I have a suggestion

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Have any of you mods considered making a RP forum? People could play GM for threads, each person could only have one character, there could be all sorts of campaigns, etc? Using standard D&D-ish rules for classes and such. Maybe use one of those online dice-roller programs to formulate combat damage, and such.

My rl group has pretty much broken up and I can't find anyone else in the area (trust me, I've looked) and I figure: Hey, the Safehouse is filled with great roleplayers.

Perhaps something in a chatroom format (passworded, of course)? I think there are plenty of javascript chats you can put in EZboards (guild has one). One person could make chat, password it, invite people via PMs, set a person limit, so on and so forth...

Just something to think about, if you havent already

[Trolo]

I agree totally.

My friends do play, but lightly, and I never really get any playing done. And I want to play.

I bet we could get some really great campaigns going over Java chat or mIRC or maybe even threads here on the board (but the 1 minute thing might slow it down a bit).

I think it's a great idea.





P.S. Han and Bruennie rocks, and Bruenorr smells! Houseless Rake of 52 Jests
Safehouse, Ring Warden of The Rathe
Trolo takes a swig of lutefisk and flips out like a ninja.

[Glip the Gnome]

Feel free to start something yourself guys, but we're set on forums for a while. Glip the Gnome
Best Smelling Admin: The Safehouse
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Where are my pants?

[EZ_Xaaron Swiftblade]

Count me in! sharpens his dice ----
Fencer, Filmmaker, Full of BSEdited by: Xaaron Swiftblade at: 2/18/02 10:02:42 pm

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Hrm, alright. Guess we'll do one ourselves.

/evil cackle


...So, who all'd be interested? So far it's just Trolo, Xaaron and I

[EZ_Riphter]

I dont have dice.. never did D&D.. but I'd love to tr y it if you guys do this. So PM me when it gets started..I already read almost ever damn part of the board..:P

[EZ_Dizzy Kid]

Out.

To much IRL stuff to be able to do this, EQ, and the MUD where most of my buds all hang out.

--DK-- Edited by: Dizzy Kid at: 3/5/02 4:44:07 am

[EZ_Martard]

/raise

count me in!

[EZ_Zulian]

I'd be in, but I've only played a slightly butchered 2ed D&D :P "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[EZ_AdminLadyLuck]

I might be in, depending on the system, setting and stuff. I might join in later. Lady Luck - Safehouse BBS Admin

[EZ_Xaaron Swiftblade]

I'm in the same boat Zulian - I've played both 2nd and 3rd edition, but my groups never abided by the rules at all

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Well, looks like we have enough community interest...

...So, who wants to DM?

(And, I think it would probably be the FR setting, or generic-fantasy-ish setting.)

[EZ_AdminLadyLuck]

*points at Bruenorrdorfo*

Go ahead, Mr. GM!

[EZ_Riphter]

Uh...

...Brue..you'll hafta explain to me Or I cant participate.

And hi AdminLadyLuck.....I dont think I've ever seen you here :P

[EZ_AdminLadyLuck]

I'm just around here in this forum.

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Oh, hell no. I ain't GMing. I hate GMing. I just wanna smash some 'eads.


It was all Trolo's idea! Take him! Dont make meeeee!

[Elerion]

*snicker at "Ms" LadyLuck *

Count me in, as long as I won't have to commit any regular time to it. My RL just won't allow that nowadays. That means I can't GM either, although it would certainly be interesting. Forgotten Realms would be highly preferred if we are going D&D (never cared much for any of the other official Campaign Settings), and either 2nd ed or 3rd ed will be good

[EZ_Zoogie]

I haven't played AD&D for a year.
I haven't ever DMed.
I only know 2nd Edition rules.

If no one has any problems with that, I'll offer to DM.

[EZ_Zulian]

Hm, so you guys want to do like an Open or WebRPG kinda thing?
I'd be willing to DM a campaign or something if we did that... "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[EZ_DreamingofLostthings]

Okay I am new to the board though I have been lurking for a while, been exlusivly lurking in the p&p forum part though since its start. If yah would let me I would like to participate. Would need a little help getting started but I learn fast. Also I think I can dig up an old online dice roller.

