Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
This forum is used with the NationStates web-game designed and run by Max Barry. While not officially affiliated, this serves as the regional forum for the regions: Middle East, African Continent, American Continent, Asian Continent, and European Continent.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and can "read only".

In order to get the most out of these forums, please become a member and read this guide - http://z3.invisionfree.com/nationstates/index.php?showtopic=3060


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
AD&D 2nd Edition Campaign; All this talk has me itchy...
Topic Started: Mar 6 2013, 02:52 PM (1,889 Views)
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
On magic spells, I am allowing everyone who has access to spells to choose what they want within what their class or specialty allows them (druids can only learn spells from certain spheres, and illusionists cannot learn spell from the schools of necromancy, invocation/evocation, or abjuration), with one exception: all wizards (mages and any specialty wizards like illusionists) must have read magic and detect magic. These do count as part of your total spells. There are recommendations I will make. Clerics should most definitely pick bless and cure light wounds, and mages would be smart to have magic missile. But it is up to you, aside from that one exception. Note that priests can also choose detect magic as a spell, but I'm not requiring it for them. They fill a different role than mages.

Now, when you level up, you get to choose which spells you want to research, but I'm not going to just give it to you. We will go by the rules for that. The way I'm doing it for your starting spells is well within the rules; it's just not the exact recommendation.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
I feel I have brushed up enough on the material to start the campaign, at least as far as doing a simple quest for our first session. I just need to come up with the quest, and that I can do in a very short amount of time. Anyways, how does this Saturday, March 30th, at 3 PM sound? Nag, tell me if that doesn't work for you and I can change it to a time you can work with. I don't want to have you miss sessions just because you live in a different country than most of us.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
Alright, taking the example character I made, here's a good basic character sheet if anyone else wants to make a character or anyone wants to reorganize their character. For now, this is how I'm recording your characters for my own reference.

Spoiler: click to toggle


EDIT: So, example, here's how I recorded E's character:

Spoiler: click to toggle


EDIT 2: For yet another example, here's how I recorded Nag's character, given she has spells and no armor or mount.

Spoiler: click to toggle


Note, you certainly don't have to record your character this way, and I'm certainly not going to stay with this method of recording. I'm probably going to make character sheets in a program like Microsoft Excel, like I used to back in the day.

EDIT 3: Now I'm starting to copy paste some things. NH's character:

Spoiler: click to toggle


EDIT 4: Al Araam's character

Spoiler: click to toggle


I think I want to draw this character. ^^

EDIT 5: Might as well post the other two characters.

ASA:

Spoiler: click to toggle


And meh:

Spoiler: click to toggle


Well, with six people, we have a very good party. meh's ranger/druid even covers blessing and healing should he choose such spells.

E, on your halfling bard, let's talk. I should be doing a lot of this in PMs anyways.
Edited by Sedulius, Mar 28 2013, 09:05 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
meh
Member Avatar
1st Lieutenant
 *  *  *  *  *  *
Spells: Bless, cure light wounds, entangle, magical stone, create water. Let me know if there are any other spells that are more needed.

And is this 3pm on Saturday eastern time? I should be able to do it regardless.
Edited by meh, Mar 28 2013, 11:46 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
New Harumf
Member Avatar
Bloodthirsty Unicorn
Saturday sounds good (so far)!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Allied States of Arv (ASA)
Member Avatar
Consortiums Ministrater
 *  *  *  *
Yes I did mean Fighter thanks for the catch and I'll rework my traits probably be right but able to do most non-combatant type things as well with his left (part of being a trained member of a Thieves/Assassin guild).
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
Ah, 3 PM Central Time. Sorry, should have said that. Bleh. But it really doesn't matter. I can do it any time in my afternoon. That's 4 PM Eastern Time, 1 PM Mountain, 12 PM Pacific...

8 PM GMT <---- I should just go by that for Nag. Is that a good time for you Nag?

ASA, the traits thing is just describing who your character is as opposed to his background. Like what are his personality quirks? Does he have scars? Maybe he has a favorite food? Things like that. It's not required. But you're thinking more along the lines of proficiencies when it comes to things he can do, which we aren't using yet but will eventually, so you can fill them out if you want to.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Nag Ehgoeg
Member Avatar
The Devil's Advocate

Spoiler: click to toggle

****

Am I right in thinking that I can have one level one spell prepared that I can cast once? Then I need to rest and prepare spells (well... spell) again if I want to cast again?

