Avatars round 2!

[Anastasia]

You have died as has your world. Be you an epic hero or a normal person, your homeland fell to the Dark One. From the haze of pain in your demise comes your afterlife. There is no sunny fields or heavenly choirs beckoning you to rest. Oh no, rest is the farthest thing away from you.

HE is here. HIS laugh echos in this place, a starry emptiness, as if your soul has been enslaved to the night sky itself. Amid the specks you can perhaps see a few other brighter spots of white. Are others here with you? No time is granted to pursue this quandry, as instead HE deigns to address you.

"Pathetic creatures! Welcome to Eisenschloss. Your task is simple. I will grant you bodies to challenge what is ahead. Amuse me with your feeble attemps - for if you can reach my Throne, I shall grant you freedom and a wish. You shall even has as many bodies as you need for this. You'll need them!"

It's baaaaack!

If you've read through the above, I sincerely apologize. With that out of the way, let's get to business. This is going to be a post based game. I intend for this to be a reasonably mid paced game, something we can work on but without intruding on other obligations. You don't need to be fully time synched with me, but I'd like a period where we're both around and able to post. My times are from about 10 AM EST to 4 PM EST and most evenings from about 10 PM EST to 2 AM EST, roughly. Synching with the other players is a good idea as well.

Now to the meat of the game. This game will use 3.5 edition D and D, as I'm familiar with it and it has a good range of supplements to use. Each player will choose someone to play - be it themselves or a fictional figure or a generated character for this or from another game. Whatever does it for you. This is for background grist to work with.  Ahead of you is a vast dungeon - difficult and mysterious, harsh and brutal. The legendary Eisenschloss, the abode of the Dark One himself. The tyrant that crushed your home world underfoot, bringing everything to ruin. However, as spirits, you are unable to enter the dungeon as is or do anything. Instead you are granted the power to make avatars of yourself - from a selection of races and with a point pool to give yourself stats. In this form you will be able to attempt the dungeon. Certain death and return to the starry void likely awaits but each effort is not in vain. While the dungeon resets after each attempt, clearing areas and finding treasures unlocks them in avatar generation. Thus you learn the tricks and secrets of the dungeon while trying different character types to find success.

The reward of the game is getting to build progressively twinkier and twinkier character setups. While your selection will start most limited, you'll unlock higher starting stats, more classes and PrCs, extra races, extra splat books and so on as you reach deeper in. The goal is to reach the Dark One's throne. There he promises you a wish...and perhaps, just perhaps, you will be able to break his sick game or find one you love, or simply reach your promised rest.

For character generation(Not avatar, your actual spirit PC), you'll generally want to have some propelling reason or force to keep fighting to reach the Dark One. A loved one to see again? A chance to save your world? The hope you can strike down the Dark One in his arrogance? Whatever floats your boat. Statwise you don't need to assign anything to this. Your spirit forms will lack any powers you had in life. (So please don't pick something gamey like a spirit fighter or something implicitly chosen to try and circumvent this.) You can choose pretty much whomever you want beyond this. Just include a bio of how it went down in that character's world with the Dark One.

The exact meat of the rules will come a little later, as I'm converting the idea from 2nd edition to 3.5. These things take time.

[Ebiris]

Sign me up.

[Corwin]

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[Anastasia]

Character generation for avatars. Read this, you'll probably be making a lot of these:

Hit points: Max at level 1, 50% every level after.

Stats: Standard point buy as per page 170 of the DMG. You have 15 points, as per the low powered campaign variant.

Races: SRD only.

Classes: SRD only. No psionics.

Character level: 3.

Skills: If you wish, at level 1 you can choose a number of skills equal to your classes base skill points+int mod+any other skill point mod and have those be locked in. These are automatically at the maximum for your level regardless of anything else.  This allows speedier skills in exchange for a lack of flexibility. You can do them the old fashioned way if you want.

Gear: There is no starting GP. You may select any masterwork weapon from the SRD and any non masterwork armor besides full plate. As you explore the dungeon and find new items and magical items, these will become available to select on character generation. As of now you have no access to magical items or anything not listed below:

Any SRD masterwork weapon.

Any SRD non masterwork shield or armor.

Backpack
Bedroll
Winter blanket
Chalk
Empty Flask
Flint & Steel
Mirror
10 foot pole
Iron pot
Rations
50ft Hemp Rope
Soap
Torch
Waterskin
Whetstone

Spells:

Spell access will be controlled. You may select from the below list; all first and second level SRD spells will start available with any noted exceptions below on a banned/altered list. This applies to all casters. I will be nerfing some money spells.

BANNED/ALTERED SPELLS:

Wizard/Sorc:

Glitterdust: BANNED
Invisibility: Now a third level spell. Note that it is not available now currently, as you do not have any third level spells available. Plus you're only level 3 anyway.
Rope Trick: BANNED.

Cleric/Favored Soul:

Aid: Now a 1st level spell since Aid fucking blows.

Druid:

Barkskin: Duration decreased from 10 minutes/level to 1 minute/level, AC bonus lowered to 2 plus 1 for every 6 levels (max +5 at 18th level)

Bard:

Glitterdust: BANNED.

First level spells available:

All classes:

All SRD spells.

Second level:

Wizard/Sorcerer:

All SRD spells.

Cleric/Favored Soul:

All SRD spells.

Druid:

All SRD spells.

[Carthrat]

I'll play if it's forum based. Which it seems to be.

[Anastasia]

Laggy wanted me to post his interest since he's having technical problems. That's four, any others?

[Dracos]

I expect dere be a slot for me. :)

[Anastasia]

That's 5, nice turnout. That's about as much as I can handle, so I'm closing recruitment. I'll want to talk to people in the next day or two about various things and then start organizing matters.