slimykuotoan wrote:
With regard to the honor system with dice rolls, etc. It might be a good idea to use an online roller which e-mails you the results of our atribute rolls.
Can I get your e-mail address Treebore?
b o r z o i a d d i c t at yahoo dot com
No dice roller needed. If anyone feels a need to cheat thats their loss. I'm not going to sweat over it.
That will include when we game. You'll roll your own dice. If you cheat, again thats your loss, your problem. I'll be expecting you to be honest. Your integrity is up to you.
Just use my preferred method. You'll average around a 15. A super character is much more likely with it, but high stats don't intimidate me as a CK and I know that 98% of all players like high stats.
So everyone is going to have high stats, probably a few 18's, 19's after racial mod.
Nothing I can't handle.
So just worry about having a fun character, we'll have a fun game.
I DMed 3E for almost 5 years. I can handle the "high power" of C&C with ease. Heck, they are still nothing compared to RIFTS, Synnibar, and others I have played over the years.
BTW, as for monsters I do not go by the book. I modify them as I see fit in order to be challenging to you guys. So if your 10th level and you run into Trolls, don't expect them to be easy. They probably will be, unless I want it to be an important, or key, encounter. IF so then they may be 10 HD and have more attacks/round, do higher damage, etc...
Whatever it takes to make you sweat when I want you too.
Plus they will earn you more xp's and treasure.
Plus, when you read my house rules, don't think your PC's won't die. They will if you continue to fight and you should have run. Those luck points and other rules I like to use only decrease the liklihood of your PC dying, not eliminate it.
For example, I am running "Fingers of the Forsaken Hand". Last weekend 3 of the 4 characters, plus the Dwarf Fighter henchman, were all reincarnated by the Druid twice last gaming session. They are now elves and a gnome. They were human and a dwarf.
SO despite the luck points and attempts at god calls, they still died.
So only play if you can handle characters dying. Don't worry, you'll know NPC's who can bring your character back to life if you want to keep playing that PC.
Also, I like to use Bard's Gate, Endhome (from Lost City of Barakus), and Don Eamon (from the Grey Citadel) as cities in my campaigns. So if you own those familiarize yourselves. I may not use specific NPC's/shops as written in those sources, but the maps, at the very least, will help you.
If your going to use them as your place of origin let me know.
Right now I am thinking of going ahead and using Erde and placing the Highlands in the area to the Northwest of Unklars lands. If I do that you guys are going to start out in Outremere and travel to the Highlands. Going around, with a wide birth, the lands of Unklar.
So you will all probably be second level by the time you get to the highlands area. Maybe even 3rd, depending on how you guys decide to handle some stuff I'll be cooking up.
BTW, if you ever run into Eldritch Goblyns when your below 4th level I am probably expecting you to run. They are probably the deadliest species/race in Erde.
Elves are widely seriously disliked, even outright hated, in Erde, because of how they ran from Unklar. To the point where the Elves left the world of Erde until Unklar was defeated just over a century ago.
Enough elves stayed, and performed heroic deeds, some critical to the eventual defeat of Unklar, that not everyone hates elves, but don't be surprised if you play an elf and merchants refuse to do business with you, charge you a lot more than anyone else, or kick you out of their place of business.
Friends of elves can expect similiar treatment. So keep that in mind if your thinking of playing an elf.
If you want to play a class from the Netbook of Classses or Crusader 4 or 5 let me know. I'll probably be OK with it.
Another rule I need to let you know about now. No evil alignments, and no Chaotic Neutral. I don't need any help killing your PC's.
Working as a team will be expected by the time you guys reach 3rd or 4th level. Thats when I will build encounters taking good teamwork into account, anyways. If you don't play that way by then I'll still design it that way.
So I hope you guys are good at team play.
Maybe it will help if I tell you guys what I consider fun. At the core I like hard fought battles, with death being a very real possibility. I like a fair amount of magic items to be handed out. I like you guys to be rich, eventually. I may very well make you into nobility if the game goes that way.
I "play off of my players". This means what you do, what you say, will influence what direction I will take an adventure, even the whole campaign. Whether you realize it or not will be another story.
When we get to about 8th level you'll feel like your character has a history. Erde will feel very real to you. Your character will have friends, family, and you may even be married.
My current game group has gone from first level nothings to being 9th or 10th level Barons or Baroness' with spouses and even children.
So this is the kind of game we can have. If you want it to stay simple dungeon delvers and adventurers who go around amassing wealth and power by killing and destroying things, it can be that too.
I prefer having more depth than that, though. Its ultimately up to how you guys want to play, though.
Since its 20,000 I suggest "Captain Nemo" as his title. Beyond the obvious connection, he is one who sails on his own terms and ignores those he doesn't agree with...confident in his journey and goals.
Sounds obvious to me! -Gm Michael
Grand Knight Commander of the Society.
