Welcome to A Game of Commoners. In this you will each play a first level commoner, you will try to make a living and survive in the world. I will DM this adventure. Play will be using 3.5. All non campaign setting specific WotC sources are allowed. If you deem anything exploitable run it by me first. Cite all your non-core sources. I reserve the right to veto anything I deem to unbalancing.
The Rules:
Character Creation
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Your characters ability scores are made using the 15 point buy method. You may be any LA +0 non-monster race without any templates. You start with 20 GP to buy your starting equipment. You begin with max HP for your first hit die. (4+Con mod) You may take up to to flaws and two traits. Any alignments are allowed. Cite where all your non-core feats, races, items, etc. are from. Post your character here but don't post your alignment here, PM it to me. PM me your backstory or at least basic goals, you may post any/all of your backstory in this thread.
Advancement
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You will gain EXP as normal and be able to advance. However you may only advance in a class you already have levels in or you unlock another class. You unlock a class by doing the role it does. Ex: Joe the commoner is fighting and tries to solve problems with force, when he levels up he can take a level in warrior. You don't take multi-classing penalties. You will only get a class slightly more powerful than the one you got it from. You will get average HP per HD after your first. HINT look at the skills, feats etc. that a class you want would use if you want it.
In Game
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You will declare what you do for the day. Anything you do that you don't want to in front of the others do by PM with me. I will state the interesting events that happen that day. I expect to be able to be on ever day excepts for Tuesday. I would like to know how commonly you can be on to determine the speed we will play at.
I will be accepting up to 10 players.
Player: GnomeNinjas as Elbone the Nice
Player: MasterOfFates as Maglor the Contemplative (When will you fix your Char?)
Player: hobbitkniver as Keharn Player: Imbasel as John Woods the forger
Player: Dr.Epic as Regdab the Salty
Player: Chriscane as ? (Character Creation)
Player: Hazzardevil as Herbert Player: The Big Orc as Seth
Player: Jzadek as ? (Character Creation)
Player: Umbranar as Ethan Silverling
Backups:
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Keharn was born to an average elven family and grew up relatively normal. He was never very likeable as he was socially awkward and acted before thinking. When he grew to be older, he was given a bow by his father and he trained compulsively though his abilities were never exceptional. He grew jealous and embrassed by his frequent failures. Due to his town's customes, he could not be given an adult's bow until after going through a write of passage which he failed twice before losing his temper. He grabbed a knife and threatened the village elder unless he allowed him to skip the trials. He was still rejected and realized his failures. The others chased him out of town and he has never returned. After this event, he never picked up a bow again and he grew to place more importance of such things like tradition.
Ok so this is my character info post, sheet is here then
Backstory:
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Greg was raised by his grandfather, an old ex-solider, on his farm about a days travel from the closest villiage who was strict with greg and who tried to instill a sense of disipline into him in a futile attempt at preventing greg from wandering off into the surrounding country side. It was on these meandering trips into the wilderness around his grandfathers farm that Greg taught himself about nature and all its subtle nuances that his grandfather, for all that he had grown up and spent most of his life living there, was oblivious to.
It was after returning from one of these trips to find his grandfather laying unconcious on the ground that Gregs grandfather finally told greg about his mother anne, apparently she was charmed by a passing stranger who spent the night at the farm, a stranger possessed of an unearthly aura that could draw the affections of everyone around him and who seemed quite taken by anne. After serving dinner for the three of them his grandfather went to bed and when he woke up the next morning both the stranger and anne were gone, although he search for her his grandfather didn't see anne again until three years later when she returned out of the blue heavily pregnant, after giving birth to Greg anne stayed only long enough to recover before disappearing once again leaving greg to be raised by her father.
His grandfather never recovered from what ever caused him to fall unconcious that day and passed away about a week later, greg stay with him the whole time carefully tending to him in his final days. After that greg left the farm taking his grandfathers old spear as a walking stick and hitching the farms donkey to the old cart in the barn which he loaded with spare food and blankets before setting out into the world, unfortunetly after about a months travel the donkey died by the side of the road leaving greg with a cart he can't move only a mile from town.
Goals:
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Greg wants to understand his Heritage and the nature spirits he's instinctively drawn to, he feels that the nearby forest could hold the answers he's be seeking so plans to explore it soon. Eventually Greg wants to find a place for himself in the world as he always felt out of place growing up.
Whats your take on player deaths? In a game like this where we are so weak, it's quite likely that if we get hit, we would be killed in a single shot and quite unlikely we'll have any sort of magical ressurection or healing.
At this point, make a new character, not enough has happened yet for it to make much of a difference. Later on, it might change. I'm still trying to figure out how to do it once you unlock new classes.
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You unlock classes by trying to do what they do. Think of it like a skill tree of classes. Your choices IC about how you solve problems leads to a class that functions that way. You'll unlock classes somewhat more powerful, so no commoner to wizard, it might something like be commoner to expert (skills: knowledge, spellcraft, Concentration etc.) and to adapt to wizard. I explained this in the recruitment thread though i didn't explain as well as i could.
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Get a free account on an image hosting website (I use photobucket)
Upload it to said website and go through whatever other BS they want from you.
Go to the page where your image is placed and get the code. For photobucket, its the box that says IMG code. If you click on it, it will automatically copy.
then copy-paste onto the forum.
Using my avatar to check that I'm not missing something...
Maybe we could get to redo stats every time we level but we get more overall for the point buy. Then when we get to a reasonable number, we keep those stats forever. This could also show how a persons priorities changed if say they raise their Wisdom and lower strength or how their obsessive studying has been impacting their health when con is lowered to make room for more intelligence.
Last edited by hobbitkniver : 12-15-2011 at 04:57 PM.
Okay, for increasing stats you will gain 2 stat points per level up from level 2-6. That way at 6th level you will have 25 point buy stats and likely a PC class. after that it's as normal.
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Friends don't let friends use 3rd-party sourcebooks. This is why.
Maybe we could get to redo stats every time we level but we get more overall for the point buy. Then when we get to a reasonable number, we keep those stats forever. This could also show how a persons priorities changed if say they raise their Wisdom and lower strength or how their obsessive studying has been impacting their health when con is lowered to make room for more intelligence.
Yeah, I'm kind of wishing my Int was higher and I don't need that much Dex as I'm gonna try and avoid combat as much as possible.
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Okay, for increasing stats you will gain 2 stat points per level up from level 2-6. That way at 6th level you will have 25 point buy stats and likely a PC class. after that it's as normal.
I think Hazzardevil is if he gets a weapon he is proficient with, and Imbasel is decent. However they aren't here. I'll PM them because they haven't posted yet.
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