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10/14/09:Hey, look, the long week was over, another one happened and next week is finals... might as well make it a permanent warning. If I fall behind too much do what you need to.

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Interesting in games stuff I've seen:
"Acid of Sleeping Dragon."
Talking to a bouncy ball of flames Have to read back a couple posts to get all of it.

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Old signatures:
Me: "I'm going to use my keen gnomish nose to see if i can smell any glue"
DM: "let me paint you picture of what's happening. This 3'4" gnome is walking in circles around a 4' tall stone table sniffing for 100+ year old glue that may or may not have existed to begin with"

Thank you Anonymous person who gave me a green name... If I ever find out who you are... I'll ensure that no good deed goes un-punished Rewarded.

These guys are true heroes of light and good, not a lot of room for a thief in the group, plus we have a beguiler already. (From Nickolie, Sigged for truth)

RPXP for in game posts only please. It is gratifying, but not representative of my skills.

"It's good to be back in Tolnedra again. I love the smell of deceit, corruption and intrigue." ~ Silk

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion." ~ Mentat

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage." ~ Nietzsche

Usful things for Formatting posts

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Stuff:
Thank you Anonymous person who gave me a green name... If I ever find out who you are... I'll ensure that no good deed goes un-punished Rewarded.

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Characters Currently in Use:
Hawk Maginaar - does sneaky stuff - Nickolie's "Hero's of Light and Glory"
Tungsten - Thinks about a lot of stuff, then pays someone to build his ideas
Light - Raptoran who does stuff.
Ur - Imagine an avatar of Baccob who didn't worship Baccob... now it's a gnome. That's this guy
Meq - Lich in Roaddog's Gestalt Solo game (would tell you more, but then I'd have to kill you)

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5) No Particular Order:
Drag0nga1axy (If you didn't make Gavin such a real person, I would hate you... but you're good at what you do)
Orangehatter (See the Acid of Sleeping Dragon and other exploits)
KithKunabi (he has a magical skull, only time RL or PbP I ever rolled a natural 20 attack with a natural 20 confirm was when I was shooting him in the head)
Nickolie (only DM who doesn't seem to hate my characters... he might, but he covers it well)
I'm sure there's a lot more, just not off the top of my head

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Game World Setting that I am working on. Feel free to leave comments or questions below, it may help me develop the world

Erde is what the natives call the plane, with 3 large continents, a small continent/large island, and the blasted lands having been explored and mapped, Stories of other lands across the western sea exist but you have never talked to anyone from there, or even anyone who believably claims to have talked to anyone from there.

 

These islands once formed the continent of Howel but during the rebellions against the 3rd dynasty empire the Wizards of both sides sought to turn the very land against their opponents. In the end, volcanoes sprouted from the Howel and quakes shook the entire known plane in protest to the opposing demands. The terrible upheaval thew up pyroclastic ash and soot that blacked out the sun for months before settling and coating everything. Eight thousand years later in the present era, the northern and southern ice still hold traces of the cataclysm, only in the last thousand years have the islands that remain become more than rocks that even moss has difficulty growing on.

For the last several generations, many elves have felt the call and traveled to where the burgeoning life brought opportunities to build ideal homes. Many of the islands are now covered in forests that grew faster than is entirely natural, being encouraged by the tender magics over several elven generations. Now travelers to the various islands are treated to sights of black volcanic sand leading to mountainous islands covered in tall forests with elven cities spread out over several islands. Each tribe claims several islands to watch and care for and tend to stay within their boundaries and are relatively isolationist.

One small island is different, the primary trading port for the entire association of tribes is a barren rock with no vegetation anywhere on it. With a large natural harbor, there are tunnels and caverns honeycombing through the giant basalt mountain, where traders come to barter for the exotic woods, fruits, weapons, and other products produced on the elven isles. Controlled by the Drow, the island of Rhink follows some unusual laws for those visiting and trading upon it.