[EZ_Zoogie]

I don't think I'm good enough to DM a live action game.

I think I could do a message board one, though.

[EZ_CogginsEQ]

I would love to play

Only played once, a long time ago. It was 2nd edition, but I am willing to purchase the new 3rd edition books to strengthen my knowledge!

[EZ_thal0012]

Lots of work for the GM of the thread. You can't have them sneaky rogue players rolling those wieghted dice. "woot I rolled another 20!!"

[EZ_thal0012]

Seriously we done this before on IRC and it worked great, I supppose icq would work. Just gather some interest and set aside a few hour one night to "roll" up characters and see how much interest there is after the preliminary work of creating a character. In most games I played we rotated 3 game masters positions between to players to ensure everyone got a chance to do thier thing.

edited:
Don't really need dice, back in the day we played AD&D a lot we often ended up with missing dice or totally flubbed and no one brought the dice! There used to be several damn good random number generator programs built just to streamline D&D fights. I'll do a search while at work and try to post some cool tools to help do this. Edited by: thal0012 at: 2/26/02 7:26:39 am

[Trolo]

Mmmm, I have an idea who LadyLuck over there is. /shrug... I might be totally off though.

Anyways!

I don't suppose, us all being newbies here, that ye could let me DM. I have about a newbies level of DMing... did it once!

Now I just need a few copies of those books... I'm sure they're lying around on the internet somewhere

/ducks from flying muffins slung by Glip

Edit: Alright, well, Bruenorr and I decided that I will DM and you all will be my slaves.

We're gonna go with 2E (in my opinion much simpler and friendlier for new gamers, and much more fun /cha-ching, points with Glip).

You all need a copy of the Player's Handbook, which you can find somewhere on the web in Adobe format I'm sure, and I'll gather up the rest of 'em.

And, everyone get a set of dice or a dice rolling program.

Everyone who wants to play, we can vote on a way to play... either message board, java chat, or chat program (mIRC, I'd say, as not everyone has AIM, ICQ, or MSN Messenger... this isn't assuming everyone has mIRC, but that it's a very easy-to-use program and it can stand the middle ground between people fighting over AIM vs. ICQ, etc... myself, I refuse to install ICQ on my system ). Edited by: Trolo Jesterkinng at: 2/26/02 8:57:58 pm

[EZ_FamiliarFaceV]

sounds good (yeah I know, wrong account ) Edited by: FamiliarFaceV at: 2/26/02 9:56:46 pm

[EZ_Lominga]

I would love to play with you guys too. I've never played D&D before but hell I'm a fast learner and an avid role-player, so I should catch on pretty fast. About voting for what kind of format, do we e-mail you? Or post here? Heh, this could get fun, imagine if we're all rogues...thieves...or assassins...

~Lominga

[EZ_CogginsEQ]

Well, I have AIM so I am partial to that.

But I am willing to try and get mirc and give it a go! I would even download msn and icq to join this, so im good to go with whatever!

Edit: Sigs just once per topic please. - SX Edited by: Shadowcross at: 2/27/02 3:55:24 pm

[Glip the Gnome]

Actually Trolo, I'm still pissed off at Hasbro, and I happen to have all the 2nd edition books on my computer as word files. Pictures and everything. I can send whoever needs them a copy.


Oh, and Coggins, this has nothing to do with anything but I also forget to tell you.

Remember this past summer when you were in West Commons at the druid port and it rained werewolves? I was standing right behind the GM at Verant's screaming "More, More!" when that happened.

[ShadowCross]

Glip: Upload it to the Bloodmoon Server and send me the link please, okay?

[EZ_CogginsEQ]

ROFL

That is so awesome, hehhe

I remember that event!!

That is hilarious, oh man! Thanks for sharing Glipper!

I was probably running around randomly like a chicken with my head cut off, as per the usual.

