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[Shoruke]

Well guess what you guys, University just started up for all of us Bay12 geeks, which means that everyone's schedules just changed. The old games are dying while we all ponder our new day-to-day schedules. However, now that we all know how our lives are going to be organized for the next few months, this is the optimal time to start a new game.
Wow. Just look at the timestamp on this post. That blurb was written a long time ago. This game is oooooold.

So how about a really big D&D 3.5 game, you guys?!? Maptools is a good medium, it comes with all sorts of useful features, so we'll use that.

The basic premise of a Western Marches-style game, is that there is a big map with a lot of stuff in it for you to travel to and explore. I've also got a lot of plot set up, but I've made it so that the antagonists will give you lots of time to plunder unrelated dungeons if you want to. Bear in mind that the player characters are basically the only adventurer-type people in the world; there are traders who move between towns, but other than that you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone insane enough to leave the safety of society.

The basic heuristic is, the farther you get from home, the scarier the world gets. Unless you guys stick around the city and get involved in assassinations or smuggling or something, in which case, Challenge Rating is basically a crapshoot. Bear in mind that this means that yes, you CAN wander into the super-hard areas accidentally if you're not paying attention, and you'll die. The rest of the world is staying safely in their walled cities for a reason. You were warned.

And now, for some rules and suchlike...

Spoiler: New to D&D? (click to show/hide)

Feel free to join! Your Game Master (that's me), and probably your fellow players as well, will help you make your character and figure out how to play the game. If you own a copy of the Player's Handbook, awesome, otherwise you will want to do some extensive reading on the SRD. I hope this doesn't scare you off, but D&D is a BIG, BIG GAME, and requires a good bit of reading. You won't have to memorize the monsters or the spell lists, but you'll need to have an understanding about the differences between race, class, skills, feats, and spells.

There is a handy-dandy character generator here, which you can use to make a character using only the races, classes, and feats found in the Player's Handbook. I use it frequently myself (only for the point-buy stuff, but still).
You also might want to check out Mythweavers, where you can create a character sheet online.

If you're considering being a healer for your first-ever D&D character, or you're a moderately-experienced player looking to play your first healer, consider playing a Favored Soul instead of a Cleric. Playing a Cleric can be overwhelming, because you can prepare only a few spells selected from every cleric spell available to your level. Favored Souls can be found in the book Complete Divine; if you don't own it, PM me and I'll send you the class description.

Spoiler: me as a DM (click to show/hide)

-This is going to be my first game DMing. JSYK.
-I subscribe to the "rule of fun". If the rules for a particular action are For The Lame, I will change them.
-World-building and character development can be plenty lots of fun, if you do it right. I'll do my best to build the game world nicely without totally grinding the action to a halt.
-I possess the banhammer. I'm completely open to arguing about what you can and cannot do with your character choices (after all, you picked those feats for a reason), but I reserve the right to say "I just now realized this feat is overpowered, pick a different one" or "normally, the rules say this happens... but in this particular circumstance, this other thing is going to happen." If that happens, sorry, I know it's going to kinda mess you up a little, but the argument just ended. If it's any consolation, I'm probably doing it because you need the challenge. If I banhammer one of your feats and render several of your other character choices worthless by doing so, you can ask to change those too.
-I require access to your character sheet, and I must be able to view it in real time. Mythweavers and The Tangled Web have good character sheet services, so please use one of those or show me where else you are storing your sheet. I may need to ask you "save your Mythweavers sheet, I need to see something current".
-Want to involve your character's backstory in the game? PM me, and we'll talk. Just remember, we're playing a game involving several people, and all of them are as important as you. Any character arcs have to be pertinent to the whole group (even if it's just "hey guys, can we go to this haunted burial mound and dig up my grandfather's sword? There's other treasure and stuff too."), and your personal business can't interfere too much with the group's progress. Also remember that, while roleplaying (and the free exp that comes from it) is important, try not to take up too much time with it. We have other people to entertain and more quests to do here, people, move along.