1) Right of Combat
If you have a disagreement with someone, you can issue a challenge. Schedule a time in one of the arena's, and resolve the dispute. Winner was obviously correct.
2) Fighting outside of the arena is punishable by death.
3) Lying to the trade commissioner is punishable as the commissioner deems fit (usually unpleasant). They don't have to wait for an arena to be scheduled.

 

The southern continent of Jutyan is divided into east and west by the Roof of the World, a mountain range so tall that overland travel through them is nearly impossible.

The Roof of the World was always full of snow capped peaks, but 800 BCE (Before Common Era) there was a great battle between the self proclaimed God of Light (a delusional wizard drunk on his own power, living in a castle made of diamond at the peak of one of the mountains) and a mysterious figure known by the common people as 'The soothing darkness'. During the battle the many spells wrought drew on the natural environment, enhancing the dangerous aspects of the frozen mountains, Now it is no longer simple snow that covers the mountains, but an unnatural cold that at times turns the very air into a liquid that flows, nothing survives without powerful magic protecting it and then there are the other dangers as there are claims of undead buried beneath the razor sharp ice.

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Powerful Magic:
The type of magic the PC's combat (in most games I have seen at least), requires lots of research (time scaled to spell), many components components (number and cost of components), long cast times (weeks/months/years), Large energy expenditures (multiple casters over long times, no other spells during the GYGAXGYGAXGYGAX).

These types of spells may end up with floating cities, unusual properties over large areas (fast/slow time, distortions in space, magical landscapes [covered in the complete mage I believe... don't have books on me right now]), permanent changes to weather patterns. Every person participating (concept development, research, preparation, execution) must be at least level 10 (concept and research may be a bit flexible on this). All spells custom made. Failure may either be silent (just doesn't work) or verbose (DM discretion what happens). Interruption and interference may have unusual effects (Modeled after Epic level spells, but not quite as powerful). (Price variable, research time on the order of weeks to generations by an entire magic guild)

Important Magic:
Useful magic that may or may not have combat importance. Often commissioned by cities to improve travel to or from them (portals), or to do some large scale task (repetitive cleaning of aqueducts/sewers, lighting the entire city). Most often has some form of physical manifestation inscribed with runes (portal arch, mechanical cleaning). Weak versions (commissioned by smaller towns or some group without large resources) may need recharging after certain time periods (may be defunct at times). Higher quality versions will be permanent.

Requires the physical structure to bind the magical spells, so some sturdy components. Still beyond the ability of ordinary individuals to create, though maintenance could likely be done by individuals. Less likely than powerful magic to be interrupted or disturbed, though it could probably be done. (order of 10k gold to make, usually requires some kind of feat, may require up to weeks of research)

'Personal' Magic:
All spells taking one full round or less. From assorted sourcebooks.

Common Magic:
Sparkles at the fingertips of an entertainer, a small but steady breeze to keep a forge warm, poking holes for seeds without bending over. Little magic specialized to your work that you just pick up over time. Cantrip level or lower, just handy to have around in certain circumstances.

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Worldwide Magic:
Severed Magic: Legend has it that these areas were created with the world as a prison to those the gods frown upon. Large areas (miles in diameter) where the arcane magic in the atmosphere is almost palpable, but inaccessible. No known arcane spells will work in these tempting regions which were originally enormous pits with slick vertical walls. Thousands of years ago many mages banded together to move earth into these areas, effectively removing their effectiveness as prisons, though they are still unpleasant to travel through. Divine magic behaves erratically depending on deity, time, weather, companions, phase of the moon, number of alpha particles within 10,000 miles (essentially random or worse if I am vindictive that GYGAXGYGAXGYGAX). Severed Magic regions are virtually unexplored due to the fact that magic does not work and most of the 'active area' is under hundreds of feet of dirt/rock.

