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[Solifuge]

Okay, okay... I guess I can get in this. I'll be playing a craven, opportunistic hunter (Ranger/Rogue).

Iituem, you might want to put up some resources for people to help build their characters too. d20SRD is a good place to reference material from online, if folks don't have any of the books.

Also, is the 24 Point Buy starting at 8 or 10?

[Iituem]

Starting at eight and... here is a point buy calculator.  Remember, I will be accepting the first four full character sheets (all skill, spell, stat and equipment issues dealt with, plus background and goals as requested).  I will only accept more than four characters if a character sheet has a very well thought out background and personality (in other words, well role played).

Yeah, archery exists.  Javelins are a bit more prevalent (Skirmishers, anyone?) but archery exists.  Composite bows aren't available to you, but I'll stretch it to say longbows are.  Horseback riding is also valid - but your horse counts as a 'tool' if you want one.

The druid changes are the same as all spellcaster changes and have to do with the source of magic.  I'll fill you in when your sheet is posted.

[Criptfeind]

Can I take craft (primative weapons)? Or flint knapping?

Also I have changed to barb for this, it seems to fit better.

Edit: Also if we take a bow do we get arrows and or more then one javalin?

[Iituem]

You can take such handy Craft skills as Craft(knapping), Craft(woodworking) etc, if you like.  Craft(bowyer) is a separate skill for making bows (from any material) but woodworking will suffice for arrows.  Or Craft(bonecarving).

On second thought, yes to Craft(prim weapons), which covers weapon-only uses of knap, woodwork and bonecarve, but not bowmaking.  Makes sense, since Craft(weaponry) applies to metal-forged weapons.  Craft(armourer) applies to metal armour (you probably don't have this unless you were from the settled lands), but you'll want Craft(leatherworking) for leather and hide.  Further tip:  If your plan is to use leather rather than hide armour, Craft(tanning) is your friend, though you can do that untrained.

To borrow from the Civ tech tree, the following techs are known to be available to you in the plains.

Fishing, the Wheel (but usually only applied to), Pottery, Animal Husbandry but not Agriculture*, Horseback Riding, Hunting/Spears/Javelins, Simple Archery**, Mysticism***, and Mining.




*Theoretically it's known, but your people aren't sedentary enough for this.
** Fairly rare.  Throwing spears are more common.
*** Druidic animism is the favoured 'religion' in the plains.  Gods are more favoured in the settled lands.


Edit:  If you get a bow, you may start with ten arrows.  If you choose a javelin, you start with three.

[Criptfeind]

Can I take the tools needed to make basic points as a tool? So basicly a buch of shards of flint, a hard rock or two, and a antler for that final perfection.

[Iituem]

Craft(toolmaking)?  Of course!

[Lordinquisitor]

Very interested. Would be my first D&D game. I hope there will still be place in 15 hours.^^

Is there some tool to help in the creation of a character sheet? All sheets i have seen so far in other threads were pretty detailed.

[Iituem]

I've known others to use Mythweavers for sheet generation, though I do tend to just make them up myself.

[Solifuge]

Tawe, Rogue (Human Male)
Age: 19
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 148 lbs.

Ability Scores:
STR 10
DEX 14 (+2)
CON 14 (+2)
INT 14 (+2)
WIS 10
CHA 10

HP: 8/8
AC: 12
Fort: +2
Refx: +4
Will: +0
Melee AB: +0
Range AB: +2
Initiative: +6

Feats:
Animal Affinity
Improved Initiative

Skill Name:                    | Ranks: | Bonus:
-------------------------------+--------+-------
Bluff (CHA):                   | 2      | 2
Climb (STR):                   | 2      | 2
Craft - Bowyer (INT):          | 2      | 4
Craft - Leatherworking (INT):  | 2      | 4
Craft - Tanning (INT):         | 2      | 4
Craft - Toolmaking (INT):      | 2      | 4
Craft - Trap (INT):            | 2      | 4
Craft - Woodworking (INT):     | 2      | 4
Escape Artist (DEX):           | 2      | 4
Handle Animal (CHA):           | 0      | 2
Hide (DEX):                    | 4      | 6
Jump (STR):                    | 2      | 2
Listen (WIS):                  | 2      | 2
Move Silently (DEX):           | 2      | 4
Perform - Flute (CHA):         | 2      | 2
Ride (DEX):                    | 0      | 4
Search (INT):                  | 2      | 4
Sense Motive (WIS):            | 2      | 2
Sleight of Hand (DEX):         | 2      | 4
Spot (WIS):                    | 2      | 2
Swim (STR):                    | 2      | 2
Tumble (DEX):                  | 4      | 6

Inventory:
Flint Dagger
Ornately Carved Bone Flute
Tame Wolf-Dog (Hunting trick-set: Attack, Down, Fetch, Heel, Seek, Track)

Spoiler: Trick Descriptions (click to show/hide)

Attack:  Attacks aparent enemies. May be directed to particular creatures, if able. Will normally only attack other animals, humanoids, monstrous humanoids, or giants.
Down:    Backs down from an aggressive action. If not used, it fights until it must flee, or its target is defeated.
Fetch:   Goes and gets something. If you don't point out a specific item, fetches a random object.
Heel:    Follows you closely, even to places it normally wouldn't go.
Seek:    Moves into an area and looks around for anything obviously alive or animate.
Track:   Tracks the scent presented to it, using the Scent ability.

