[Mechanics] Houserules

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Here is a complete list of house rules. I suggest everyone take a look at it from time to time.

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Most archetypes are availible to all classes. Here is a complete table of racial archetypes that anyone may create!

Bard

Cleric

Druid

Fighter

Monk

Paladin

Rogue

Sorcerer

Wizard

Alchemist

Cavalier

Inquisitor

Summoner

Witch

Gunslinger

Magus

Prankster

Demonic Apostle

Sky Druid

Foe Hammer

Iron skin Monk

Tranquil Paladin

Skulking Slayer

Imperious Bloodline

Spell Binder

Saboteur

Fell Rider

Exarch

Wild Caller

Bonded Witch

Experimental Gunsmith

Spell Dancer

Feral Child

Dirty Fighter

Wanderer

Filcher

Fire Bomber

Immolator

Blood God Disciple

Buccaneer

Elemental Knight

Tree Singer

Eldritch Raider

Bushwhacker

Deadly Courtesan

Expanded Archetypes but not all inclusive. Also The Order of the Paw Caviler order is now expanded to include hobbits and gnomes. But no other race is allowed besides them. The Shadow Caller Summoner is open to Wayang players. Those that take a racial archetype that does not belong to (such as a Kobold Fire-bomber archetype)their own race, qualify for any feats associated with that archetype. (so long that they meet the pre-requisite's for it excluding the racial requirement.) if the racial archetype is not in this table or mentioned above it is still restricted to that race alone.

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Here are the new racial rules for Kobolds, Goblins, Svifneblin and Hobbits

 

Kobolds Kobolds are humanoids with the reptilian subtype. Kobolds are small sized creatures with the standard abilities that being small bestows. Kobolds receive a +2 CON and a +2 DEX but a -2 WIS. Kobolds have spent generations as laborers and builders, but don’t always make the best decisions. Languages Standard: Because Kobolds have spent so much time with other races, they begin the game speaking Common and Draconic. Kobolds with high intelligence modifiers can pick the following languages to learn. Gnome, Halfling, Undercommon, Goblin, Abyssal, giant, and Orc Kobolds have spent a lot of time rebuilding the lands of the great alliance, this has caused them to be nimble and light on their feet, they receive +2 racial bonus on Acrobatics checks made to cross narrow ledges and on saving throws against altitude fatigue and sickness. Natural Kobolds gain a +1 natural armor bonus to their Armor Class. Kobolds gain a +2 to any craft/profession check when trying to create objects made from metal or wood. Kobolds begin the game with a bonus feat of their choice. Dark vision (60feet) Light sensitivity Kobolds are dazzled when exposed to areas of intense light.

 

Goblins Goblins are humanoids with the goblin sub-type Goblins are small sized creatures and receive the benefits and penalties that being small sized assumes. Goblins gain a +4 DEX and a +2 CHA Goblins begin play speaking Goblin and common Goblins with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Undercommon, Draconic, Dwarven, Gnoll, Gnome, Halfling, and Orc. Multitalented, Goblins pick two favored classes at game start and gain +1 Hit Point or +1 skill point whenever they take a level in one of these favored classes. Light sensitivity Goblins are dazzled in area's of intense light Darkvision (60feet) Goblins are quick and escape dangers quickly, their base speed is 30’ instead of 20

 

Svirfneblin

Languages: Svirfneblin begin play speaking Gnome and common. Those with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Halfling, Under-common, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Giant, Goblin, Orc, and Terran.

Small-Svirfneblin are small sized creature and gain all the penalties and bonuses that bestows.

Stats- Svirfneblin gain a +2 Wis, +2 dex but a -2 to Strength

Defensive training, greater Svirfneblin gain a +2 to their dodge AC

Svirfneblin Magic: Svirfneblin add +1 to the DC of any illusion spells they cast. Svirfneblin also gain the following spell-like abilities: Constant—nondetection; 1/day—blindness/deafness, blur, disguise self; caster level equals the svirfneblin's class levels.

Lowlight vision

Minesight Members of this race have darkvision 90 feet; however, they are automatically dazzled in bright light and take a –2 penalty on saving throws against effects with the light descriptor.

Hatred: Svirfneblin receive a +1 bonus on attack rolls against humanoid creatures of the reptilian and dwarven subtypes due to training against these hated foes.

