D&D Campaign: All Interested Welcome!
After mentioning I'm part of a Skype campaign on the "whatever's on your mind" thread, there seemed to be a fair bit of interest in playing/learning D&D here on the forums. Therefore, I'll be starting a Skype campaign for those interested here. No experience with any sort of tabletop gaming is required, and I'll supply what's needed to game here to the best of my ability.
It will most likely be a 3.5 edition campaign unless most interested in playing would prefer 4th edition. I have links to sites to help build character sheets for both editions.
After the initial sign up, since I'm not sure Dropbox is a good idea as my five man group on Skype has been having problems with space, this thread'll serve as our Dropbox of sorts, character sheets, notifications, etc. will be posted here.
I won't claim to be a fantastic DM, but I do try and make sure my group has fun, and I will be playing a character as well as DMing. Also, I try to be on Skype regularly, so feel free to contact me if you feel you need help or just have general questions. I'll try to be as helpful as I can.
It will most likely be a 3.5 edition campaign unless most interested in playing would prefer 4th edition. I have links to sites to help build character sheets for both editions.
After the initial sign up, since I'm not sure Dropbox is a good idea as my five man group on Skype has been having problems with space, this thread'll serve as our Dropbox of sorts, character sheets, notifications, etc. will be posted here.
I won't claim to be a fantastic DM, but I do try and make sure my group has fun, and I will be playing a character as well as DMing. Also, I try to be on Skype regularly, so feel free to contact me if you feel you need help or just have general questions. I'll try to be as helpful as I can.
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On the clerical end of things:
Here is the Character sheet generator for 3.5 edition. The default settings that it has set for stat roll, etc. is fine.
However before you start generating your character, you should look at this site for classes and This site for races, since both are important to how your your character should be built. I'm not requiring anyone to play strictly the base classes (Dwarf, Human, Elf, Half-elf, Halfling, Gnome, Half-Orc) because I personally do not like playing those classes and find them a bit restrictive. Also, select anything you think your character should be carrying starting out, but pay attention to the weight. Too many heavy items of too many items in general will slow your character down and, if you are spell caster, cause you to fail more often.
For newcomers, certain races have certain bonuses or weaknesses they add to some of your 6 starting stats; Strength (from which attack strength/lifting capability/etc. is drawn from), Constitution (HP/resistance to attacks/etc.), Dexterity (Speed/ability to dodge an attack/acrobatic type skill abilities/etc.), Intelligence (spell casting), Wisdom (Spellcasting and knowledge checks) and Charisma (certain spells and abilities rely on this skill, and it's particularly important to a bard). These bonuses tend to predispose races to certain classes, but that doesn't mean you have to follow it (I'm a big one for picking classes and races that don't go together. Like a Minotaur Bard). If your race is not necessarily designed to be a spellcaster (has a -2 to intelligence for example) you can put a higher number in that stat to compensate for the deficiency of your character's race.
Before deciding on a race or class take a good look at the description, that's the best advice I can give on constructing a good balanced character.
EDIT: Certain characters like Mind Flayers require you to start as a monstrous humanoid, and you take ranks as that first. We will follow that for the most part, except should you choose minotaur, create a Krynn Minotaur rather than the standard one. The standard minotaur build is supremely hampered at level 1.
I think Neverwinter Nights is the main culprit for that!
Had a quick look at the character sheet and a couple of stuff off the other links.
I think if I play, I'll go for a Half-Elf Rogue, probably one that uses a shortbow, (maybe some light magic but if there are dedicated mages, then that might not be necessary).
(The character I rolled has high dexterity and intelligence)
More clerical stuff, since people are already deciding on class/race/etc. (should have done this earlier but got buried in writing the scenario). Unfortunately, the character sheet site does not just let you link your character sheet, so I'll be looking at other methods to link them into the thread.
Also, make sure to gen your characters at level 1 (just mentioning it so it's clear to everyone).
Oh, and I should mention I've genned a bard for this campaign. So, I've got some spellcasting capabilities, but I won't be able to do any healing until around level 3 ish.
http://www.text-upload.com/read.php?id=40214&c=6288167
(Its my first try at making a character, so if it sucks then I'm sorry! XD)
Could then label the link like this:
Larren Moonchild -level 1
Grognak -level 1 (One I made for fun! XD)
Marsha Shrilltongue -level 1 (Just practicing with the creator a little bit more! XD)
So things don't get too mixed up.
Edit: Great, I don't know what would be good armor for me.
Edit again: If you want to contact me on Skype you have to add me as a contact, I have it set to not reject anything by anyone off contact list. Still working on character.
Here's my bard, Karis Dirgeseeker
EDIT: Rangers do best with light or medium armor, particularly if your playing an elf. I'd recommend a chain shirt or studded leather starting out, Hide if your character can manage the weight with no penalties.
Now I need to go to bed.