Edit: Sigs once per topic please. - ShadowCross Edited by: Shadowcross at: 2/27/02 3:54:26 pm

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

www.phonon.net/pub/adnd/

Tons and tons of books typed up (no pictures though).

If you wanna be a speciality class, talk with Trolo beforehand... Oh, and I've already okay'd a Ranger Forest Runner with him, so no one else take that

[EZ_DreamingofLostthings]

I have aim I can get mirc dun mind much. Will need someone to tell me how to set it up and get going with it. What dice are we going to need?

[Glip the Gnome]

I have no clue how to do that Shadow.

Post instructions in admin!

[ShadowCross]

Noob!

[EZ_Lominga]

hey Trolo, what's your e-mail? The one you have under yo name doesn't work... Oh and I gotta question about character creation (been reading the phb...) do you "roll" stats first the pick a class? Or do all you guys have your class predetermined? oh and one other question, can you actually die forever once you run outa con? Losing all the time you've spent on your character? Thanks in advance-

lominga

[Glip the Gnome]

The file went through okay then? I was a little worried it might be over the limit.

Was only 2MB but I have no clue what AOL allows.

[ShadowCross]

Glipo, just sent it to me too please, it's okay if it is just 2 MB.

[EZ_Lominga]

yeah Glip, the file went through fine.

-Lominga

[Glip the Gnome]

Good deal.

And its sent SX.

[EZ_Zoogie]

Quote:
hey Trolo, what's your e-mail? The one you have under yo name doesn't work... Oh and I gotta question about character creation (been reading the phb...) do you "roll" stats first the pick a class? Or do all you guys have your class predetermined? oh and one other question, can you actually die forever once you run outa con? Losing all the time you've spent on your character? Thanks in advance-


First question depends on the DM. My DM just allows us to give us whatever stats we want, as long as he thinks they're fair and make sense.

Question about death is: Usually, unless there's a damned good reason for it, and I use "damned" literally, if you die you are dead forever.

[Elerion]

Quote: Usually, unless there's a damned good reason for it, and I use "damned" literally, if you die you are dead forever.

I suppose you are talking of constitution death here? Because at higher levels when the priests have resurrect spells, you can die 10 times in a game session and be resurrected each time (unless you run out of constitution, or get "gored")

As for your first question, there are a billion ways to make your characters. In my latest campaign I simply asked my players to come up with a name, class/race, preferred weapons/spells, background, and general stat distribution (ex. "My warrior wants high constitution and stremgth, but you can dump his intelligence, wisdom and charisma low"), and I made the characters. Saves a LOT of time in the first session, and all the characters are rougly equal. With inexperienced players, whole campaigns can be thoroughly ruined if one character is a lot more/less powerful than the others, which often happens if players get to make their own chars.

[Glip the Gnome]

Whaaa!?

You didn't let them roll up their own characters? But thats half the fun!

/faint

[Elerion]

It's also 3+ hours of the game session when half of them have never played D&D before :">

[Koru]

Hey, if you guys decide to try it out I might be interested in stopping by and checking it out - if it's ok with y'all that is. Just gimmie stats (time, channel).

Aww Elerion, you don't like drow wild mage/psionic/anti-paladins?

[EZ_Zoogie]

Quote:
I suppose you are talking of constitution death here[/i]

In two years of playing with my DM, he only had an NPC priest ressurection one thing.

It was a dog.

Needless to say, this DM kept his players on their toes. My first character (centaur magician) died a month after I started playing, but my next character (clockwork thief) survived longer.

Character advancement was always pretty slow with him, so none of our spell casters ever got a high enough level to perform ressurections/reincarnations.

However, the background of one of the characters was a Paladin who had been reincarnated in the form of a kobold with 4 STR and 5 CON. That was funny.

[Elerion]

Actually the best reason to make the characters based on new players' wishes instead of letting them make them themselves, is to keep them away from numbercrunching and trying to make the "best" character. If you have never played RPG's before, you are used to playing games where "winning" is the goal. Therefore, new players will always seek the strongest class/race and the highest stats, instead of making a character they want to roleplay. By giving them a list of classes and races (and explaining them briefly what they are and do, NOT the rules related to the classes), they will hopefully choose the kind of character they will like to roleplay.