Svirfneblin may always treat Appraise and Perception as class skill

Svirfneblin receive spell resistance 6+character level.

 

Hobbits Hobbits are humanoids with the Halfling and Gnome sub-types Hobbits are small sized creatures; as such they receive a +1 on attack rolls and AC, a -1 on CMD defense and a +4 on stealth checks- Hobbits receive a +2 CHA and a +2 INT but a -2 to STR Hobbits begin the game speaking Common and their choice of either Halfling or Gnomic. After this decision Hobbits with high intelligence scores may pick from the following languages: Gnome (if not selected at creation) Halfling (if not selected at creation) Sylvan, Terran, Dwarven, Draconic Goblin and Elven Hobbits are often torn between their Halfling and the gnomic heritage this dual minded quality makes them difficult to affect magically. They receive a +2 to will saving throws Hobbits are renowned for their curiosity and friendly attitudes. They receive a permanent +2 miscellaneous modifier on diplomacy, when gathering information, this bonus jumps to a +4. Knowledge History and Knowledge local is always a class skill. If these are already class skills they receive a +2 bonus instead. Hobbits Treat the halfling sling staff and the Gnomic hooked hammer as martial weapons. Hobbits have low-light vision 60 feet due to their preference for living in their traditional hillside hovels.

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Young, medium sized creatures People who play what will later become medium sized creatures (such as Humans or Elves) will adopt following template. +1 to Dex and Cha, -1 to Wis and STR (Con and Int will be unaffected) They will count as small sized creatures and will adopt all the penalties associate with it. If at any-point the PC becomes "an adult" they will drop this template. Races retain any innate bonuses they receive and stack with the template

Paladins and Anti-paladins Paladins may be LG, LN, or NG Anti-paladins are renamed to Black Guards and may either be, NE or LE any ability/spell that relies on the lawful descriptor or chaotic descriptor respectively shall be reworked, replaced, or removed from the game at the GM’s discretion.

Starting Equipment At game start, characters get the following pieces of equipment for free: A maximum of ten (10) trail rations. 1 Water skin or 1 canteen, 1 Bedroll or 1 hammock and blanket, 50 feet of hemp rope, Flint and Steel, a bar of soap, 1 common backpack. beyond this characters will spend their starting gold normally. Gold will be maxed at start

Critical Hit Changes Critical hits: first dice on a critical is maxed. If a longbow scores a critical, then one of the dice is maxed. So a flat 8 damage, then roll the extra dice as normal. Example: Jim rolls a nat 20 with his longbow. His first damage dice will be maxed (so a flat 8) he will then roll 2d8 to determine his extra damage. When rolling for crit damage it should look like this Dice * Example: 1d8 1 Dice * Critical for Longbow: 1d8+8 (2)+8 Total = 10 this +8 is the maxed critical weapon damage for one of the dice. I still require you to roll this in the dice thread. this roll is here for education purposes.

Rules for advanced firearms Firearms only go against touch ac if the enemy is not wearing metal armor. If you are wearing full plate, scale mail or a breast plate the weapon must resolve against full AC. If you are wearing no armor or wearing leather or hide armor then firearms may resolve themselves on touch. Armors that have magical boosts (such as a +1 hide armor) may add the magical bonus to their AC only, the magical protection would help against firearms but hide is still hide and therefore doesn't grant to full bonus against firearms. Magical protection acts like metal armor. If a wizard casts mage armor, then firearms go against his modified AC not his touch. This applies to other protective effects such as shield, ablative armor and so on. creatures with natural armor may add half their natural armor bonus (minimum 1) to their AC; creatures may add half this bonus on top of any metal armor they are wearing. If the creature is wearing leather armor than they simple add this bonus to their touch. It is important to note that a firearm doesn't resolve against flat-footed AC, in my mind, certain AC modifiers would affect an ability for a bullets to cause damage while other AC modifiers wouldn't. Reloading any advanced firearm is a FULL ROUND ACTION, the reason is simple, unless I have a clip it is going to take AT LEAST six seconds for me to reload the weapon. Rapid Reload can move this down to a STANDARD ACTION I think this is a good balance for crossbows, and regular bows as well. The deflect arrows feat cannot be used against firearms but the snatch arrows can. To me at least, you can't "deflect" a bullet, it either hits you or it doesn't. Snatch arrows does work however the same way a magician can 'catch' a bullet.

