D&D 3.5 (War of the Races)

[wezzyfish]

It is late winter and yet the first heavy snow has just begun to fall, turning the roads to slushy mud and making dry wood difficult to find. The village of Humberl lies at the edge of the Forest of Silence with a road traveling north all the way to the large city of Garlstown, where the king of gnomes reigns, and south through the human kingdom of Norbon. The village of Humberl is small and diverse in racial makeup, though monstrous humanoids are rare. For the last few weeks, there have been stories of creatures in the woods with a few disappearances and abandoned caravans have been found, looted and sometimes with bodies still laying among the wreckage. In Humberl, the villagers whispered of dark times, but tried to carry on with their normal lives as if nothing was wrong.
That was until last night. Creatures riding wolves with glowing eyes emerged from the snow-shrouded night carrying torches that were used to put buildings aflame. Larger armored figures moved among them, putting women and children to the sword as readily as the men who tried to fend them off. The clash of steel on steel and the more horrifying sound of steel rending flesh and cries piercing the night filled the village with its terrible song. In a matter of minutes that seemed like hours, the creatures had left, leaving many of the buildings in flame, including the Temple of Pelor, Toni’s General Store and quite a few houses. Most families were left grieving lost loved ones, and the next morning woke early to set about digging graves beside the Temple of Wee-Jas, which managed to escape the entire onslaught.

The characters all find themselves in Humberl, either having been there through the attack, assisting in some way or hiding, or having just arrived in the early hours of the morning. The villagers move about as if lost in a fog of disbelief and fear and any strangers riding in are at first shied away from before they obviously bring no harm. No child is anywhere to be seen as in the night the surviving children were being gathered by the priestess of Ehlonna to be taken to a place of refuge. The mayor, who also happens to be the cobbler, calls for a meeting to take place midday at the inn to discuss what to do about the attack.

I am the final arbiter for anything. Arguing with me, especially outside of a PM will most likely get your character eaten by a dragon. I am big on rules and following them, but I might take a little freedom from time to time for the sake of the story. I will not however, control the actions of your characters without permission (like if you will be absent for a time). If absent, I will keep your character around and in play, but I won’t have them make important decisions for the group or do anything stupid to get them killed.

Sexual innuendos are fine, but let’s not get too crazy and graphic.
Cursing is fine; though don’t allow it to clutter your descriptions. It should be restricted to dialogue with little exception.
Do not flame other characters or call them out to get a rise out of them or make them feel stupid. If anyone gives you a hard time, please come to me. If I find anyone is harassing another player, I will kill their character off and find a replacement. Let’s all get along

I expect everyone to post at least once a day. It doesn’t have to be crazy and long, but I don’t want any one line posts either. Feel free to take a little bit of liberty with unimportant NPCs or aspects of the story to keep things moving, but don’t get too far ahead or try to take control of any noteworthy NPCs. If in doubt about something, don’t do it, but I’m pretty forgiving and appreciate a little initiative. (because it means I go first!!! lol, jk )

Oh and though I’m 28 years old, my humor is often stupid and childish, I love playing with words and nerdy jokes… don’t mind me, just because I reward the experience points doesn’t mean you have to laugh

If you must be out of commission for a time, no worries, I understand life is crazy... mine can be too. I’m sure late November or early December I may have to take a few days to adjust to our new baby, but I will always let you guys know if it’s anything longer than a day of absence. I would just ask that you show the same courtesy and let us know how long you’ll be gone so I can make arrangements for your character.

If you take longer than a day to post something (especially in combat situations), I may take a little liberty with your character to keep things moving. The best way to avoid this is to stay active

I don’t necessarily enjoy rewarding well written posts, as I think it should be done anyway, so I typically won’t. However, if one strikes me as particularly great, or a character does something really clever or even stupid with great role-playing, I may just toss in a small experience bonus. Just as an incentive to keep you all trying hard

Now my #1 rule: have FUN! Talk to me through PM if you start losing interest or you’re just not finding it much fun anymore. I will always be willing to talk about anything and am open to ideas from players on how a game should go. Need more action? More roleplaying? Have a particular goal for your character that you want to see worked in? You’re just dying to use that craft skill? Just talk to me. You will find I’m very open-minded. That said, most of the people I’ve played tabletop with at least have told me that I’m a great GM, and I’m a fair writer, so I hope that I’m able to bring my A game and we have no issues

All characters must be of non-evil alignment. If you insist on being evil, contact me in PM to discuss the possibility but be prepared for me to turn you down.

Each character will start at level 1 and stats will be determined by the point buy system set up in the DMG. 42 points may be distributed among the stats however you see fit.

Core classes and races are fine of course, but any outside source material or variant rules must be checked with me first. If you plan to work your character towards a particular prestige class, let me know so I can make sure that the story and build of your character are going in that direction.

In addition to the normal character information, each must also include a description, personality and biography. Your skill set must be reflected by your background. I don’t care if you were raised by a blacksmith, spent all your life in a forge and plan to return to one, if you don’t have the craft skill to back it up, you aren’t making anything and I’ll assume you paid no attention to your father at all! A good way to make sure you hit all the points is to look through the skill list you decide on and use that to help you write your background.

For starting equipment, any mundane items that make sense with the character are fine. The amount of money and equipment you carry will be greatly determined by your background. No magical items are allowed and only 1 masterwork item of some sort if you wish, but its importance to you must be hinted at in the biography. All items must make sense with being carried on your character in some fashion. If you don’t have a cart, I wouldn’t have 20 days of feed for your horse as an example. Or if you don’t have a horse, I wouldn’t carry 20 torches... unless you have pretty much nothing else. Otherwise, I’m not too worried about the rules on weight restrictions. I see them more as a general guideline.