Spoiler: Characters (click to show/hide)

This is going to be a moderate-high-power, medium-loot campaign. Characters are generated using 32 point-buy, and the starting level and gold for new players is displayed near the Participants section below. All PCs receive the Heroic Durability feat for free, which grants you an extra 10 hitpoints (your first few challanges are likely to be tougher than usual, but your wizard won't be one-shotted by the kobolds or goblins or whatever). You may have up to 2 traits and up to 1 flaw.

As for sourcebooks, feel free to use anything from core (Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and the Monster Manuals), the Complete Adventurer, Complete Scoundrel, Unearthed Arcana, or the Tome of Battle. I haven't read very many of the other books extensively, so you'll have to specifically request things from other books that you want to use, but I'll probably okay it unless it seems overpowered.

Certain classes get some equipment for free: wizards get their first spellbook for free, wizards and sorcerers get their Spell Components Pouch free, rogues get free thieves' tools, and clerics start with a free holy symbol. Familiars are NOT free; you must obtain the money and spend the time to acquire one after the game starts.

Spoiler: Miscellany, Tips and Tricks (click to show/hide)

-Food, burden, and travel conditions are enforced in this game. If your wizard somehow has 6 strength, carrying just basic adventuring equipment might be enough to weigh you down. (consider investing in a Handy Haversack.) If your plan is to ride for a week, raid some ruins and then ride back to town when you're done, you should bring at least 15 days worth of food, and probably hire some guards to protect your wagon from bears or whatever while you're in the dungeon. (yes, low-level guards will be available for hire, but they will have restricted use)
-Character Journals! Sounds lame, but bear with me. After each session, the players that joined in will have an opportunity to write an in-character journal (or Sonnet for Bards, or a poem for people with Craft (Wordsmithing), or whatever). Yes, it has to be in-character. Well-done entries will be awarded with roleplaying experience between sessions, based on how close you are to the party's average level.
-Backstories are required... they don't have to be long, but they can be if you want. Again, if you want to involve your backstory in the game then we can talk about it, but we can't have the game focus on just you.
-For people who can't make it to each session, that's fine. My rule for inconsistent attendance is "Who cares." We won't even bother with the "they were there the whole time but weren't contributing or eating food", there is to be none of this "hurry up and get through the dungeon and get back to town so I can join", I don't care for it. If you miss a session, you can still come back for the next one. If you join late in the session, *pop* and you're in the game (starting at the beginning of the next round of combat). If you miss too many sessions and start to lag WAY behind in experience points, I'll probably give you some free levels to catch you up, but you'll be behind on loot. The same applies for people who join after the game starts; we just ignore your previous lack of existence, and you now exist. There will be a gp amount and new-joiners level posted below.
-LA Buyoff is available. Since the starting level is now higher than one, people can use races with Level Adjustments, so... yeah.
-Constitution is not a dump stat. Attempts to prove this wrong are extremely likely to fail, and meet with death. (Van the Monk managed to avoid death with 6 con, but his player gave up on him since his defensive build required him to roleplay very restrictively and he had very little offensive power)
-the less-commonly-used skills will be helpful to have. Since food is being enforced and navigation is relevant, the Survival skill will be useful (on days when the clerics aren't present to magic some free food up, anyway  ). Gather Information can point you in the direction of stuff to do, and Appraise can save you a lot of money on Identify spells (which cost a hundred coins a pop, ouch, that'll add up).
-again, you can hire people to guard your wagon while you're in a dungeon doing stuff. However, they can't be brought into actual combat; they won't participate in Random Encounters, they won't enter dungeons, and they can't help you navigate or find food. You'll have to pay for their rations, too, or use your social skills to convince them that you can provide for them on the way. This is relevant primarily because waterskins, travel rations, and camp-making supplies can be quite cumbersome for low-strength characters, plus if you use a method of transportation you can't carry into a dungeon, you'll want someone to guard it.
-You guys can build/buy yourselves a base once you've worked up enough money. I'm pretty sure one or more of my books has rules and tables for that, if not then I'll make them up and it's no biggy.
-Sessions are typically held at 11:00 PM GMT, on Saturdays... however, scheduling anything recreational is hard when one works during the university semester, so some sessions may have a different time.

