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Welp. My dad decided that our family (translation: the kids in the family) should be without Internet. Since I have an iPhone, the only thing this does is make it harder for me to post on this forum. Apparently his idea of being internetless is just having to go through the aggravation of typing on an iPhone's keyboard.

Ok, heres a more complete response:

Dino: Please stop double posting. I know I just double posted, but I had a reason; I had a response typed but my phone hadn't posted it, so i posted that and am now responding to everyone else.


Hastur: As long as you post relevant info on whatever you're taking from other books, I'll approve of stuff on a case-by-case basis. Most material should be fine, though. If your god fits your alignment, it'll most likely be fine.

Ok, a couple problems with your character sheet: first off, your ability scores are inaccurate. You appear to be counting racial modifiers only in the final ability mod. Second, we're going with dnd armor, so you'll need to switch the japanese armor for standard armor. Final thing is that you shouldn't have bonus languages if you don't have a positive int mod. Apart from that, it looks pretty good. About flaming hammers, you could do that if, and only if, you have some flammable substance that I approve of that will stick to metal. One question, though. What does the Pyro feat actually do? Could you post its description?

Apparently I don't have permission to access that sheet. Is it a public sheet?

Also, could you post what you had rolled for stats by putting a link to Invisiblecastle?

Finally, I'd prefer if the stat bonuses were a bit closer to an average of zero. Maybe there could be a penalty to int or something. It's fine if they average to +1 or +2, but I'd prefer them to be no higher.

Level adjustment means the level the creature is counted as. So a level 1 bugbear fighter would have to be counted as a level 2 fighter when determining exp and encounter challenge levels. To fix that, you have to nerf the creature a bit.

Fake edit: ninja'd because my phone is stupid.

Cript, what do you mean when you say do people get like levels in this?

Dino, HP is determined by class. You wouldn't have to change it at all to make a LA 0 creature. And I still can't access the sheet. Are you sure it's set to public?

Do you happen to have access to Savage Species?

I'm afraid not. What's it about? Besides the obvious, I mean.

The idea of this campaign is to play as monsters instead of PC's. You choose a humanoid-ish monster and change it's stats until they're balanced, then play as it. You'll be forced to survive in the wilderness, fighting off adventuring parties that are after your loot, raiding towns, and (hopefully) not dieing. Rules for character creation and etiquette are below, as well as information on the game world are below.


Blurb on Gameplay:
Since you're considered monsters by 'civilized' folk, guards will have an attack-on-sight policy. You have a couple options in this matter; you could a) stay away from towns and raid small settlements, b) you could pull a ninja and sneak around doing monster-y stuff, or you could c) control a dungeon or camp for heroes to assault. Heck, you could do all three. Or you could think of other stuff to do. But be warned: Encounters won't be level-appropriate. Or more accurately, they just won't be fair for you. Think of all the level appropriate encounters you're groups have easily dispatched when you're playing as PCs. Now imagine you're the monsters you so cheerfully slaughtered.



We'll be using Hamachi to make a local network, and Maptool version b85 as the tabletop. Please download those if you don't have them and connect a bit early, because there's ALWAYS at least one connection problem when you use them.

One other oddity: I'm going to be both the DM and a PC. When I talk as the DM, I'll be impartial and very Spock-esque. When I talk as a player, I'll be normal. I'm going to play as if I had no clue what was happening. To me, playing as a character is really fun, but I have the campaign setting all thought through, and I'm wanting to have maps for everywhere. So I'll be making maps for whole towns, and I don't want to shunt the responsibility off to someone else.

Character List:
Araph : Ego Magicae : 1160 exp
Frelock : Meep : 560 exp
Barbarossa : Sesthorono : 450 exp
Choobakka : Hreeka the Striped : 150 exp
The King of the Weasels : Grail Darkdown : 1160 exp
Lord Braindead : Di'Rac : 710 exp
Atomicdremora : Va Kinspar : 1160 exp
Iituem : Snowflake Jack : 600 exp

Approved Additional Content:

Economics discussions aside, are enough people interested in starting a D&D group to validate making a group? And if so, what direction would it take? It seems like trade is turning into the main focus, but that may just be because it's being argued over more.