Are there any other local languages I can choose from to start with? Also, if a trained animal is a bit much for a single Tool, I'd take a tame, untrained wolf-dog as well. Description and background stuffs forthcoming.

Since skills are going to be important, we should probably plan out the party's crafting and skill specialties to complement one another. I've got Tanning/Leatherworking, Animal Handling, Trapping, and other Hunting-oriented skills.

[Iituem]

Alright, I'll be lenient and expand it.  Other (bonus) languages you can have are Mountain, Forest and Coastal.  Dialects vary from clan to clan, village to village, but those rough groupings are enough to get by.

I'll allow the pet since it seems to be character-central.

Also, character goal and brief personality shapshot, please.

[Criptfeind]

Bam

Shakespeare I am not but it is late here and I wanted to get something in before others did.

So First yay.

[Iituem]

Stone greatsword.  Hahahah.  Not sure that's physically viable (what you have there is basically a brittle mace with reach) but why not?  If I might provide a suggestion for a more effective version, how about a long flat wooden pole, toothed with flint shards (inspiration is pretty clear, there) that functionally serves as a greatsword?  Unfortunately, actual swords can't really happen until metalworking is available.

Also - Sword, Bow+10 arrows.  Third item?

[Heron TSG]

Macuahuitl are indeed at the right era.

[mainiac]

Spoiler: Gwen (click to show/hide)

Gwen, Wizard (Human Female)
Age: 22
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 135 lbs.

Ability Scores:
STR 8 (-1)
DEX 8 (-1)
CON 12 (+1)
INT 18 (+4)
WIS 14 (+2)
CHA 10

HP: 5/5
AC: 9
Fort: +1
Refx: -1
Will: +6
Melee AB: -1
Range AB: -1
Initiative: 0

Feats:
Magical Aptitude
Visions of Fortune

Skill Points: 24
Skill Name:           

Skills ranks/modifier
------------------
Language, Tongue of Gwen's homeland
Language, City Tongue
Literate, Plains Tongue
Literate, City Tongue
Concentration 3/+7
Craft (Clothier) 2/+6
Decipher Script 2/+6
Knowledge (arcana) 4/+6
Profession (shepherddess) +2/+4
Profession (herbologist) +2/+4
Spellcraft   4/+10
Heal 2/+4
Use Magical Device 0/+6

Inventory:
Stone Dagger
Fine woolen cape
Bag of herbs

Gwen was born in a different tribe, many days travel away.  The tribe she was born into lived close to one of the strange collections of many people known as a town, which ended up saving the girls life at a young age.  The child had strange and terrible dreams of the people of her tribe suffering and often times, the dreams would come true.  Gwen was blamed for causing the events that she spoke of and was going to be cast into the wilderness to die of exposure when a strange outsider intervened on her behalf.  He said that Gwen's ability was a gift of powerful magic, not a curse and that with his help, she could predict good fortune as well as ill.  His words were proven true and she was allowed to live and become an apprentice to the stranger, a diviner named Errec.

Gwens childhood was not allowed to proceed peacefully however.  Errec knew through his divination that danger was approaching for both of them.  His knowledge had made him enemies among a tribe that commanded many warriors, gathered into what they called an army.  He knew they were coming and would kill him or his protege given the chance.  For their safety, Errec convinced Gwen's parents to give up their young child and fled before his enemies could hear of him.  For a short time, the young Gwen lived in a city, a bewildering place she can barely remember but recalls as being full of strange faces and huge buildings.  But before long, the pair moved onward, traveling for many days more until they arrived at a new land and took a place among a tribe that was willing to take them in.

Errec wished to live out his remaining life in peace so he largely kept his abilities to himself and strictly forbade Gwen from revealing hers.  In secret, he trained her in the magical arts, but to the rest of the tribe, she was simply introduced as a young child in need he had adopted.  Errec was tolerated because he was largely self sufficient and was capable of helping the tribe's healer somewhat.  His young protege was accepted as one of the tribe and grew up to think of it as her home, scarcely remembering the world she knew before.

Years passed an Gwen lived a normal childhood.  She was entrusted to be a shepherdess to help the tribe and was taught to turn the sheeps wool into cloth.  She learned some of the healing crafts from the tribe healer.  But in secret, Errec taught her to use the magical arts.  He taught her to read and write both the scripts of the plains and the scripts of the distant cities she barely remembered.  He taught her the names of the stars in the sky and how their power related to the magical arts.  In the long hours she spent out in the fields, Gwen sowed Errec's lessons onto the cloak she wore.  On the outside, were the lessons of the stars and the arcane planes, disguised as pictures of exotic animals.  Inside she sowed the powerful formulas of magic, hidden behind the foreign script of the cities.  With no one but Errec knowing, she took to heart the lessons of magic she could only in the utmost secrecy put to use.