To play, you will require:
Maptools (version 1.3.b76; this is not the latest version).
To join the game (when we're in session), go to file -> Connect to Server, and select East Marches from the list of game names. The password is herpadurp. Take special note of the odd spelling, and remember that when you first join the game, you just poof into existence and nobody questions it.
I'm proud to say that we don't need Hamachi anymore either, since I have port forwarding set up.

Spoiler: Rulings (click to show/hide)

(someday, I'm really going to need to go through the thread and my chatlogs and update this section, it should be waaaay bigger than this)
-Psionics are not being used in this campaign, because I am not familiar with them... However, by popular request, I'm considering introducing them partway through the campaign.
-Favored Souls (from Complete Divine) are going to have the DC of their spells be 10+Spell Level+ Charisma modifier, instead of using wisdom like it says to in the book, because that's just weird. All the other spellcasting classes only have one stat used for their spellcasting.
-Cure and Inflict Wounds spells are considered short-range spells, instead of touch. So the range is 25 feet, plus 5 feet per caster level.
-The Natural Spell feat is gone. Playing as a spellcasting bear, with no combat penalties beyond being unable to communicate verbally with your teammates, is just cheap.
-The Leadership feat is out, because it basically lets you play as several characters at once. It also shifts the focus away from the PCs and towards the one character's army, which isn't fair to everyone else who doesn't have the feat.
-Artificers are primarily an NPC class in this game; PCs can enter it as a severely underpowered, time-consuming Prestige Class if they really want to. The prerequisites are the ability to cast fourth-level arcane spells, at least 10 ranks in a craft skill, and 13 Intelligence.
-A thistledown suit (armor enhancement from Races of the Wild) can be bought in Rivershire, but it will cost 450 coins, not 250.
-Stinging Polyp armor is unavailable in the Civilized Lands, due to a complete lack of temperate oceans on the floating continent.
-Blue Ice (special equipment construction material from Frostburn) costs 1.5x as much to purchase in the Civilized Lands compared to the prices listed in Frostburn. Also, in addition to the -1 to initiative and reflex saves, you must make a DC 12 fortitude save every 10 minutes or take 1d4 nonlethal cold damage. Cold Resistance 1 negates the initiative and reflex penalties, Cold Resistance of 4 or higher (or cold immunity) eliminates the armor's penalties altogether. If you fall unconscious due to the cold damage, your armor starts dealing lethal cold damage to you.
-You cannot use Nightsticks (an item that gives Clerics extra Turn Undead attempts) to power feats. You CAN power your feats using the turning attempts provided by Domain powers, the Extra Turning feat, or a high charisma score.
-the Massive Damage Rule (if you take 50 damage, fortitude save or die) is not in effect. I reserve the right to put in a variant where massive damage will cause someone to become shaken or something, but it shouldn't be relevant for a while.
-Gold Nagas are approved

Spoiler: database and in-universe known trivia (click to show/hide)