Local Magic:
Rift Doors: Strange places where the plane is torn open. It is interesting to note that Rift Doors move in quick jumps on the order of 10 years, but never between jumps. Usually generating a breeze ranging from light to hurricane force based on the pressure differentials on the two sides, it is possible to bury or drown a rift door if enough dirt or water is applied to bury the current side and to push the substance level to the top of the rift door on the far side. These gates are responsible for great devastation at various points in history as one will open at the centre of a magma pocket, or under the ocean while the other is in a geologically or magically sensitive area (and sometimes even populated areas). Magical energy in these areas tends to be twisted, any spell with a target (that's most of them, including "target self") that includes or whose line of effect passes through an area within approximately 100 feet of the rift door has an unknown chance of being deflected an unknown angle (up to and including rebounding on the user or others nearby). Much research has been done on rift doors, and many great leaps in portal stabilization and creation methods are due to this natural phenomenon.

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Poor people eat from such things as sustaining spoons and everlasting rations. tasteless gruel and what not. items are often donated by churches/clergy (Think monks bent to improving themselves through service to others, not actual churches.) to those on the street. Sometimes hired as short term labour for farming and other unskilled tasks that require a human touch they perform a valuable service

Temporary Housing for laborers usually exists in cities, these work houses will uses an arcane mark of a certain color (which changes occasionally (usually weekly), usually on the back of the hand. After a certain period of time passes (different for each work house) the laborer is not allowed to stay any longer. Potential employers seeking unskilled labor will stop by and hire those in the facility, these buildings are usually simply roofs and walls, with no feeding or sanitary facilities. Anyone found disturbing a work house is subject to whatever punishment the house monitor sees fit and is capable of executing.

Middle class may have upgraded versions of such things, essentially the same items with prestidigitation included to make it tastier, though after enough time of the same meal they get old and so they will go to restaurants and eat different kinds of food (food preservation and easy transport mean that many places can have exotic dishes available). It is common to socialize with people who have different food packages for a little more variety. Some people in this class collect different flavors like people today collect coins. Sometimes even having the same 'flavor' from several different creators for the various small differences. Some practice the art of cooking, but raw food ingredients tends to be more expensive due to being used as trade goods to other planes, and with magical food so plentiful things like corn and wheat flour are rare.

Travel to most locations by the middle class is done through portals (for a nominal fee) to established destinations, or by over land/sea travel. While transportation magic is not uncommon, it is still beyond the average middle class except for special occasions (Vacations or important business trips might be examples). Sometimes these people will donate used or out of style pieces to 'clergy'

Upper class would have personal chefs to prepare a variety of delectable dishes from across the planes, and either have high level wizards to see to any magical needs they have, or have the proper training to care for their magical needs themselves. This class will occasionally build monasteries, schools, work houses, or other public works as a show of wealth and generosity.

Farming is still important, though most farmers plant exotic herbs or vegetables and use magic to keep them alive. Interplanar gates to other places are used by consortiums to purchase the ultra-rare foods and the common stocks (corn flour, wheat, sugar, etc...)

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Application Rules:

I am the DM, I reserve the right to do as I see fit with your characters. That being said, if I plan on doing anything particularly malicious, I will try to contact you out of game (PM, OOC thread, something) and let you know what's going on. This is supposed to be fun for everyone involved, and if your character gets trapped inside a mosquito's body for a long period of time... I can understand that wouldn't be fun. If there is anywhere you would like the game to go, please post it in the OOC or PM if you are uncomfortable asking in front of people. I have a plot thread semi-prepared (I have the main concept and 2 sub plots worked out... one of which is the opening hook below), but it's a big world and if you want to explore elsewhere it's your game.

Secret EVERYTHING but your appearance and what you would like to be called. If there are any joint applications, the players can decide how much they know but there will be in game introductions, and everyone should be on even footing. After that reveal what you would like (up to and including character sheet data if you so desire).