"Monk" Weapons A monk my select two extra “monk” weapons not on his list at game start. He is now proficient with those weapons.

Initative Because of the long time frames in PBP, players will always have the initiative. Their initiative order will go with whoever acts first. For Example the players enter combat with a demon. The player will always go first, their "initiative order" is based off of those who are able to post first, after the PC's have acted, then the monsters or enemies get to go. Should a monster(s) get the surprise round, they will go first then the PC's; again, their "order" will be based off of who posts first, not a roll. it is important to note that this essentially destroys initiative, players are advised to not take any feats/traits that rely, boost or promote initiative.

Role-Play experience Players who write particularly juicy and well thought out posts may receive bonus XP for those posts. Each post is subject to the following scale 0-points | This posts meets the bare minimum of posting requirements and does little to portray the character's feeling or thoughts. 10 points | a good post That helps give us insight into your character, while a little lax on description or meat this post is above average. 20 Points | This post shows a fantastic insight into the characters mind and is extremely descriptive. This post goes above and beyond the requirements already Set forth. 30 points | An extremely well thought out and well-written post. This post is fantastic. It is near perfect grammatically, offers great details, and insight, while moves the character along in a fantastic way. These posts are exemplary and push the boundaries of what one is normally used to when posting.

Experience/Stats Experience Points are awarded through a players private thread. Generally after an encounter or some significant story point. Players may level up whenever they are able, XP track will be "fast" Stats will be one of two options: 1d10+8 7 times dropping the lowest to a This limit includes racial modifiersmax stat score of 20. rolls may be allocated as the player deems neccesary 25 point buy with either a 1 18 stat limit OR 2 16 stat limits. Stat limits are before racial modifiers. I like dice rolling so if you get straight 18's that way they are perfectly legitimate... (not really, but we will tweak them together should that even arise )

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The following is the format all players However it is not requiredshould adapt when posting. This is a character I play is in a game I share with Revolutionist. If you feel there is anything you need to mention magic wise or attack wise, it is better to err on the side of caution and include it.

Note that a link to your character sheet should be provided in the fieldset containing your stat block.

Description Thematic Music Name: Salena Glorfyndill Description:   This Elf woman is well armored and well equipped. at least a half dozen weapons are strewn across her body. Swords on her hip and a bow on her back, she is clearly ready for battle. Standing at a hair under 6 foot tall she is like most of her kind. Quick on her feet and beautiful to look at. Her long brown hair is often left free flowing and reaches her mid-back. Her blue eyes show her true beauty accentuating her high cheek bones and her thin lips. She is truly beautiful, but her stern look and dissecting eyes show this is a woman you don't want to get on the bad side of. Selena's chest is covered in a fine sheet of steel, she wears a long yellow cape that has the eye of Ra emblazoned upon it in gold stitching, she also has a tattoo of the eye of Ra on her cheek. Any one with half a brain can see that she is one of his champions.   HP-100 AC/Touch/Flat-footed 25/14/17 Fortitude/Reflex/Will 10/10/10 Attacks Longspear +8 to hit | 1d8+10 | Reach 10'| Special propeties "brace/reach" Dagger +8 to hit/+10 if thrown |1d4+5 | Range 10' Spells Shocking Grasp | Touch attack (+5) | 5d6 | No Saving Throw Lightningbolt 60' line | 5d6 | DC17 Reflex to halve

Selena walked forth he spear in her hands, the Balor was just a little to far off and yet her spear would be just able to reach it, she jabbed it forth, Attack Roll 30 | 18 damagestabbing the foul beast in its belly. It screamed in agony but Selena pushed it further still into its abdomen. The demon lord swooned back and forth, trying to get the spear out from its belly but the Elf held fast pushing it deeper and deeper hoping to piece its tainted heart

Your evil will not taint this land any longer foul demon! give up and may the power of the Serenaedawnflower push you back into the pits of hell, you will not live to see the end of this day as long as I am here!

OOC Move action to Belor Standard Action to attack (attack roll of 30 for 18 damage) Free action to speak to the Belor The DICE is a location for you to link over your dice rolls using the hyperlink tool. You can link directly you dice rolls to your post by right clicking the post number in the right hand side of the screen near your user statistics. Then click "copy link location" then use the hyperlink tool and paste the link location.DICE