-Rivershire, capitol and trade center of the Civilized Lands, has a policy against Goblins, born of a few thousand years of every single Goblin being convicted of something. Hobgoblins are not included. As such, Goblin characters will need to be disguised or hidden when in Rivershire, to avoid being thrown out by the guards, and harrassed by every single civilian.
-The Dwarves of Grelotis Rinde live near a Kobold settlement. The last time you were in the area, the Dwarves and Kobolds weren't fighting openly, but they weren't exactly trading smiles either.
-There is a Kobold Cave just north of Grelotis Rinde. Between the surface and the Kobolds' actual dwelling space, there is an offshoot tunnel which leads east... for several hundred miles. It is soul-crushing to walk through, but it will lead you to the Suntide Desert without incident.
-There is a story about a way to get up and over the southern mountain east of Rivershire on a boat... but it's an old story, and there's no proof.
-Supposedly, it's a straightforward enough task to get to the Suntide Desert by simply walking through the Goblin Forest. Be wary of Goblins, and the Fey. And bear in mind that anything bigger than a horse is going to be difficult to get through the area.
-In the Suntide Desert, there are cacti with giant pink flowers on top. The flowers are great for making into face cream... which, in addition to making your skin smooth, also helps prevent dessication damage.
-The Mayor of the city of Cliffmoor (a mining town on the northwest edge of the Suntide Desert) is a skilled mapmaker, and will trade to you a map of the Sundtide Desert area (complete with some common knowledge about landmarks) for a pittance. He will also return favours if you bring him a map of an area he doesn't know about.
-The primary method of transportation across the Suntide Desert is sandfliers: they're a lot like boats, except they are designed to work on sand and other flat ground (including grasslands). Smaller ones are typically wood, bigger ones (typically used by traders and military) are usually metal and have mounted weapons. They are powered by emeralds, and consequently emeralds can be sold for a large amount of cash where sandfliers are made.
-Cliffmoor was founded as a mining community, but now also has large, efficient metalworking facilities. Metallic equipment purchased there will be slightly cheaper, and can be built faster. There are also more Sandflier options available in Cliffmoor than anywhere else.
-The city of Ibaea, formerly a religious hotspot with several major temples, is now in ruins due to having been attacked by a dragon. There's lots of loot for the taking there... but also lots of monsters.
-The city of Sandsedge is totally not ripped off from Order of the Stick, and is known for having not one but several mage guilds, so almost all of your arcane spell needs can be met there (for the right price of course. mage guilds are businesses, after all). Also, due to the recent destruction of Ibaea, some divine casters are desperate for work, and will offer you some services (healing, mostly) for a reduced fee.
-There is an Oasis near the middle of the Suntide Desert. It has three primary purposes: As a resting spot for travellers, as a tourist trap for almost every cross-desert traveller, and a place for merchants to hock their wares. You can find some random, interesting goods for sale there sometimes.
-Eriden, capital city of the Suntide Desert, sports a large military, and this is reflected in the local economy. There are a wider range of weapons available for purchase, and the local government may even be willing to provide funding if you present a promising idea for offensive magics or enchantments.
-Cities in the Suntide Desert are built in carefully-chosen places; namely, places where there is comparatively little sand between the surface, and the giant underground lake. There are also many tunnel system under the desert; almost every city's water-retrieval pathway intersects at least one of them, and they are all infested with monsters.
-Purpleguy (the one who keeps delivering speeches and encounters through the orbs) is named Rulqas.

Current starting level: 4, with 5400 starting gold.

Spoiler: Participants (click to show/hide)

B12 user name	Character's name	experience
Barbarossa	Maelrigar Desraktu	23614
Barbarossa	Brick Von Sizzleblitz	7320
The Fool	Loreat	6131
RAM	Mystellar Traverius	21283
RedWarrior0	Ethan Earthwalker	20874
Kogan Loloklam	Stihe Clearwater	8800
Syvarris	Vaba Jidoiit	17825
Theoboldi	Adale Ightbur	11956
Dwarmin	Loaw Kaldaka	11326
Haika	Lith Cadulith	8851
Araph	Argentius	8670
Edio	Solace Evenguarde	6250
Zako	Zanian Lightwind	8931
Criptfied	Eglath Steelwall	8601

Spoiler: Quest Log (click to show/hide)