****

3 PM Central is fine.
Edited by Nag Ehgoeg, Mar 29 2013, 05:38 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
East Anarx
Member Avatar
Anarchitect

Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by East Anarx, Mar 30 2013, 12:50 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Rhadamanthus
Member Avatar
Legitimist

I kind of want to play, but I don't think that I'll have time to make up a character and learn the rules. So I might sit this one out, or possibly join at a later date if that is possible.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
meh
Member Avatar
1st Lieutenant
 *  *  *  *  *  *
Rhadamanthus
Mar 29 2013, 06:08 PM
I kind of want to play, but I don't think that I'll have time to make up a character and learn the rules. So I might sit this one out, or possibly join at a later date if that is possible.
Creating the character doesn't take much time at all. Plus, most of here don't understand the rules entirely :P

If you want, one of us can make a character for you, if you give us a general idea of what you want. You can always tweak it later.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Rhadamanthus
Member Avatar
Legitimist

Thanks meh, that's quite kind of you. I think actually I will try to skim the pdf tonight and hopefully post a character and play tomorrow if I can. Actually, what would be cool is if one of you could quickly summarize the race/class combinations present so far. It's always fun if characters can play different roles in the party.
Edited by Rhadamanthus, Mar 29 2013, 06:50 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
East Anarx
Member Avatar
Anarchitect

Here you go, RD,

Player/Character/Race/Class Breakdown:

Nag: Rose Brushfire: human mage
Al: Tkaln Stonebelly: dwarf fighter
NH: Glrch: gnome illusionist/thief
ASA: Evidon Starr: half-elf fighter/thief
meh: Gwrtheyrn: half-elf ranger/druid
E: Sunflower Deeproot: halfling bard
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
meh
Member Avatar
1st Lieutenant
 *  *  *  *  *  *
EDIT: E beat me to it.
Edited by meh, Mar 29 2013, 07:33 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Rhadamanthus
Member Avatar
Legitimist

Thanks guys! With six players already, would adding me be too much for Hraktuus? In any case, I want to be a ranger/cleric, which means half-elf, I think, if I'm reading this right. I'll try to work through character creation before I get to sleep today.

Edit: Actually, what you can be depends on your ability scores, right? I will roll using the d20 method that Hraktuus gave us in the initial post (role a d20 for each ability, rerolling under 10s and 20s).
Edited by Rhadamanthus, Mar 29 2013, 08:49 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Rhadamanthus
Member Avatar
Legitimist

Actually, after some further thinking, I'd really prefer to skip this session and maybe join next week or the week after if that is ok with Hraaktus.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
I think setting tomorrow as the date to actually start a quest might be too optimistic. Not all the issues with the characters are yet resolved, BUT those who can meet tomorrow, go ahead and come, and we'll discuss things and iron out any outstanding issues. I've got a decent campaign world coming along, but I don't need a whole world for one quest, and honestly at this point I'd be coming up with a quest very quickly for tomorrow. So, let's go ahead and push the first quest to around April 6, or an earlier day if it can work for everyone.

It won't be too hard for me to come up with a decent quest. I probably could come up with one overnight. But I have to resolve the halfling bard issue with E, all the characters with spells need to choose their spells, and everyone needs to roll their hitpoints.

The main oversight I made was... I haven't made a place for us to do this. I can do this overnight. All it would take is basically setting up a blog and embedding a chat in it. So something like blogger+chatango. With that, none of you would even need to sign up for an account for anything. But if anyone has a superior suggestion to this, I'm all ears. If we could do something with voicechat, something like ventrilo, that would work even better, because it would be closer to actually being in the room RPing with each other, BUT probably not all of you have microphone, nor do you want to install some voice chat software. The first option is the simplest. You might ask why not just do it on the forum, but the answer to that is obvious. It would take forever to play through a session where we had to wait for everybody to make posts. It's just impractical. If ultimately we decide we want to try that, we can, but for now we need to try instant messaging or voicechat.

