DM Greg's Red Hand of Doom

Game Master Algar Lysandris

OOC discussion here.

Game will start with the party going to Drelin's Ferry

Whether you are from Sterich or not you were hired to escort a jewel merchant heading to Brimdol via Drelin's Ferry, on the Old Dawn way.

You are currently West of Drelin's Ferry and will take 3-4 Days to get to that first stop.

You have already been paid for the job and its been a week's travel.

The merchant hired you as there is goblin's threat that have arose in the last few year as their attacks from the Wyrmsmoke Mountains, have been bolder and more frequent in the last year.

I'm interested to play. Wizard, Priest even a fighter.

I'm thinking for a background.

i had saved you a spot ilmakis

Oh wow, love how this mixes things up and disrupts most of the normal setting. I have no idea about a character at the moment, but will be working on one soon. Thanks for DMing!

all the info needed is on the campaign info tab...

Oh, I meant I haven't settled on a concept in my head yet, I saw all of the creation info.

Okay I've got a Fighter/barbarian standard greatsword guy I'm working on. I wish 3.5 had a great online SRD like pathfinder does, hunting down the sources for everything is a pain, though I think all but two things in my idea come from PHB and complete warrior.

Ask and the heaven's will open fourth and Thou Shalt Receive:

3.5 SRD

Dnd tools 3.5

I shall be playing a half-elf bard :p sticking to my roots here, I feel it is only fair since I played third edition greyhawk when I first started playing. Woooooo nostalgia!

Welcome to the party Jello :)

Party recap:

Ilmakis: Arcane or divine caster
Ashern: Front liner
Jello: Bard

Hey, half elf bards with a nice variety of feats and spell compendium to choose magic from are no freaking joke! I remember we had a friend who used charisma to hit, damage, and in addition could empower his performances somehow. I don't remember any of the details because I never played a bard, but I'm sure there are some cool tricks. Also you can never run out of performance rounds like you can in pathfinder.

*insert corny joke about buffing*

indeed there a whole lot of options for bard with feats / bardic performance feat and Prc..

I think I will play a priest of Hextor.

Sure.

as a reminder in the March of Sterich most people's alignment are LG, NG, LN*

while a have no problems should you wish to play L-E i know you can "pull" it off...

Hey, here is my character. I need to adapt the background and figure out some more equipment other than masterwork sword and armor.

Speaking of, if anybody had any suggestions for items that cost 3 grand of less... I'm a little out of practice with 3.5 equipment.

magic armor
magic weapon
ring of deflection
amulet of natural armor

Handy haversack
bag of holding type I
Lesser metamagic rod

Ashern FYI Destructive Rage is rather useless.

and my advice would be to buy a magic full plate (and lowering dex to 12)

your current AC should be 17 (+5 Armor + 2 dex)

Chainmail 150 gp +5 Armor +2 Dex -5 ACP

Character in progress...

@Ashern : a Cloak of resistance +1 is always a good item to have !

To all Characters:

please have this format for easy access (for me) to your relevant stuff like the example provided by this alias.

done !

Perfect :)

Ashern don't forget that you get a stat increase a 4th level

Hello everyone. DM Greg invited me to play as well.

I'll try to have a character built tonight (at least the basics). My current thoughts are arcane caster, either sorc, wiz or warmage (if allowed).

Been a busy weekend for me since I'm in the middle of moving. I'll be using the links DM Greg provided since my 3.5 books are currently in 1 of about 60 boxes I haven't unpacked yet.

Any thoughts, opinions, recommendations are always welcome.

Welcome Xzaral !

I think Arcane it's a good choice.
My experience in 3.5 is very light, so no advice from my part except for "play what you want".

I concur Trey (Xazral) was duly invited.

Trey no worries i am going to open recruitment thread for the 5th person

and yes warmage is allowed per my book selection

I will post the intro Gameplay post this sunday so don't worry try you have time

About to head to work, but thought I'd ask if anyone else has any ideas of a race that has a charisma bonus? Thus far the only thing I've found that doesn't have a level adjustment are spellscales from Races of the dragon.

By the way, are spellscales okay? lol. Guess the optimizer in me wants that charisma bonus.

Yes they are ok as per the rules set out for character creation.

you will be a bit of a freak as they are very exotic in the world of greyhawk.

+2 to char race are:

Aasimar +2 Wis/cha +1ELC

If I remember well I think Moon Elves have a charisma bonus, but I don't know If they are ok here

Moon Elves is the name for the Standard Elf sub race of FR (+2Dex -2Con)

the other FR specific are
Sun Elf +2 Int -2 Con
Wild Elf +2 Dex - 2Int
Wood Elf +2 Str +2Dex -2 Int - Cha - 2Con
Aquatic Elf +2Dex -2Int
Avariel +4 Dex +2 Int +2 Wis -2 Con ECL +3

in Greyhawk you have only the standard Elf and their Darker cousin: the Dark Elf

Not to add, but Unapproachable East for FR had the Star Elf, which was +2 Cha and -2 Con, but I didn't mention that as it's an FR specific race and not listed as an available option. please don't kill my character! :)

I have invited our 5th and last player: Da Way.

so we will be good to go for departure this sunday.

