Faolyn
(she/her)
Sure, let's look at mailpeople. If I can't get the USPS to send my message, I can use the phone, email, UPS, FedEx, other courier services (google shows me about six or seven other companies nearish to me), asking a neighbor or friend to deliver it for me, hand-delivering it myself, asking the recipient to pick it up... there's a lot of options.that is like saying the mailman is not important, the only one that matters is the recipient... no mailman, no delivery
The mailman--or the messengers in the feature--are not the important part. The important part is getting the attention of the contact. I don't need a messenger if I (or another member of the party) can cast sending or animal messenger, for instance, but the feature itself remains useful to me, because I know the contact, not the forger or fence or illicit dealer I need.
In last night's game (I am not the DM), the warlock (not a criminal), who is using the UA Raven Queen pact, used their pact feature raven (not a familiar) to send a message.
(Please tell me you're not so ridiculously picky that you wouldn't let the feature work if the criminal got in touch with their contact via a non-messenger way.)
The purpose of the contact it to liaise with the criminal network. Maybe they don't know a guy for everything, but they're going to know a guy for many things.or not, none of this is spelled out by the feature, your contact is not all knowing and can help everywhere and with everything
Edit: This is spelled out. "You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other criminals." What do you think this network of other criminals is for?
Nothing works everywhere all the time. But that's not a reason to decide it simply doesn't work at all.sure, I am questioning that it works everywhere and all the time
OK. So? Did you really think that I was serious when I mentioned cell phones?that is another thing, it is also not instantaneous, it might take months, even years, to hear back...
So? Does the feature say you can only have one contact and you can never gain any new messengers? Does the feature stop working if you do? No, it doesn't.maybe, but that still is not my contact, so not a use of this feature
And you would be completely wrong about this. What I am is caring about both the rules and the fiction at the same time, and what I do is spend more than a few seconds thinking about how something can work before deciding it's inexplicable or illogical.You seem to not care about how anything works, just as long as you can always get a message to your contact (apparently you do not even care if it is your contact, just as long as someone gets the message...). It's basically all inexplicable and illogical but still somehow reliable despite this. I am not interested in that.
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