And of course, like I said, it prevents the session from being mucked up by unequal characters and the following envy. (I also started them at level 3, to fit the storyline, and to skip the first two levels where mages are nothing more than a laughing matter in the hands of an inexperienced player, ruining their fun)

[Koru]

Heh, people grow out of this though. Most of them do at least, some just never get past mini-maxing.

The characters I've enjoyed the most have all been considered underpowered. The slightly neurotic scholarly mage who in a dangerous situation involving goblins would start to tell everyone about the facinating goblin culture (I think the only spells he had were rope trick, detect good, and read magic). The little middle age halfling housewife turned to warrioring to save her farm (and keep the PCs from getting sick in that awful awful cold). The cowardly bard with a bad case of stagefright...

It's not so bad getting a char handed to you, there's still lots you can do to customize them.

[EZ_Lominga]

hey, do you guys know when we're going to do all this. I'm fairly new at PnP so i am wondering if Trolo needs time to figure out the campgain or something. I'd really hate us to not do this 'cause we all lazy rogues and no one will take any initiative I'm just in the dark and looking for some light. See ya guys around-

Lominga

[EZ_Zulian]

I'm still saying we should go with something like OpenRPG, but even if you go AIM or IRC or something (ICQ's mutli-person chat isn't that great), I still might be intrested.
But I'm with Lominga, are we going Forgotten Realms? I think that's what a lot of people would be familiar with, seeing as how lots of us have played the Baldur's Gate series. "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[EZ_Xaaron Swiftblade]

AIM's chatrooms can prolly handle it, I've seen alot of you safehousers in them there rooms.

[Llabak Tharr]

The game that I play uses mIRC. Our DM has a bot that does all our dice rolling for us, and we can get and send private messages to other players or the DM. One of the guys in the group started writing his own chatroom software, but it was kinda buggy and then he got busy IRL and so we went back to mIRC.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure why we ever wanted to switch in the first place, since IRC is pretty durn stable

One thing of warning for a prospective DM. We've got 7(?) in our group now, and our DM feels overwhelmed at times, taking care of handling private messages, whatever dialogue he's taking care of in the main room, and typing up descriptions of the things we see, even when he has a lot of the stuff typed up beforehand to cut and paste it into IRC. Of course it certainly doesn't help that our group hasn't managed to do what he 'wanted' us to do yet, in 2 years of gaming LOL.

Anyhoo, I'd strongly suggest that if you get an online game going, either you have 2 DMs, one to do the grunt work and one to handle the NPC interactions, or you limit the group to 6 or fewer players. The alternative is frustration by both the DM, who is always a couple lines behind the action, and the players, who don't think that they're getting the attention they need for when they are attempting to do some action or another, and the DM doesn't see a message they send because he's busy dealing with something else.

Edit: I'll have to find out what the scoop is on the dice program and get back to you. I believe it is something that our DM has set up in his IRC stuff, since I just logged into our chatroom by myself and the dice function didn't work for me Llabaktharr Gigglegiggler
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Can ya dig it?Edited by: Llabak Tharr at: 3/3/02 11:40:00 am

[Koru]

Anything but ICQ. I've yet to have a chat in ICQ in which no one drops out or just plain can't be invited and then everyone has to make a new chat. I'd rather use letter pigeons than ICQ's chat.

[Llabak Tharr]

Here ya go

Click here and all will be revealed!

I actually didn't even look at it, I took his word for it and cut and pasted the link he gave me

[EZ_Tweil]

That dice program looks pretty darn good for mIRC. I am very interested if someone starts up a game with either helping out dm-ing or just having a blast playing.

