Interest Assessment: Tome of Battle in Eberron

[Jon]

I like Tome of Battle. I like Eberron. Let's mix these two great tastes. Looking for four or five players.

We're going to be using the gestalt class rules. Make a level-6 gestalt character (Use the elite array on DMG 169 for the level-1 ability scores). One "half" of the gestalt must be a Tome of Battle class. The other should be a core (PHB or Eberron's Artificer) class, but I would be willing to consider expansion classes. This is higher-powered than a conventional level-6 character, but rest assured, your opponents will be tougher to compensate.

While your character may possess a dragonmark, he or she should not owe allegiance to any of the dragonmark houses. (This almost certainly means a less-powered mark, if any.)

Your characters will be a team of Acquisition Specialists for an up-and-coming prince of the Lhazar islands. As such, you already know each other and work well together. You earn a salary and reasonable travel expenses are covered by your employer. (Obviously, this also means you don't get to keep all the loot you find.)

Game locations to range from Sharn to Sarlona, from the Mournland to the Mror Holds, and beyond.

Game to occur on IRC, sessions to last approximately three hours, once per week. I work late on weekdays, so we couldn't start before 9. Sunday would work, and that could start earlier. (Friday and Saturday's out, I'm afraid.). Actual day to be determined by popular acclaim.

[Dracos]

9-12 is kinda later than I like to run during the work week and kinda short.

Thursday if I can make it.  But I'm just musing at the moment.  Hopefully other players will arise.

[yukatado]

Hmm . . . it looks like I'll have to look over ToB to see what I like, but I'm thinking I might play a Cleric/XYZ. Any alignment restrictions, such as "No Evil" or "No Neutral"?

Other than that, it sounds quite interesting.

[Jon]

I think it unlikely you could present an Evil-aligned character I'd accept.

Alignment guidelines: Don't look like you're trying to screw over the party. Don't look like a munchkin.

[Merc]

Interested, but unlikely I'd be able to play, unfortunately. 9pm = 11pm for me, 3 hour game means 2am endtime, that's just unlikely for me outside of friday/saturday (and you can't do those two). Earlier sunday would normally work...except I currently run an IH game from 4:30-8:30pm pst every other sunday.

So sad. Gestalt+ToB would have been fun, but the only day that works for me from your options is sunday, which only works if done by 4:30 or alternates schedule with my current game. >_<

Oh well, all I can say is good luck getting players. I'm gonna tinker with a character just for the fun of it though. >_>

[Dracos]

I have wanted to play gestalt for some time.  This is true.  I've yet to play ToB.  This is also true.  I have yet to play Eberreon.  This makes this technically a gestalt of new yet familiar experiences.

Possibly warforged ones.

Sunday I have Merc's game.

Alternating with merc's game and possibly being a few more hours would be close to awesomeness though.  Something like super awesomeness.

Either way, still nosing about.

[Jon]

I'm willing to alternate Sundays and do a longer session, I guess.

Also: Errata. Get it. Read it. (Tome of Battle errata is useless, though.)

[Navilee]

Ebberon and gestalt?  This sounds like either a hilarious train wreck or sheer awesome; either way I would be interested in being involnved.  Shall look into ToB, remember the intricacies of gestalt, and hopefully have a sheet up before too much longer.

And, because I will be asking and some measure of twink is to be expected of gestalting: buy off LA from races?

And second the Drac's comments on time and length.

[Jon]

And, because I will be asking and some measure of twink is to be expected of gestalting: buy off LA from races?

Only PHB and Eberron standard races, so no LA to worry about. Very convincing arguments for exceptions will be considered.

[Navilee]

Only PHB and Eberron standard races, so no LA to worry about. Very convincing arguments for exceptions will be considered.

Alrighty.  Last gestalt game I was in had every PC with LA 4+ races and scarily-optimized characters.

Any step away from that is good (although I will miss flying naturally.  Le sigh).

[Navilee]

Delayed question:

Starting GP as per DMG?

[Dracos]

A ping up, care to chatter a bit about your style of running Jon?  I've not read over a game run by you before.  Do you tend toward gritty?  Do you hand wave things?  Do you tend toward disconnected 1/2 shot things or long arcs?  Do you worry about food/bribery/scouting?  How hardcore with regards to death, healing, and rest do you tend to run?  Do you tend more toward tactical or powerhouse enemies?  What's your thoughts toward consumable items as part of spending?  Do you tend toward one enemy or many enemy encounters?  Are traps a regular part of your experience (I know for a lot of DMs they're either not, or they're puzzles which nerf trap solving abilities)

Figured I might as well ask :)  It's good to know pre-char build a lot of these things and which details tend to be important or irrelevent :)  Dune gave a great one recently with an entire party that generally 'handwaved' food and a DM that did not :)  Basically, good to start on shared expectations.

[Dracos]

also of course, any favored house rules, do you tend to use them, or do you tend just core? :)

[Jon]

Starting GP as per DMG?

Yeah, starting gold as per DMG. Don't spend it all in one place. (No, seriously, I mean it.) (There are some useful magic items in the Sharn book, incidentally.)

[Dracos]

Looking toward Rogue/SwordSage.  Flanking buddy/Tank desired. :)