Kenku problem: solved? Left to the guards, at any rate.
Map/Sketch the eastern part of the continent: continuous
Find the desert city: complete (report to Tarlach the Librarian in Rivershire)
Obtain the Eternium: not started
Bring back a purple-and-pink-flowered cactus: cactus found, report to Tarlach
clear the Cliffmoor Caverns and return the 2 emeralds: complete
Deliver the notes from the ruined Ibaea mage guild to the Sandsedge branch: complete
Help the Ibaean Cavern war effort: complete?
   -kill the panthers that are mauling civilians: complete
find the Tower of Ascension: not started
rout out the bandits northeast of Eriden: in progress

Spoiler: Group Inventory (click to show/hide)

-party coinage pool: 1555 gp, 77 sp, 10572 cp
-desert clothing (everyone receives 1 for free)
-an endless supply of meta-paper; you can make all the sketches and notes and maps you want, without worrying about encumbrance or volume or such natter

The group possesses one each of:
-a stasis bag (can't see into it, holds everything in it in stasis, weighs 2 lbs regardless of contents, can hold up to 8 cubic feet of stuff)
-a modified Find City gem (range 50 miles, gives direction and distance (to the nearest 10 mi), once per 3 days)
-a geography textbook (allows untrained Knowledge:Geography checks, gives those with ranks in the skill a +2 bonus)

Spoiler: The Dead and the Gone (click to show/hide)

B12 user name	Character's name	experience	reason
Wolfchild	Eavor	988	not seen in forever
Leafsnail	Alrad	1879	not seen in forever
Willfor	Randress	585	not seen in forever
Pillow_Killer	Finny	870	eaten by a GCS
Tibbles	Caex	200	not seen in forever
Baradine	Baradine	220	not seen in forever
Araph	Arrus	2670	last seen Feb 26, 2011
Jusman	Gedin	1350	last seen April 16, 2011
asfghn	Edmund	1350	last seen April 2, 2011
Grek	Mathaf (deceased)	1794	killed by Uskton Slek while trying to push him off a sandflier
Theoboldi	Uskton Slek	6625	Has Gone Insane and left the group
The Fool	Felrook Charbo Darkstone Jakabin Galveron Rush	4744	retired
Shonus	Corina Chillblood	7914	last seen May 28, 2011
Grek	Kimko Lockweaver	6948	last seen August 9, 2011
Angle	Marla	3450	last seen June 20, 2011
Dsarker	Kenneth Leeandre	4636	not seen in forever
Saxon	Tenpros	3743	not seen in forever
Happery	Tallulah	4729	last seen June 20, 2011
Mission0	Nael Remmington	8587	Last seen June 27, 2011
Dwarmin	Andre Clearwater	11985	Retired by player
King of the Weasels	Alistair Waylander	3800	last seen August 9, 2011
The Fool	Anderson[/url]		retired in favor of a joke character
Vherid	Vherid Direhv	3925	not seen in forever

[wolfchild]

well i would be, but it seems the times ure available to DM, dont coincide with times im available to play (I hate it when that happens)

[RAM]

Want to try the game but don't have a character build? I am putting some together here...

My Vermin Mods!

Spoiler: long ago... (click to show/hide)

I think that I can make it, and I would hate to miss out on what is, theoretically, a continuation of the old Neruz group...

I will probably try some sort of spellcasting cleric with the magic domain for free identify spells. I might look into some sort of small use for the divine metamagic feat, like rapid spell or something, also domain spontaneity or whatever, that lets me trade turn attempts to cast more domain spells. I had a character once that was a dwarven cleric/thaumaturgist with the travel, and, ummm, maybe portal domain. magic domain is probably more fun. What sort of deities do we have access to?

