On the Keen thing: The DMG has a table each for Melee and Ranged weapon special abilities. Keen is not on the latter, most likely as the
weapon being keen doesn't make sense, as it does nothing but blunt damage on its own. (Much like a huntsdwarf with his crossbow training up his hammer skill). The Keen would apply to projectiles, which is also what the Keen Edge spell says. At least, that's what I'd rule.
... Anyway, yeah, I dunno how late it is for me to drop in and add my two cents, but I'm a fairly new DM who's been running some friends through various hackneyed adventures via IRC and, more recently,
Maptool. It's kind of like OpenRPG, only in my opinion, better. I dunno who's gonna be doing the DM, but they might be interested in checking it out. And also speaking of handling such things on-line, there are a number of nifty sites (
Mythweavers being my personal favorite) for handling character sheets. They can be modified by multiple people (consensually of course), the obvious choices being the relevant player and the DM. Naturally, that may not be preferable for one reason or another, but the option is there. It also occurred to me at some point during typing that, the format may be more of a Play by Post / e-mail thing, which is an equally viable set-up.
Either way, if whoever winds up doing the DMing wants a crash course (or inept explanation, as the case may be) on Maptool, I'd be happy to offer one. Again, I dunno how you're planning to do it via MSN, but I found it to be an unbelievable headache when I was using IRC to run games. I'd offer my services as DM in general, but I'm new, only have access to the core books, and have a campaign I need to be channeling my primary creative energies to.
As a matter of fact, me stumbling across this thread was the result of a train of thought beginning "Hrm, I remember a DF DnD game, wonder if there's one of those going on so I can play the game for once." So, needless to say, I'd be quite happy to step in, in the unhappy event that somebody drops out. I've added Shadow_archmagi via Meebo, with the rather-hastily created login of
knightofeonia@gmail.com, and I'll try to keep up with this thread.
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