And yes Trey i will try my best to kill all of you (as said in the DM's notes)

Attention to you all:

DM Fanguar is letting me know that he is looking to 2 people to join his Age of Worms AP

http://paizo.com/campaigns/GmFanguarsAoW/discussion&page=4#180

Currently the party is level 2 with
Alchemist (ranged)
Life Oracle
Spellscar Oracle (me waiting to join, kinda of blaster type, but i can re do since my character hasn't been introduced yet)

(so the party need a heavy/tanky type obviously. Of if you don't know at the end of Age of Worms you get to fight an Elder Evil)

The game is slow but with me +2 heavy poster from here it should pick up.
Just write that Algar has sent you.

dunno about a 6 men party but if enough interest it can be asked in his OOC thread.

I am thinking of making some sort of druid, possibly wild elf or halfling.

Class recap

Ilmakis: Cleric
Ashern: Fighter
Jello: Bard
Trey: Arcane (possibly Warmage)
Daway: Druid

Welcome DaWay

As a reminder Dway: there are no wild elf sub race in Greyhawk (stat wise)

they do exist to a certain extend culturaly tough.

There is but only 1 elven kingdom (and its small)

some elven community exist in cities and some exist in the wild.

Since we have our 5 players:

I will open up the Gameplay Thread Today so that those of you with alias (even empty of crunch etc...) can start roleplaying to you heart's content between yourself while on the road.

Nothing will happen Gameplay wise until sunday. So don't worry about crunch til then.

To all : my native langage is not english, so don't be surpised when I write something strange or not grammatically right :P
Don't hesitate to correct me.

Flo: "when i Write" it's present not past :)

Thks :P

Mistake corrected !

please note that I am busy starting a new career 3000 miles away from where I am used to, with my family My posts will be there but sometimes minimally.

GM: would there be any way that I could use the races of eberron class substitution for shifter druid and get closer to a bestial connection rather than an animal companion?

I don't have any of the Rulebooks for 3.5 anymore. I know the point buy works differently can anyone explain.

All stat start at 8
8-14 all 1 for one
14-16 all 2 for one
16-18 all 3 for one

if I correctly remember

To buy a 14 it will cost me 6 points
To buy a 15 it will cost me 8 points
To buy a 17 it will cost me 13 points

Galdamor is correct on the point buy

and a 18 will cost 16 points

Unfortunately you can not use that option as there are no shifter in greyhawk.

You can either the elemental companion variant from Complete Mage or the Shapeshift ability variant from the Phb2 (it replace Animal companion & wild shape)

Flo: FYI: the faith of Hextor is located primarily in the East of the world (the kingdom that used to be the great kingdom and that has divided in: Ahlissa, Nyrond,Aerdy) The population there is of Oeridian origin.

The pure suloise immigration stopped in the sheldomar vallee (west of the map) and formed the Great kingdom of Keoland (who then separated in smaller pieces over the time)

If you are ok this is what i am going to do:

you are of mixed suel-Oeridian origin, from the City of greyhawk. You participated in the last year of the Greyhawk war in 584 CY at the age of 16, as a regular drafted conscript for the City.

Your first major battle although it ended in victory didn't go well for you, you were left on the battlefield in a coma.

You can not remember if it was in a dream or not but a voice asked you if you wanted to live. And if you could live to serve.

You said yes.

You wake up under the care of the chaplain of the Mercenary band called Roka's Iron Fist lead by the Ordained champion of Hextor (L-N) Salan Roka.

You finished the war with them.

At the end of the war, you stayed for a couple of years in the City of GreyHawk in order to train in the ways of Hextor (small temple, mix of evil and neutral clergy)

The company left for to participate in the Great Northern Crusade aimed at reclaiming land from the Evil Empire of Iuz.

At the end of 586 CY after the flight of fiends. the Company ended its engagement in the crusade. And departed for Greyhawk to rest for the next two years.

During this time Roka's Iron Fist, replenished their losses and supervised the training of their new members. You "joined" during that time.

They left for Geoff beginning of 589 CY. As the Battle of Hochcoh Orchestrated by leaders of the Knights of Dispatch in 588 CY saw a great deal of fighting in the Oytwood, where a small army of lesser giantkin was defeated with great bloodshed. The push was taxing, however,

Hochcoh now under the Grand Duck's command could serve as a staging area to receive reinforcements and organize guerilla in the rest of the land for a push toward the capital city of Gorna.

it is Summer of 591 CY. the company is still in the Grand Duchy of Geoff, and you are on the road toward Drelin's ferry.

YOu know that in the lands of Sterich even though most of it has been reconquered, a men with talent both in the Mace and spell he can carve himself some land to rule for the Baron of Elsir Vale North West of Drelin's Ferry and might even rise up within the ranks.

Map of the flanaess

Any problem with a halfling barbarian/Druid?

Da way there aren't any problem with any race/class/multiclass/ authorized within the books a set forward.

you just have to accept the consequences.. :)

yup barbarian druid ok.