the boundaries and the tone; Rule Zero dictates the Dungeon Master (DM) is the final arbiter; and Zero D&D is better than Bad D&D.
"Let us speak plainly now, and in earnest, for words mean little without the weight of conviction."
- The Assemblage of Houses, World of Warcraft
He's seen quite a regularly. Hes not fully drow and his town accept him
He was highly beloved by the town. He was young too. About 14 in drow years.
Standard funeral, bury him in the ground. His money is spent on providing food and drink for the people who come to attend. 6gp isn't going to afford him much more than that.
I like to use the environment to help tell the story. For a fall funeral you might say,
“The last brown leaves blown from their branches settle on the ground as * is lowered to his final rest. A final dim dying light is cast by the setting sun marking the end of a short fall day and beginning of a long night. Someone strikes flint against steel to light a candle, and they in turn light the candles of two more who light two more each and on and on until the graveyard is filled with the glow of a hundred bright warm points of light, each held by a villager who called * a friend.”
Presumably the PCs are pissed that Ferne murdered this person, so you should ask them if they have anything to contribute to this scene, tears, words, a libation poured out in honor of the deceased? You’re really queuing up an oath of vengeance here if someone is getting the hint.
Ok, thats not gonna be too hard thanks.