Tweil

[EZ_Zulian]

Here's what I say, since I think it was Bruno and Trolo who held the two man vote to elect the GM, I say you let me hold a one man vote to say we rotate GMs for each campaign, that way we don't have Trolo killing us off with big fuzzy bunnies every campaign :P "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

I agree with Zulian. I'm afraid Trolo is gonna turn this into Monty Python early on and it'll let newbs learn to GM.

[Trolo]

Meep!

No Monty Python, bite me.

Lot to read here.

Let's see... no, I will not be giving out free ressurections. Dead is dead.

As for stats... well, let's see, I have two people that want to play special ranger classes and I'm letting them roll on a special roll table that makes it quicker. Basically, there are predetermined sets of stats (There are 12 sets, each with varying numbers in each stats... you roll a d12 and get one set of stats, instead of rolling each stat separately.) If we could find one that worked for every class, that'd be great and make it quicker.

That or I can just have you roll out each stat independently.

Also, to each his own... you can decide your character in any order you want. Roll stats first, create class/race, go back and change... whatever. I have plenty of time.

I'm sure I'm going to be doing a lot of work and you with me.

How many do we have? I'd like a quick head count please. Everyone that wants to play, post a "Me" or an "I"... you get the gist.

Thanks.

Edit: Oh, e-mail = urza9082@hotmail.com

Edit 2: Oh, Zulian, I finally got around to reading your reply. I've DMed once and off the top of my head I was able to create enemies that my friend's characters were able to kill with challenge but not death. I doubt I'll be killing you off... unless you anger me I'll try my hardest to challenge but not kill you... unless you want to die (I like doing very risky stuff with my characters ) Edited by: Trolo Jesterkinng at: 3/4/02 7:11:00 pm

[EZ_Lominga]

me!

and I have no objections to pink fuzzy rabbits. I think their rather masculine.

[EZ_Zulian]

Well, if it's Forgotten Realms, I suppose I'm in. "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

I'm in, of course.

(Yes, it's Forgotten Realms, Zul)

[Koru]

I'm in if I can figure out how to work mIrc or whatever program y'all pick.

And I don't mind bunnies so long as I get to eat minstrels!

[EZ_Tweil]

I'm in!

What setting will we be using? Will we be able to 'invent' our own prestige classes? Will all the add-on books (prestige classes) be fair game?


Email
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AIM
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Tweil

[EZ_Zulian]

mIRC sux0rz, for the record :P
pIRCh all the way :P
Edit: Oh, but my first vote *is* for AIM too :P "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry PratchettEdited by: Zulian at: 3/5/02 5:26:55 pm

[EZ_DreamingofLostthings]

I'm in just let me know which chat program were going to use. I'm rather partial to aim but I can learn any of em.

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Well kids, this is what you can expect in the campaign...


urza9082: Okay, you have just entered 'The Tavern With a Man Shrouded In Darkness In the Back Corner Inn'
Aaron Of AZ: Right.. I head inside.
urza9082: Ok, you go into the bar and there's a guy with a big black cloak in the back corner
urza9082: He's trying to not be noticed
urza9082: But his big, black cloak kind of gives him away
Aaron Of AZ: Is he smoking a pipe, too?
urza9082: Yes, a pipe
urza9082: And you can't see his face
urza9082: That's the key
urza9082: But you can bet it's rugged, unshaven, and damned handsome
urza9082: So you screw around a bit
urza9082: And get drunk
Aaron Of AZ: *Hic*
urza9082: And he yanks you into a room and pulls from his pants...
Aaron Of AZ: "No, not that! You're disgusting!"
urza9082: Oops, sorry. Anyways, he pulls out his half broken sword
Aaron Of AZ: "Dude, you trip and fall on that or something? How long'll it take to heal?"
urza9082: And he's like "Yo, I'm Aragorn, I'll be your guide for this quest... if you look to the left you can see the Black Riders"
urza9082: "And they're trying to kill us, so let's duck into this other room and I'll tell you about my cool sword... I like swords... I have another sword, and it's big"
Aaron Of AZ: "ooooh... big sword"
urza9082: "Ha! Well this broken one is even bigger, if I could get it fixed, damn it"
Aaron Of AZ: "Ooooh... bigger sword. Sword envy"
Aaron Of AZ: *drunken laugh*
Aaron Of AZ: Bwahaha
urza9082: Ok, so, like, the guy shows you his sword
urza9082: And tells you that he's not really named Aragorn
urza9082: But actually named Tim
urza9082: He says that if you wish to find the Holy Grail, you gotta follow him
urza9082: So, you follow him, and end up watching a fierce battle between a few knights
urza9082: It's the one in black defeats the one in green in a most horribly bloody way
urza9082: And you try to get past now that the battle is over
urza9082: After telling you that you are repressing him and you try and push him aside, he claims that 'now he sees the violence inherent in the system' and he attacks you
Aaron Of AZ: I shoot him in the head!
Aaron Of AZ: Twice!
urza9082: Alright
urza9082: After a fierce battle, you claim his arms and legs as trophies and continue on, being called a 'nanny girl' the whole way
urza9082: He is extra mad
urza9082: And tries to hop after you because of those arrows
urza9082: and his torso just falls over and he eats dirt
urza9082: You outrun him, though.. And that's all for tonight!