About the campaign: Initial hook is a darkness falling over one of the kingdoms (haven't come up with the world map yet so it is nameless right now). The people of some as yet unnamed large city noticed that their government was changing almost overnight. The mayor was assassinated and even the best diviners in the city are without any leads. The new mayor has replaced the tax collectors and the constabulary. While this is not unusual, many citizens are unhappy and leaving for other places.

ECL: 13 (Not firm on this yet, somewhere between 11 and 15 inclusive)
Sources Allowed: No Psionic. No Tome of Battle. Limited Tome of Magic. Keep in mind that as a general rule I try to use sources that the players use. Meaning if someone uses FR material, I am (more) likely to use FR material to try killing entertaining you, same for Ebberon or any of the enviromental books (Sandstorm, Frostburn, etc...). Also note that I may use them anyway, introducing them just changes the chances of them showing up.
Races: Level mod +2 or less (That is HD + LA < 3). I can be flexible on this, but I don't want to deal with someone who has tonnes more racial abilities than class abilities. I personally find it distracting. Again, if you have your heart set on a different race, comment below or send me a PM, you can always apply with it but the chances of being accepted decrease exponentially with each level it takes (without prior permission).
Stats: 32 point buy. I don't want to have the party be unbalanced because of poor rolling, and I don't want drama of "but you gave him an 16 and my highest stat is a 15" or whatever.

Backstory: If I particularly like your backstory, there will be benefits. Benefits may be letting you have that masterwork non-magical dagger that has been in your family for generations... for free (at this level the cost is unlikely to matter anyway, but free is good). If you really blow me over, better benefits can be handed out... but I am not a generous person.

Posting Rate: (3-4)/week. I would much prefer a faster posting rate (1/GYGAXGYGAXGYGAX) but the real world always has something happening and with 3-4 players, plus the DM someone is always going to be having a problem. If you are holding back the group, I will NPC you as I see fit (I try not to be unreasonable, but this is kind of a difficult decision to quantify).
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House Rules: (These apply to both good guys and bad guys)

PvP: I do not intend this to be a PvP game. That said: I will not stop it. If your feelings get hurt... you were warned. If I feel you were just being a jerk to show off how amazing you are at power gaming bad things will happen.

Diplomacy: I will not be using the regular rules. Short version is "NPC's are treated similar to PC's, no diplomacy - roleplay all of it" Long version is "If you want to roll a diplomacy check when you RP with NPCs, I will consider it as part of your interaction. The how much the roll influences the NPC is inversely proportional to the importance of the NPC." This means if you want to talk your way out of the boss fight, you actually have to role play it.
NO USING DIPLOMACY ON PCs! This is final!

Intimdate: I put no restrictions on the uses for this, but keep in mind that I also will not coddle any of the players, if you Intimidate someone and they decide to kill you in your sleep when it wears off... you are dead.

Criticals: I do critical hits as follows.

If you roll a natural 20 on any attack roll, it is automatically a hit and critical threat. If you roll a 19 and don't hit the AC, I don't care if it's a critical threat or not, it fails. Critical Damage will be rolled, not multiplied. If you Roll a natural 20 on confirmation, add one more die to the damage and roll again. If you roll a third natural 20, bad guy dies (it does happen occasionally).

Natural 20 on a save roll (Fortitude/Reflex/Save), is an automatic success.

Natural 20 on skill checks are not automatic successes. You get what you get.

Natural 1's follow the same pattern. only bad (will fill in more later)

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• Sample writing style
• Game type: Starts Urban, then may change based on character decisions, many problems will be presented with many solutions. Puzzles, Diplomatic, Dungeons, Traps, Combat... all are planned depending on player response.
• Tone: Mostly serious, expect light-hearted interludes and some dark-gritty interludes
• Roll/Role play: Expecting mostly Roleplaying, the Roleplaying can be tempered based on Rolls (ex. if you roleplay an amazing bluff but roll poorly, it might turn out average, but if both are amazing it would surpass what the roll alone could do)
• Posting Rate: 2/week minimum. 1/day preferred but real life happens to everyone and with 5 people involved (assuming 4 players and the DM) something will always come up.