I am looking for a diverse group, because diversity adds flavor to the game. That does not mean I won’t allow two rogues or duplicates of any other class, but I want each character to be unique, with their own flavor. There are many ways to diversify a group outside class, via feats, skills, race and personality.

To begin with, I will be accepting 4-6 characters. The first 6 that post completed sheets that I have OK’d will get in. I also look at writing skill. It doesn’t have to be spectacular, but put some heart into those backgrounds, personality and appearance, for a bunch of good writers make for a much more interesting game than not. The fact that this is in the free roleplaying section doesn’t give allowance for laziness.
If you do not get in the start, I will consider adding one or two later on IF everything is running smoothly, yet the more people we have to wait on to post the slower the game moves, so I will do so only with much consideration.

Accepted Characters:
Sesakal "Ragnarok" Bloodbane - Dragonborn Paladin
Alphonse - Human Rogue
Lucile Lillian -Human Scout
Cloud Morn - Artathi Ranger
Seljha Rosethorn - Lizardfolk Druid
Owen - Human Cleric of Lastai
Cassandria - Human Shadowcaster
Lilyana Kabal - Elf Bard

[ShifterMaster]

Alphonse

Reserving spot will be editing with more Information as I get it typed out

current stats http://invisiblecastle.com/stats/view/30718/

Alphonse

[mew77]

Name: Lucile Lillian
Age: 17
Gender: female
Race: Halfling
Class: Rogue

Physical Description: Lucile is built thin and agile. She wears hand-me-down robes in a bright blue and yellow design sewn by her mother. She's modified the robes to include inner pockets which she keeps a substantial collection of special iron needles. Lucile has blue eyes and dark black hair that is braided. She wears footwraps and fine shoes.

[B]Personality: Lucile was bored with the family trade causing her to retreat to violent, unladylike hobbies to pass the time. She is moody and quick to anger, but is usually very calm and sweet.


History: Lucile /was the youngest daughter of 5. Three boys and two girls. She was not the favorite, that honor went to her older sister Anita. her mother was a seamstress and also the village tailor, while her father was the blacksmith. She tanned the leathers while he added metal bits to make it into armor. She unlike her sister was only taught the basics of sewing and mostly left to her own devices as her mother tended the shop. Which lead to several close calls as Lucile seemed to have a fondness for the myraid needles and weapons that were scattered all over the corners of thier house. Her father nurtured her unladylike interests and even brought her out on one or two hunts. As she got older that love of needles and the special polearm called the glaive marked her as the wild child of the household and in the small village that notion passed on to the other children who wouldn't have anything to do with her. She spent her days playing with the glaive, slowly teaching herself the proper use for the weapon. Her mother did not approve of her hobby and encouraged her to play with the other children who would not be persuaded to play with her. Eventually her older sister Nadia gave in and taught her sewing. She was happy for a time. Her parents were by no means poor, on dresses and finery alone the family managed to turn a profit. She was rarely needed around the shop as her mother had her other four sisters to help manage the shop.



Skills/Occupation: Lucile has skills as a tailor, but is worse at it than her sisters. She is adept at throwing needles and is able to fling them quickly and precisely. The needles can only cause surface wounds but as she can pincushion you, those pricks add up quickly.


Relationships with other Characters: Lucile knows most everyone in the small village and is known to the blacksmith and his family as the strange girl who always came to get her glaive fixed.

[wezzyfish]

ok Mew, looks like a great start I like the character. One question about the background. Is that village that she is from the same that is attacked at the start? or is she now traveling for some reason?

Just need to start writing up the actual stats for the character now gj

@ Shifter: those stats look good, can't wait to see what you make out of it

[GrievousKhan]

::Accepted::
Shifter Master: Alphonse, Human Rogue
Grevious Khan: Sesakal 'Ragnarok' Bloodbane, Dragonborn Paladin
Mew: Lucile Lillian, Human Scout
Greycat: Cloud Morn, Artathi Ranger
Sikako: Seljha Rosethorn, Lizardfolk Druid (Siron, viper animal companion)
Valmarus: Cassandria, Shadowcaster
Squints: Owen, Cleric of love

[mew77]

@wezzy fish

I'm going to assume it is the same village.

I'll have my CS up tommorow I guess.

[wezzyfish]

sounds good Mew.

@ Grievous: not anything dire, as you have your hit points correct, but you still have on your character sheet 4d10 as your hit dice ;p

[GrievousKhan]

sounds good Mew.

@ Grievous: not anything dire, as you have your hit points correct, but you still have on your character sheet 4d10 as your hit dice ;p

I thought you placed your con mod +4, to your class hit die. Well i'll remove it until later, and look it up maybe. For some reason I always forget how to do HP.

Despite it's importance.

[wezzyfish]

lol ya. You don't add the con modifier to the hit dice, only to the actual number of hit points gained each level. so you are 1d10 HD with 14 (10+4) hit points. Every level, you will roll and add 4 to the result to get your new hit points.

[wezzyfish]

also, you don't get goblin as a language, only common and draconic. With your -1 to intelligence, that is all you get

Your background is well written and very interesting, good work on it. I'll overlook the fact that your a "great warrior and leader" at level 1 for the sake of story. You are a paladin after all Make those slight changes to Hit Dice and language and your character is accepted