RD, come on in. I'm not sure how many people I can handle, but as long as I stay organized with the numbers, I'll be fine on that end (the numbers are the easy part. The hard part is... I play the part of everyone and everything. I RP every NPC, government, creature, and force of nature. I think I can handle 7 players, but not much more than that. I'd say 3 is the minimum and 9 is the maximum. And I'm a beginning DM, so maybe I'm baptizing myself in fire here. So, we'll just have to see. This is experimental in the first place since we're doing 2nd edition through the internet. Anyways... RD, I want players to be any kind of character they want, within the provided rules (for now). If you want to be a paladin, I'm fine if you roll until you can get a paladin. Yes, my 1d20 method creates powerful characters. That's kinda the point. However, it is nice in that such characters will still have flaws. My old paladin, for instance, was a beast of a man that could slaughter orc after orc, but he himself could be hit rather easily. He survived partly on his ability to keep killing, partly on my quick thinking, but mostly on luck. So, I want you to read through the races, read though the classes, and pick what you want to be. Then roll until you get a set of six numbers that contains what you need. Like I said, I'm not going to accept characters with straight 18s, even though it does happen. Even if I saw you roll it, it's simply too powerful and unbalancing of a character to be acceptable. Anyways... ranger/cleric. Sounds good. Having two priests is always a good thing. ^^
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Rhadamanthus
Member Avatar
Legitimist

Hraktuus, thanks! I don't think I will be able to make it for tomorrow, but hopefully I can be there for the first quest next weekend. I'll work on a ranger/cleric then following the method you describe. :D
Edited by Rhadamanthus, Mar 29 2013, 09:26 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
Made the chat. This works for now.

http://adnd2e.chatango.com/

So if everybody can have their hitpoints rolled and spells chosen by tomorrow, we can do a session. I'll try to cook up a decent quest.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
meh
Member Avatar
1st Lieutenant
 *  *  *  *  *  *
I definitely wont be able to do April 6th. I'll be out of town for a MUN conference.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
I'll keep the chat I posted up on my computer tomorrow. So you guys can use it to talk about things if you want, and when I'm in my room I'll be able to answer any questions and what not. At 2 PM CST I'll make sure to be in my room to start getting things ready, and if we have at least 3 players ready to play, we can go ahead and start a session at 3 PM CST. I'll spend the morning coming up with a quest. I'm too tired tonight. Now, if other players want to join in later in the session, I might be able to work them in. Just do something like (Can I join in?) or OOC: Can I join in?

Make sure when you do get on that chat to set your name. Just do the temporary name. I think the best idea would be to use your character name so that way there's no confusion as to who is saying what. AND that way I'll associate the character less with who you are and more as, well, a player character.
Edited by Sedulius, Mar 29 2013, 09:59 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
New Harumf
Member Avatar
Bloodthirsty Unicorn
I have added spells to my character in my profile above. Would you do me a favor and roll for my hit points, etc. that I am missing??
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
Sure, NH. I'll do that. That reminds me, some people didn't put what their left over gold was. I'll go ahead and take care of that too. Just remember, it's both our responsibilities to keep track of your character.

By the way, you didn't have to make a chatango account for the chat. All you need to do is click on Set Your Name in the lower right corner, type your Character name into "With a Temporary Name", and click Go. And that's it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sedulius
Member Avatar
Field Marshal
Alright, E's halfling bard has been approved as an experimental character. I have had to make a new rule for that character's level limit, but that's really it. This doesn't mean that everyone can pick any race-class combination they want. The way thay'll work is when I consider the experiment with E's halfling bard to be a success, I'll allow everyone access to creating a character of that combination. If I consider it a failure (though that is unlikely), I'll ask E to retire the character. I'll do these experimental characters one at a time as players want to try them. I'll do the same thing when I introduce new playable races, and when and if I make new playable classes.

Just so you know, I will never approve a paladin of any race other than human. The reasoning behind this is even if I were to open all classes up to other races but the paladin, the paladin is such a powerful class that it would still give one advantage to humans. Of course, I'm probably never going to open up all classes, because having paladins just isn't enough of an advantage for humans. Hmm... BUT having paladins and unlimited levels might be... so... Maybe I'll give you guys the rest of the classes in time. But only through proper experimentation.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
meh
Member Avatar
1st Lieutenant
 *  *  *  *  *  *
Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by meh, Mar 30 2013, 03:12 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · Off-Topic · Next Topic »
Add Reply