In and around Lenga, capital city of the nation of Gorland, postings have been put up, a general cry for interested adventurers to join a newly-formed adventuring company calling itself the Phoenix Talon Alliance. The ubiquity of the posters suggests that many adventurers will heed the call, and the quality of the posters, printed on expensive presses with colored ink, suggests that those adventurers would be working for an organization that has money to spend but is looking for more. Instructions are given to inquire at a certain address in Lenga.
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This is what you've all been waiting for, or at least what some of you have been waiting for and several have already been planning for, being I'm a scatterbrained idjit who does things in the wrong order, like putting up an OOC post after I already have a moderately large confirmed playerbase. *ahem* This is going to be something less than a campaign; small, self-contained chat RPs with a changing roster of characters drawn from whoever happens to be online when it's time to start (such things will probably be announced with ample time for interested parties to prepare). Characters will be a part of the aforementioned Phoenix Talon Alliance.
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Character creation stuff:
Characters start at ECL (or character level) 10.
Any race with a Level Adjustment given is acceptable.
Any class from a published source is acceptable, including Prestige Classes.
3e classes and variants are only acceptable if they were not converted directly to edition 3.5 (for instance, only the version of the Tempest class from Complete Adventurer is allowed).
Characters start with 49,000 GP to spend.
Starting experience is 46500/55000; this is 1500 more than the minimum for level 10, and anyone with the means to do so can spend their excess experience points on things like permanencies, contingencies, and magic item creation.
Rolling for stats: Roll 5d6 seven times. Drop the lowest two dice in each set of 5 and the lowest total roll when you're done. Take one full reroll if you need it, but you MUST take the second set of rolls if you take one. Apply 2 bonuses to stats as you see fit, for having gained levels 4 and 8; remember that an increase to Intelligence in this way does not retroactively award skill points.
I've fucked with the language system to make it harder to learn seven bajillion languages; the exact specifications depend on where your character grew up, and will be given in IM because they're complicated, but know that you'll need to spend a few skill points on Speak Language if your character is to know more than one or two; if your character isn't Gorlish and has an Intelligence of less than 14, you will definitely have to. AIM: DeusFio.
Multiple characters are acceptable as long as they don't gain an unfair advantage from one another and you make no attempt to play them at the same time.
No using the following classes: Warshaper, Ur-Priest, Frenzied Berserker. No arguments.
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This is a very basic, simple fantasy setting specifically created to have room for (nearly) every concept presented in the D&D books. There is very little to say about the setting as a whole.
Country information and the map are here:
http://mysidia.org/rpgww/Tales_Under_the_Ochre_Banner
UPDATE: Now there's religion on that page, too!
Regardless of your origins (which should be known for purposes of background and so your languages can be worked out), you are currently in the nation of Gorland, a free republic with a large mix of races and people who are, for the most part, tolerant of others. The Gorlish government's attitudes toward adventurers are mixed; the easiest way to stay on the government's good side is to register an adventuring company, the process for which becomes more complicated as a group gets larger (the fact that someone has already gone to the trouble may be enough impetus for many adventurers to join up with the Phoenix Talon).
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I have more D&D sourcebooks on PDF than you can shake a stick at. IM me if you want one or more sent.
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Any questions or comments can be left here or transmitted over IM (AIM: DeusFio)