[Trolo]

BAH!

THAT NEVER HAPPENED!

At least not how Bruenorr did it...

He did some creative editting. Edited by: Trolo Jesterkinng at: 3/5/02 9:19:55 pm

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Yeah, I did a little of that We were just tossing around different plot ideas, and.. y'know.

(Don't oust him, he'll make a good DM!)

[Trolo]

Ok.

Read over the 'I'm ins' and, counting Koru, we have 6.

That sounds about enough for one DM.

DreamingofLostThings, are you Andreas Aulie on AIM? I promised that person a spot, so I'll give him/her one no matter how many others we have. And Bruenorr, he's got a spot too.

I think I'm gonna call it at 6. If I get a helper DM, I'll take more, or another DM can just start another campaign.

[EZ_Tweil]

My regular sunday game played at a friends house started out as two seperate groups heading towards the same goal in game (without either group knowing). Now we are one huge gruop (I think like 11 people and 3 or 4 lacky NPC's).

Ok, so a couple things I would like to know.

What software?

What date/time?

Someone willing to do a website/message board?
(I am a programmer and web type guru so willing to help)


I already came up with a couple concepts depending on party make up. Which leads to to another questions...will we know ahead of time the other classes in the party? (I would hate to see 6 druids, hehe (that was a bad joke)).

Tweil

[EZ_DreamingofLostthings]

No thats not me. My im is Ninaraduskwalker. I was the one with the other special ranger class, and the person who brought up the special roll idea.

[Trolo]

Oooh, /bonk

Yeah, you're the one I promised the spot too.

Damn, I've got like three things going on that cause me to get new IM names on my list every few days, so I can't keep up.

Ok, so we got 6.

That sounds good. Why doesn't everyone post here what class/race they want (sides Ninara and Bruenorr) and put at least 2 or 3 selections depending on what we get.

We already have two rangers, so no more rangers.

[EZ_Tweil]

Well, I have a couple concepts, really will try and fit in wherever we need it the most....

Gnome Wizard
Dwarven Fighter
Elven Cleric
Human Paladin

I have cool little characteristics and ideas for all of them. Leading towards the gnome or dwarf.

Tweil

[EZ_Zulian]

I'm leaning towards wizard...But first, someone send me the word 2nd edition doc :P "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[EZ_DreamingofLostthings]

Zulian which one yah need I can dig up most of em. E mail me at Ninaraduskwalker@aol.com and I will send yah which ever ones yah need

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Trolo already knows, but just so everybody else does, too...

Human ranger (specifically, forest runner kit)

[Koru]

I can play mostly anything other than paladins, so if ya need someone to fill in any class gaps I'm game for that. It's not wise though to let me have mass destruction spells, I ah, have been known to revert to NE when it comes to minor spell decisions. (like, do I cast this fireball and incinerate my friends as well as the bad guy or just hope they can hack the bad guy by themselves?) I figured they deserved it for making me pick fireball rather than a funny non-combat spell. The bastards.