Urgent!!! Need trope links that apply to each character!!!
Akigagk: Olli Orarmors Gon: Male, Human, face/spellcaster, 12 con
Barbarossa the Seal God: Maelrigar Desraktu: Male, Water Orc, face/damage dealer/melee/support caster 16con, Honour Before Reason, Proud Warrior Race Guy, Noble Savage, Difficult But Awesome, Magic Knight, The Blood Knight
Doomblade187: Destival Dustril: Male, Desert Elf, Debuff, 10con, The Exile
Grek: Mathaf : Male, Human, melee(grappler)/spellcaster, 14con
Lord Shonus: Corina Chillblood: Human, tradesman/debuff/artillery, 15con
Mission0: Nael Remmington: Half-Elf, tradesman/debuff, 12con
Moghopper: Dak Shadowmane: Male, Human, face/acrobat/buff, 10con
RAM: Mysteller Traverious: Female, Grey Elf, brain/summoner, 10con
Robocorn: Demrist Steelbane: Male, Dwarf, brain/meatshield/melee/support caster, 16con
The Fool: John 'Aeraelavel' Westman: Male, Human, explorer/damage dealer/melee, 14con, Good Is Not Nice, Honour Before Reason, Some Call Me Tim
wolfchild: Eavor: Male, Shifter, tradesman/healer/melee, 14con, Proud Warrior Race Guy, Raized By Wolves, The Berserker, Nature Hero, Noble Savage

RAM messes with someone's original class

Spoiler: Superblurb about the world: (click to show/hide)

You live on the floating continent of Arcadia (which uses this trope, not this one). Nobody knows HOW it floats, or WHY it floats, or how the water gets to the top of the mountains to make the rivers, but it floats. There are all sorts of legends about other continents, but over time, these legends have faded into myth, because there's just no way to prove them; not safely, anyway.

Arcadia is a dangerous place. On the west side of the continent, are the Civlized Lands: the humans, dwarves, elves, and other peaceful races enjoy relative peace, but the towns are walled and guarded; outside of the cities, you're on your own against a harsh world. There are only four major cities: The human city of Landsedge, which lies right on the far west side of Arcadia (hence the name); the Dwarven halls of Grelòtis Rinde, where the civilized races purchase their metals, gems, and stone; the elven city of Corwyl; and the multi-racial trade city of Rivershire, where even kobolds, goblins, and the like can make a civilized living... if they don't do anything to anger the downright draconian guards. The four towns are connected via roads, which are relatively safe; bandits are rare, and the wildlife has learned to stay away from them.

Away from civilization, though, is a harsh, harsh world. Kobolds, and occasionally other cave horrors, continually harass Grelòtis Rinde, which is now the only Dwarven city that still belongs to Dwarves (there were others, but they have long since fallen). Following the edge of land south from Corwyl leads to the Marshes of Mire; trying to walk through them would be hard enough even without the monsters, which spring out of the muck and (as far as anyone knows) eat you. The people of Rivershire once tried to look for more space and resources by heading east, through the forested pass between the mountains; they met with heavy resistance from goblins, orcs, and even some wandering ghosts, and now the East Road Project has been abandoned. Even in the plains of the civilized lands, the wildlife are not to be underestimated, because any species that has survived this long has learned to hunt in packs.

The civilized peoples have learned their lesson; expansion leads to death. You, however, are of a different mindset. You start your adventure in the Rivershire Library, the biggest library (of the three that exist) in the Civilized Lands, in response to an ad put out by a rather excitable librarian...



This is the world as far as "the civilized people" know it. Color generally indicates there's something of interest there. Sorry if it's a little hard to see due to size...
Orange spots depict civilized towns; from north to south they are Grelòtis Rinde, Landsedge, Rivershire, and Corwyl. The red spots are known threats (from north to south, they are the Deep Caves, and the Goblin Forests). The purple spots are the Marshes of Mire. The blue lines are rivers (useful for navigating), and the green spots are the Goblin Forest (which is more interesting than the black-and-white elf forest).
NOTE: this map is NOT to scale, it's a general indicator of direction and environment area and that's about it.

RAM requests some cleric spells from spell compendium
Shoruke okays some spells

Spoiler: modified spells (click to show/hide)

p077 ebon eyes: Needs to be partially whittled down; make it a level 2 spell
p189 sign: I'm reducing the duration to 10 minutes + 1 min/level
p027 binding winds: The Duration of your concentration on this spell is now limited to 2 rounds/level.
p048 close wounds: NOT approved
p134 living undeath: add in a -2 penalty to dexterity and you can use it
p089 favourable sacrifice: duration is nerfed to 10 mins/level

more spell verification

some macros

Kogan's Kompendium

my spell, first draft.
My second spell, after drinking something odd...

