Attempt #231 at a D&D based game..

[Carthrat]

3rd, take your pick. The setting is fantasy Japania (read: Japanesque), but 'immigrants' are possible, and I'll change the setting if public vote wants it that way.

3 players, I'll base the campaign off your backgrounds. Do yourselves and me a favour and write backgrounds which compliment each other, not to mention complimentary skills and whatnot. You have 83 points to spend on shit, and you are 4th level characters. And yes, that bonus point is included in the points I just gave you.

You probably want Oriental Adventures for ideas, though it's not vital that you have it; most of the background stuff I'm waiving.

Races: Lots of stuff, run it past me. If you want to be a Youkai or some other creature from Japanese mythology, it's up to you to design a template and send it to me for approval.

Classes: Again, lots of stuff, but try and be, well, Asian about it. Approve non Players-Handbook or Oriental Adventures stuff through me first.

Extracurricular Material Must Be Shown To Me Or Stabbings Will Be Done.

I WILL NOT PUT UP WITH BULLSHIT.

You will post *daily*. If you cannot post *daily* do not *join*. Bi-daily is not good enough; the norm must be every day, more if necessary. I will post daily. You will post daily. If you have not posted daily, I'll give you one more day, and I'll want an excuse.

Look, I won't mind the occasional lapse. The people who are going to apply for this most likely know me pretty well, anyway. But I am now a steadfast believer in game momentum making or breaking a game; I will sacrifice players for momentum.

It's a forum-run game, if you didn't guess from the above. Stats will basically apply only during really important situations, and I will be rolling all the dice behind the scenes.

Oh yeah, if I can, I'll run combat in IRC, but that's iffy, and I'm sure I don't need to say why.

So yeah. Any takers? Don't bother designing a character yet, I'd rather you designed your character together than seperate and then me crunching them together. >_>

[Carthrat]

And here's a bleated reminder to tell you that we're playing 3.0 as opposed to 3.5.

[Olvelsper]

Heh. Good luck, Rat! ^^

[Carthrat]

Ok, boys and girls, I've got my three players. Tentatively, anyway. I'm pretty sure I've told you all not to worry overmuch about character sheets and technical stuff, 'cos I'll only be using them behind the scenes.

I will now proceed to make things more complex for you, thus ruining my image as a kind GM.

Anyway! Some stuff about feats. I've decided to make some alterations, 'cos I like 3.5 feats but can't be bothered using the rest of it.

Skill Focus now gives a +3 bonus instead of a +2 bonus.

There are a bunch of feats that give +2 to two different related skills. I'm oversimplifying it and if you want to get +2 to any two different skills for one feat, you can. Proviso; you can't take this feat twice for the same skill in any form.

i.e. I take feat X, which gives me +2 to Hide and Jump rolls. Geddit?

Two-Weapon Fighting has been changed, apparently, so that Ambidexterity is no longer required to be at optimum two-weapon performance. Life be good.

There are a few other feats I'm gonna let you use if you want, I'll list them here.

Manyshot: (Lets you shoot lots of arrows with one pull of the bowstring.) Requires Dex 17, Point Blank Shot, Rapid Shot, Base Attack Bonus +6.

You can fire extra arrows based on your Base Attack Bonus at an opponent within 30 feet as a standard action. For every 5 points of Base Attack Bonus over +6 you have, you can fire another shot. There is a -4 penalty to all arrows, which decreased by another -2 for every arrow over 2 you fire.

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Improved Precise Shot: Requirements: Dex 19, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, BaB +11:  Your ranged attacks completely ignore the AC bonus given by anything less the complete cover or concealment. When you shoot at a grappling opponent, you always hit the enemy as opposed to your ally.

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Improved Shield Bash: When you perform a shield bash, you maintain the bonus it grants to AC.

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Greater Two-Weapon Fighting: Requirements: Dex 19, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, Two-Weapon Fighting, BaB of +11.

You can make a third attack with your off-hand weapon, albeit at a -10 penalty.

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Greater Weapon Focus: Requirements: Weapon Focus in selected weapon, Fighter level 8th: You get another +1 to attack with this weapon, which stacks with Weapon Focus.

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Greater Weapon Specialisation: Requirements: Weapon Specialisation in selected weapon, Fighter Level 12th: You get another +2 to damage with this weapon, which stacks with Weapon Focus.

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You probably don't need to worry much about the technical stuff, the title of each feat is fairly self-explanatory. This is mostly fighter junk, anyway.