So mainly I'm thinking fighter, multi classed cleric, or thief of the usual vanilla races. We're talking 2nd ed here right? What kits would you have open, the 2 FR book kits? The class book kits? Tymoran cleric, possibly multi'd, sounds like fun. Wanted to play one for a while.

[Llabak Tharr]

2nd edition books

There's a magic book in there and a wizard book.

[EZ_Tweil]

Are we playing 3ed or 2ed?

And I was thinking maybe a Dwarven Cleric (Moradin of course)

Tweil

[Trolo]

2E, as I said earlier.

Hmmm, Koru, I think a multi-classed cleric would fit very well. We have no other cleric volunteers yet, so I think I'll say that I'd prefer that over something else, unless someone else says they would do a cleric.

Zulian, wizard for you, that would be good.

Two rangers, wizard, multi'ed cleric (maybe cleric/thief... that would be an interesting combo). That sounds like a pretty good party.

Tweil, you said you're out, right? You didn't want to play 2E?

[Koru]

I can think of nothing as appropriate as a Tymoran cleric/rogue. Sitting around praying for good luck is for wusses, real clerics make their own luck (with other people's funds)! It's not as if say, the Red Wizards were using all that gold for anything important. Certainly nothing as important as a really big party!

[Trolo]

Red Wizard? Or Red Mage?!



The most versatile class EVAR~~!~!~!@@@~!@~!!@~!2`2`12~11~1~12`2~!1!1`~1`@2 ~!2!1`~1!`23`1~!2!!1@3@#~1@~!~!

(Ok, two 8-Bit references to the same person in one day is so uber. I am your master!)

[EZ_Lominga]

Well, what classes do you guys need now? i'm pretty flexible and i don't really mind playing any single class (with the exception of clerics and paladins, or any healing class for the matter... Eq has destroyed my likeness of playing healers, because whever i try to heal I end up healing the monster half the time...) oh, and also, depending on the time we play, I may not be able to join you. My parents have this stupid rule that i can only go on the net past nine (thats mountain standard time...) so if It's any earliers than that, I'm afraid I won't be able to play

`lominga

Oh, and that comic with FF1 was great. That was the first game I actually enjoyed (got it when I was 6). Great memories...very great memories...

[EZ_Zulian]

Hey Trolo, what would you say to this, I pulled it from one of the books from the link above :P

Dimensionalist: This uncommon specialist is a student of magic that relies on the manipulation of space, time, and dimension. The dimensionalist is familiar with all kinds of extradimensional pockets, planes, and sources of power. While other wizards can make use of these dimensions, the dimensionalist has a much clearer understanding of what he is doing and why when he casts spells of this school. Non-Euclidean geometry and planar relationships are diffi*cult material, even for a wizard; a character must have an Intelligence (Intelligence/Reason in the Skills & Powers rules) of 16 or better to grasp the more esoteric concepts required to master this kind of magic.

The school of dimensional magic is listed in Appendix 3 of this book. It includes spells such as rope trick, dimension door, distance distortion, and maze. Dimensional magic is opposed by the schools of enchantment/charm and necro*mancy, since these philosophies have nothing to do with extraplanar studies or spells.

The dimensional specialist gains the normal advantages for specialization as described earlier in this chapter; spells belonging to the school of dimensional magic are listed in Appendix 3. At 8th level, the dimensionalist gains the power to disappear by stepping into a pocket dimension once per day. While in the pocket dimension, he is detectable only by spells that can discern dimensional openings and is immune to any attack, but he also has no way of knowing what's hap*pening in the place he left until he chooses to step back into the real world. The dimensionalist may remain for up to one hour before he is forced to exit and can take any actions he desires (sleeping, reading, drinking a potion, or so on) while inside. Note that the pocket dimension's point of exit is always the exact same place the dimensionalist entered the dimension. Also, no spells that would allow the dimensional*ist to leave the pocket without first reentering the real world can function in the extradimensional place, including teleport, dimension door, shadow walk, and similar enchantments. At 11th level, the dimensionalist may bring one other human-sized creature or an object weighing less than 500 pounds with him; at 14th level, he may bring up to five companions or an object weighing 1,500 pounds.