RAM has been struck by a fey mood. RAM has constructed some flaws and a trait

[Shoruke]

well i would be, but it seems the times ure available to DM, dont coincide with times im available to play (I hate it when that happens)

Well, my schedule is slightly dynamic. I'm available to run a game on any weekend evening, and a few other random evenings in the week... but if you live in, say, central Europe, the beginning of my "evening" is the beginning of your "It's three in the carping morning, leave me alone you tosser". Your profile page says that you're only an hour ahead of me, though, so... stay posted, I guess.

I think that I can make it, and I would hate to miss out on what is, theoretically, a continuation of the old Neruz group...

I will probably try some sort of spellcasting cleric with the magic domain for free identify spells. I might look into some sort of small use for the divine metamagic feat, like rapid spell or something, also domain spontaneity or whatever, that lets me trade turn attempts to cast more domain spells. I had a character once that was a dwarven cleric/thaumaturgist with the travel, and, ummm, maybe portal domain. magic domain is probably more fun. What sort of deities do we have access to?

The Identify spell has a costly material component... some light wine with a 100 gp pearl in it, purchasable at-cost in any major trade center. It'll cost a bit more to hire NPCs to Identify stuff for you. As for deities, take your pick and run it by me, make sure you can justify it based on alignment... deities generally don't screw your game up too much one way or the other. I'm even open to letting deities have more domains than they have listed, just for flexibility.

Also, that reminds me: no using nightsticks to power your "extend a turning attempt to win the game forever" feats. You CAN, however, use the turning attempts provided by domains like Air.

[RAM]

My reading of the rules is that it is an arcane material component that divine casters need not pay. It is, of course, fine if you don't like it like that...
Components, Identify, Raise Dead(which requires a material component from divine casters)

P.S.
 Races! Can we have anything from the S.R.D. with 1 H.D. and +0 L.A.?

[Akigagak]

Spell Compendium, please?

New, and most importantly, balanced spells. 90% of all the overpowered spells are in the PHB, and the SpC is just good stuff. Heck, I'd quite like a game where Core spells were completely banned. Except for Evocation, because that's just blasting.

[Heron TSG]

I can't do Saturdays for quite a while yet, and my Sundays are taken by another D&D game, but what about Monday? Wednesday? I might be able to do Sundays orThursdays if I learn how to play two games at once.

In any case, I'd love to play with this group again.

[tehstefan]

I'd be interested, yes I would be. I can probably play two games, and well, I can't drop this game,  not yet.

[Shoruke]

My reading of the rules is that it is an arcane material component that divine casters need not pay. It is, of course, fine if you don't like it like that...
Components, Identify, Raise Dead(which requires a material component from divine casters)

P.S.
 Races! Can we have anything from the S.R.D. with 1 H.D. and +0 L.A.?

Okay, I read my Player's Handbook (the actual honest-to-god BOOK, even), and yes, you can cast Identify from the Cleric's Spell Domain without a costly material component.

As for the race... blar, Level Adjustment and that stuff can be confusing...
Normally, your racial Hit Dice contribute to your Effective Character Level, and a race with 1 HD and +0 LA must have at least one class level, which would make you effectively level 2. I'll have to see the race in question to make a ruling.

Spell Compendium, please?

New, and most importantly, balanced spells. 90% of all the overpowered spells are in the PHB, and the SpC is just good stuff. Heck, I'd quite like a game where Core spells were completely banned. Except for Evocation, because that's just blasting.