 

• Sources: Any printed WotC except Tome of Battle, limited use of Tome of Magic, No Psionics
• Requests: Online WotC resources must be pre-approved, 3rd party sources are forbidden (you can't use anything for character building, if you want to draw inspiration from them, I love some of them like Traps and Treachery )
• Unearthed Arcana: Figure this out later -----------------------------------------------------
• Level: 3/4 of the way to level 14 (will figure out the exact number when I'm at my books)
• Application format: Secret Everything except what you are called and what you appear to be. Spoilerbutton the background, each of the defining moments, the Ethics/Morals
  
  Name: Insert Name Here (or what you will be called)
  
  Appearance: A description of what you look like.
  
  Alignment: Put your alignment here. Some controversy may exist. See below.
  
  Class: Cite your class. No level dipping. If you are multi-classing with a base class, you must take at least 5 levels before taking anything else. If it is a prestige class, you must take all of it before taking anything else.
  
  Background: A rough overview of what your life has been like.
  
  Defining Moments: In depth description of an event in your characters life, something that explains why your character acts like it does. You may have as many of these as you want.
  
• Gold: Standard for 14th Level
• Special for classes: All classes must give full arcane spellcasting progressions (9th level spells). Spellthieves are allowed by exception. If you have questions or requests for exceptions ask. There is some room for flexibility here, but if you don't ask it will automatically be forbidden. If you are interested in a full divine spellcaster, state it first in the secret portion of your app, and make at least one of your defining moments the turning point towards the divine.
• If there are any alignment questions, post them and I will clarify. This is to avoid where "In a country where ritual sacrifice of innocents is expected, the Paladin either does it and becomes evil, or refuses and becomes chaotic for disobeying the law"

 

Stats: 32 point buy as seen in DMG page 169
Hit Points: Max at first level, Rolled for the rest (When I get a rolling thread, all rolling MUST be done there)

 

There is a wide variety of climates in the world. Deserts where Sandstorm material will be utilized, Frozen wastelands where Frostburn material will be used. Dense forests, swamps, underwater, mountains... and since you are all alive in magically active times, the terrain may change rather drastically very quickly. Places near sought after resources are likely to remain the similar since no one wants to risk them, and near cities is likely to be more stable because of the available magical power. Play long enough and many unusual environments might be encountered.

Planar travel is available if you the players desire, but most are rather boring for anyone from Krin. Even peasants are strong enough to discourage the ferocious beasts of other planes.

 

 

Game Name: Start of a legend
DM: Prometheous100
Posting Rate Expectation: 2/week

 

Level: 14 (94500 exp)
Stat Generation: 4d6, 7 times (keep the best 3 dice for each roll, and the best 6 sets). EXCLUSIVE OR 32 point buy. You must select before you roll, and can not change your mind.
Character Wealth: 170,000 GP **Items over 60,000 GP cost 10% extra. I'm giving you a bit extra gold to play with to account for it but sometimes you get ripped off and this would account for it. (this is for character creation, prices may vary in game)

 

The theme song for at least the first chapter of the story arc is Whispers in the Dark

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For your own reasons which I would like to see in your background, you entered a tournament hosted by the city of Razom on the border of the wasteland. The rules of the tournament are simple, two people are transported into the arena and one person leaves. Mechanically this means that I am accepting 8 players, only 4 will be playing after the introduction.

Many city states hold competitions like this or similar to it, so know that you are likely to find a dangerous environment waiting for you, and an opponent who wants nothing more than to use you as a stepping stone to fame and glory. This tournament is somewhat special, being commissioned by one of the more powerful city/states, when the flyers spoke of a valuable unnamed reward to the top 4 contestants people are inclined to take it at face value.

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World map... missing cities and some detail, but they will be added soon