The dimensionalist is a very unusual wizard, with access to some of the strangest spells in the game. A high-level dimensionalist can be a confounding opponent, calling on rarely seen powers to trap or misdirect his enemies. Dimen*sionalists have few attack spells, but excel in avoiding trouble or circumventing obstacles.

Edit: Oh, and even though it's not actually part of the FR setting AFAIK, in BG2: LoD, the main character got the same type of ability, so it isn't really out of place in FR.
"Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry PratchettEdited by: Zulian at: 3/8/02 12:43:47 am

[Trolo]

Sounds a bit powerful to me.

With just two rangers, a multi'ed cleric, and a wizard you guys would already be a bit overpowered, but with such a specialized and probably quite powerful wizard class, I think that would push it beyond the edge.

I think I'll probably limit you to the most basic wizard classes... Sorcerer, Illusionist, and... Summoner, is it? Something like that.

[EZ_Bruenorrdorfo]

Hey Zulian, what about Academician?

Description: The Academician is a learned scholar whose love of knowledge is matched only by his preoccupation with research. He is fascinated by magic in all its forms and enjoys nothing more than poring over arcane texts and experimenting with exotic magical devices.

The Academician spends so much time involved in intellectual pursuits that he tends to neglect his physical skills. He is not a particularly good fighter and avoids combat when he can, preferring negotiation and parley to violence. Still, he recognizes the necessity of combat in certain instances, and will fight valiantly when required.

Academicians can be found in virtually any culture, but they are most likely to come from large urban areas that provide ready access to libraries, museums, laboratories, and other resources.

A character must have a minimum Intelligence of 13 and a minimum Wisdom of 11 to become an Academician.

There are no special rules for abandoning this kit. An Academician who becomes disillusioned with the academic life or loses interest in intellectual pursuits can choose to neglect his studies or research, but he is free to resume them at any time.

Preferred Schools: The Academician is intrigued by all the schools of magic, but is especially drawn to schools with a wide range of spells, including alteration, illusion, and invocation/evocation.


Not really overpowered, as they tend to be very physically weak and they specialize in only one or two schools. (And it'd be funny to roleplay.. the poor scholar, hunting kobolds/goblins/gnolls)

[Koru]

Yeah, he could be like the Giles to our scoobie gang. You know, read a lot of books, get ignored, act stuffy, get knocked unconcious all the time! Fun stuff!

[EZ_Zulian]

Awwww, so is wild mage out of the question? :P "Age and wisdom don't always go together, I've found. ... Some people just become stupid with more authority." -- Terry Pratchett

[Trolo]

Now that Koru mentions it...

We need a great dane who has the ability to talk half-humanly and stay intoxicated 24 hours of every day.

Are ye up for it, gnoll boy?

[EZ_Xaaron Swiftblade]

crap is it too late to join? If not I'd like to play a Half-elf ranger plain n simple

[EZ_Nightshade Rose]

Ack another ranger that would be three.

[Elerion]

2E Rangers are overpowered in the first 3-4 levels, thats why

[Trolo]

2 rangers is enough, sorry Xaaron, hehe.

[EZ_Xaaron Swiftblade]

How bout an Half-elf fighter specialized in longbow?

[EZ_Pearll]

I'd be interested in playing, but having never played Forgotten Realms, I'd probably need somebody to hold my hand for a while.

[Glip the Gnome]

Forgotten Realms is really easy. Its layed out so an infant can understand it. Very cut and dry.

(Bad guys live here. Good guys live there kind of thing)

Not trying to put it down or anything either, I played in it and had a great time for years.

[EZ_Gnarwar Floatingbuffalo]

oo oo, can i play too?

2e eh?

never really did forgotten realms...what races does that alllow?

[EZ_Gnarwar Floatingbuffalo]

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