Then when Gwen was an adult, discord struck the tribe.  A power struggle began and Errec, despite his desire for a peaceful old age, felt compelled to weigh in on the matter.  Gwen naturally followed her mentor as he sided with the loosing side.  She was forced to flee as a result of the struggle while he, too infirm to flee and too old to care, chose to stay behind and risk the victors vengence.

I was wondering if I might invent a feat called "Visions of Fortunes" to represent Gwen's natural aptitude for divining.  What it would do is give her visions when someone she knows is going into a situation that presents either danger or some bounty or victory.  The catch is that she gets the visions regarding the potency of the situation, not the actual outcome.  So if Gwen and her companions were going to face many battles in the next day, she would have dreams the day before of them both in danger about to be injured, and victorious, vanquishing their foes.  Mostly the effects of the feat would be flavor, random snippets of information of characters or enemies that might prove to be significant, without getting any clarity about who the characters are.  Mechanically, there could be a +1 to initiative and the ability to always win the initiative in the surprise round of an enemy ambush as she recognizes the situation a split second before the attack begins.  The visions aren't very useful about traps because traps are generic and dangerous by their very nature.  Every time a tribesman handled a wolf trap she would have visions of them about to injure themselves that never came to pass.  This feat could also serve as a useful plot device if you want to feed us information.  If you like this feat, I'd be taking it in place of Iron Will.

As an example of what this feat would do, the night before they were expelled from the tribe, Gwen had visions of Jorn both becoming the tribe champion and locked in mortal combat, visions of Errec wielding magic and in danger (which might have happened after they fled), visions of Tawe fingering a knife behind his back and arguing, visions of herself being menaced by the chief and visions of them cast out of the tribe.

[Solifuge]

Updated Character Sheet:
Tawe the Wanderer
Male CG Human Rogue, Level 1, Init +6, HP 8/8, Speed 30 ft
AC 12, Touch 12, Flat-footed 10, Fort +2, Ref +4, Will +0, Base Attack Bonus 0   
  Flint Dagger    (1d4, 19-20/2x)
Abilities Str 10, Dex 14, Con 14, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 10
Condition None

Spoiler: Tawe's Old Background (click to show/hide)

EDIT: This has since been revised.

Tawe is a young hunter with a thin, athletic build, sandy brown hair, and dark eyes. To his tribe, he was never known for being particularly brave or strong, but he made up for it in cunning, speed, and resourcefulness. Even though he was a capable trapper and leatherworker, he had a reputation for shirking work, since he would often rush his duties in order to find time to listen to storytellers, play his flute, or wander the wilderness observing wild beasts. He loved listening to the hunters' tales, and learned many things from them, not the least of which was how to embellish things, and how to tell a boast from the truth.

When he came of age, Tawe left with his peers under the guidance of the older hunters, to prove their worth. The hunt was going poorly, however, and they ranged beyond the edges of their lands, and into largely unknown areas. As they rested one midday, Tawe wandered a short distance away from the others to practice his flute, when he stumbled upon a mother bear and her cubs. She immediately became aggressive, and barreled toward him with a bellow. Shaken, he hurled his spear, but even though it struck a shallow blow, it proved to only enrage her more, and it was all he could do to turn and flee.

His cries, and the bellowing of the bear alerted the other hunters, the bravest among them hurrying to Tawe's side to scare the beast away. Enraged by its wound, and the threat to its nearby young, the bear instead bore down on the hunters, mortally wounding one of Tawe's young peers with a swipe of its claws, before it was finally driven off. Though the danger had passed, the hunters were unable to save the young man's life, try as they might. Many of the other hunters openly blamed Tawe's cowardice and foolish wanderings for the boy's death, and so deeply ashamed was he that Tawe fled into the wilderness that night, leaving his village and his life behind him.

For weeks he wandered the wilderness alone, hunting and trapping small game to meet the barest needs of his survival, wandering ever farther from the land of his home. One morning, he came upon an old pitfall trap which had fallen into disuse, with a wolf-dog trapped below. She looked starved, as though she had been trapped in the pit for some time, and was most likely an abandoned hunting dog from one of the neighboring settlements. Sensing a sort of kinship with the dog, he lowered a wide log into the pit, and once she was free shared some of his provisions with her. Seemingly grateful, the wolf-dog followed after him. Tawe came to call her Jala, and she proved herself capable in flushing out small game, and following a variety of hunting commands.

Together, they pressed on through the wilds, travelling farther and farther away from the land he'd known The guilt still hung heavily on the young man's spirit, but he was determined to find a way to redeem himself, and perhaps someday he would return to his people with honor.

I figure Jala is one of those early hunting dogs that were more or less domestic wolves. Let me know what stats you want me to use for her, for balance purposes. If all goes well, I'd eventually like for her to become Tawe's Ranger Animal Companion:

Spoiler: 3.5 Dog and Wolf Stats (click to show/hide)