I screwed up the level, which should say 1, but other than that I think I did all right on it. The character generator let me create my own race, so I hope that that's allowed.
Same here. I'm not confident enough in my availability for multiple sessions, but I'm definitely interested.
Actually, what's the context of this campaign anyways? I feel self conscious making a character without knowing what would make sense. (like choosing a planar character for a vanilla world)
Gee willikers! Did you add those modifiers to your race, or is that the level adjustment?
Watching the DungeonMasters recently reminded me of just how muc of a geek I was back in the eighties
Unless I'm doing it wrong.
You're both welcome to sit in the first session or take one of the semi-regular NPCs. I haven't genned the latter yet, but I hopefully will get them up within the next day or so, so you can take a look.
There's nothing wrong with a unique race, though the standard seven are a good jumping off point (Then again, my first character was an epic level Silver Dragon (who later became a homebrewed race of Draconic Zombie) plane jumping with a couple of fallen celestials and an avatar of Tiamat, so yeah...suppose I can't really talk). Again, I'm pretty open to players being creative in regards to race.
The world is fairly standard, actually, but we're starting on a subcontinent which is home to a number of ancient ruins housing rare and mystical artifacts (Leading to the major occupations being adventuring and treasure hunting), so a planar character could conceivably be present, coming through a gate in one of the mentioned ruins.
Fawful, as DM I don't really have a problem with players generating their own races at all, in fact, feel free to do so, provided you give me a little background on the race you create so I can incorporate it into the scenario properly. However, I do...kind of have a problem with having an eldritch horror in the party for a standard campaign. Your stats are a bit overpowered for one, and really, your character is more suited to an epic level campaign. I definitely hang onto him, he's got good stats and is well built for an epic style campaign, he's just not really suited for this one.
I noticed that when I rechecked the character sheet this morning. Minotaurs have a racial hit dice of 6d8, so I'll roll my HP again and fix that.
NOTICE: Anyone playing a nonstandard race should go back to the race link I put up last page and double check your character sheet to see if everything lines up. The generator appears to not necessarily take into account all Racial benefits. Please modify as necessary. If you need to reroll your stats, use this site which we will be using for the game itself once we get started.
EDIT: Fixed Karis Dirgeseeker's stats and re-uploaded them.
I added them. I really have no concept of what overpowered is in this game though, but I did want him to be powerful.
I'll probably make a more standard character then. The thing is, this is turning out to be really tough for me to get into because it takes so much learning and I have a hard time concentrating on and retaining information such as what is needed for this. I'm also having trouble figuring out exactly what I need to know now, or use now, so putting a character together by itself is proving to be a huge challenge. I'll probably end up being one of the clumsier players, as I'm REALLY new to this sort of thing. Like, as new as possible.
As for what you need to know as a player, how I personally break it down so that it's easier to handle kind of follows the basic question of what do I want to be? If you want to be a frontline fighter, do you want to be the big guy who can take a lot of hits (go fighter and one of the races that has constitution bonuses), the fast fighter (fight based rogue or a dexterity based fighter), the sneaky fighter (rogue) or the damage dealer (Beserker is good at this). If you want to be a spellcaster, do you want to heal or deal damage? Do you want to have to prepare spells (Wizard) or just be able to cast them (Sorcerer)? Or, do you want to do a little of both (Bard)?
After you decide how you want to play, picking a race (most of the time, I try to play against type myself), alignment and how to distribute your stats sort of falls into place. As for avoiding being overpowered, go with the standard distribution of stats, and keep rolling until you see a setup you like.
If it helps in regards to retaining info, I still have to look up what half of my feats and such do, and I've been playing D&D since Junior High, there is a lot to know about the game, and nobody, least of all me, is going to expect you to remember it all off the top of your head.
Bramblerose Ramsey
and my doggy companion
Cengared
Human fighter Cengared
and I'll keep this one as a backup, though I'll need to think of another name.
Half-Elf rouge
It's actually entirely possible to get that HP, as Stayrs have a racial hit die of 5d6 + 5.
I have to gen three major NPC characters and finish writing our first adventure, but I think it's safe to say that come this time tomorrow we can start discussing days/times that will work for the campaign, so give it some thought over the next couple of days and let me know. The campaign will probably wait for four or five days minimum, just to give everyone time to check their schedules, finish genning characters, etc. before we get going.
EDIT: All of the NPCs genned. The four regulars will be put up for your perusal here.
Sidney Hyuga, innkeeper at the Duskblade.
Lyn Brightblade, head of the Adventurer's Guild
Karel Feldburg, head of the Treasure Hunter's Guild
Kolarth, head of the Thief's Guild and information broker.
This was a huge help. Thanks.
I made a new character which should be a lot easier to put into the campaign.
Shit Kicker, Rogue, Half-Dragon Human Male
Feel free to edit him how you see fit. Like, I put a bunch of items on there and I'm not sure I really need them all.