I'd tend to disagree with you on the bit about the PHB spells, but not vehemently or anything. Anyway, we'll leave them in, because they're some of the most fundamental spells in a caster's repository. As for the Spell Compendium... I own a copy of the book, but I haven't read it, so you'll have to specifically request spells you want to use from it. I'll probably say "yes", though. (Also, providing a page number is being nice to your GM, but I suppose it's not strictly necessary).

I can't do Saturdays for quite a while yet, and my Sundays are taken by another D&D game, but what about Monday? Wednesday? I might be able to do Sundays orThursdays if I learn how to play two games at once.

Again, my schedule changes slightly week-by-week, but yes, I can host on Wednesday evenings. I have a lab section on Wednesdays which runs too late to let me get to work in time for the last shift, but doesn't cut too deeply into my evening.

Also, the character journals are here primarily to help deal with attendance problems: even if you can only make it to half the sessions or something, you can still keep up with what's happening in the game.

[Akigagak]

My reading of the rules is that it is an arcane material component that divine casters need not pay. It is, of course, fine if you don't like it like that...
Components, Identify, Raise Dead(which requires a material component from divine casters)

P.S.
 Races! Can we have anything from the S.R.D. with 1 H.D. and +0 L.A.?

Okay, I read my Player's Handbook (the actual honest-to-god BOOK, even), and yes, you can cast Identify from the Cleric's Spell Domain without a costly material component.

As for the race... blar, Level Adjustment and that stuff can be confusing...
Normally, your racial Hit Dice contribute to your Effective Character Level, and a race with 1 HD and +0 LA must have at least one class level, which would make you effectively level 2. I'll have to see the race in question to make a ruling.

Humans are 1HD.  It's replaced by your first Class Level.

Spell Compendium, please?

New, and most importantly, balanced spells. 90% of all the overpowered spells are in the PHB, and the SpC is just good stuff. Heck, I'd quite like a game where Core spells were completely banned. Except for Evocation, because that's just blasting.

I'd tend to disagree with you on the bit about the PHB spells, but not vehemently or anything. Anyway, we'll leave them in, because they're some of the most fundamental spells in a caster's repository. As for the Spell Compendium... I own a copy of the book, but I haven't read it, so you'll have to specifically request spells you want to use from it. I'll probably say "yes", though. (Also, providing a page number is being nice to your GM, but I suppose it's not strictly necessary).

Cool, but I didn't mean that 90% of the PHB spells are broken, but that it's where most of the really broken spells (Time Stop, Celertiy, et al) come from.

Now to decide on a concept. Thinking Halfling wizard, but still have to decide on a school to focus on. Possibly Evocation? Might be fun to play a blaster.

[Robocorn]

Depending on when the sessions are, I could be up for this. 32 point buy? sounds cool.

Is Dwarf Duskblade an appropriate character?

[wolfchild]

actualy dwarmin, Im GMT +10, and my mornings (you're evenings) are free on wednesdays, and somewhat free fridays, but there is a definate limit on the friday ones

IN the unlikly event that those times are ok I will make a character

[Jake]

Anyone got any insights on just how useable Maptools is on a low-end system? My experiences with Java-based gaming on this rig have been bad.

[RAM]

I believe that single hit die races can replace their first hit die with a class level. Ogres have a racial hit dice entry on their 'as characters' entry where as kobolds do not. I know that there is a rules reference for this, but finding it would be a chore. Though I expect that I could find it eventually if you want me to...

Anyone got any insights on just how useable Maptools is on a low-end system? My experiences with Java-based gaming on this rig have been bad.

Depends upon what you mean, I find that maptools just crashes with no warning, I think that there is something wrong with my java... But I have never had much problem with it except for some long load times when on a slow internet connection. I suggest that you fire it up and see how it goes.

[Shoruke]

Maptools is not resource-extensive, as long as you can run Java stuff on it, you're good.

And I looked up the 1HD thing... Just build the character normally, only your level 1 Hit Die is going to be based on your race, not your class.

Also, I've been forgetting to mention, CrystalKeep is a really useful reference for if you want more character options than just the core books, but you don't own any sourcebooks.