The Campaign Builder's Guild

Alright, i started this campaign back over the summer but due mostly to the hectic-ness of first term it died out. I was thinking of reviving it as it was back in november but still had exams and stuff. Also i think i would prefer to start totally afresh. It would be the same campaign that i planned, but since the pc's never got very far in, there should be very little repettition.

So for now, nothing defenite, but i would like to start up the Shadow's Rising campaign at some point in the hopefully not too far off future.

Who would be interested?
 [ic]So far we have:
Kevkas Dragonsbane, a human undead-hunting cleric (played by Voran)
Ankh, an experimental warforged trained as a wizard (played by Golem)
Almax Duneith, a changeling rogue and master manipulator (played by Poseidon)
Dain Ironhammer, a dwarven fighter of some repute (played by Gwaihir)
and....
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 [ic=Info]
- It would take place in my Shadow's of the Last Alliance CS and would begin in the kingdom of Eltabar.
- Characters could be of pretty much any of the listed common races and classes (there are guidelines of common classes of each of the races, but these are, as said, just guidelines).
- Characters can come from pretty much any walk of life, but backgrounds should be run past me first.
- Level 2, 4d6 drop lowest, 900 gold.
- Any out of the ordinary classes or races, just aask me about them
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I'm interested, but I don't know if I'll have the time.  School is being a pain right now, but If I can put together a character, I'll join.

Well, if you can find time to fit it in, I'd be glad to have you along.

I was part of the original, so if you want to start it up again I will play.

sounds interesting...ill probably be able to fit some tim ein to play, if thats all right.

I was going to be part of the original... if you don't mind somebody DMing another campaign at the same time (not much extra work beyond the actual DMing, so don't worry) I'll join too.

Woo. Well 4 should be enough. glad to have you all aboard.

If anyone else is interested, i was aiming for 4-6 players, so i could deal with a couple more.

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Player name: Voran Illezou
Character Name: Kevkas Dragonsbane
Class: Cleric | Level: 2
Race: Human | Gender: Male
Religion/Deity: Senya, The Daystar

STR: 14 | {2 pts}
DEX: 10 | {0 pts}
CON: 12 | {1 pts}
INT: 15 | {2 pts}
WIS: 18 | {4 pts}
CHA: 17 | {3 pts}

HP Total: 15
AC Bonus: 17 | Touch AC: 10 | Flat-footed AC: 17
Initiative Bonus: 0
Base Attack: +1 | Grapple: 3

Saving Throws:
Fortitude Total:4  (Base: 3 + Ability Mod: 1 + Other: 0)
Reflex Total:0  (Base: 0 + Ability Mod: 0 + Other: 0 )
Will Total:7  (Base: 3 + Ability Mod: 4 + Other: 0 )

Weapons
(Masterwork Heavy Mace) - Attack:+1 |Damage:1d8+1 |Crit:x2
(***Weapon Name***) - Attack:+*** |Damage:***** |Crit:***
(***Weapon Name***) - Attack:+*** |Damage:***** |Crit:***
(***Weapon Name***) - Attack:+*** |Damage:***** |Crit:***

Armor
(Masterwork Breastplate) - AC Bonus:+5 |AC Penalty:-3 |Weight:30 lbs.
(Heavy Steel Shield) - AC Bonus:+2 |AC Penalty:-2 |Weight:15 lbs.
(***Armor Name***) - AC Bonus:+*** |AC Penalty:***** |Weight:***
(***Armor Name***) - AC Bonus:+*** |AC Penalty:***** |Weight:***

Skills
(Concentration) - Total:6 |Ranks:5 |Mods:(+1 [Ability])
(Diplomacy) - Total:8 |Ranks:5 |Mods:(+3 [Ability])
(Knowledge [Religion]) - Total:7 |Ranks:5 |Mods:(+2 [Ability])
(Spellcraft) - Total:7 |Ranks:5 |Mods:(+2 [Ability])
(***Skill Name***) - Total:+*** |Ranks:**** |Mods:(List all****)

Feats and Racial Abilities
(Extra Turning) - (+4 times/day to Turn/Rebuke Undead)
(Toughness) - (+3 Health)
(***Feat/Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Feat/Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Feat/Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Feat/Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Feat/Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)

Class Abilities
(Domain) - (Sun, Fire [These two seem like they would go hand-in-hand])
(Turn/Rebuke Undead) - (Turn Undead)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)

Spells
Level: 0 |Name: Detect Magic
 -----  Brief Description: (Detects magic within 60 feet.)

Level: 0 |Name: Detect Magic
 -----  Brief Description: (Gee, I wonder what this does? *looks at name of spell*)

Level: 0 |Name: Light
 -----  Brief Description: (Makes object shiney)

Level: 0 |Name: Guidance
 -----  Brief Description: (+1 on next attack roll [can be used on others])

Level: 1 |Name: Cure Light Wounds
 -----  Brief Description: (****************************************)

Level: 1 |Name: Inflict Light Wounds
 -----  Brief Description:
   (1d8+1 Damage to target [Touch attack])

Level: 1 |Name: Shield of Faith
 -----  Brief Description:                
   (+2 Deflection Bonus for 4 minutes)

Level: 1 (Domain) |Name: Burning Hands
 -----  Brief Description:                (1d4+1 Damage to all within a 15-foot cone.)


Equipment
 -Bedroll
 -Torch (x3)
 -Flint and Timber
 -Caltrops
 -25 ft. of rope
 -Trail Rations
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********

Treasure
Coins: 216 gp | 0 sp | 0 cp | 0 pp [This is a rough estimate]
Magical Items:
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********

Well,thats my character for now, I will run my background story by Cpt. Obvious soon and hopefully have that up as well.

So, for all those who've replied, go ahead and start making characters. If you have any questions about how certain races/classes/cultures/dieties/whatever else work and it's not already explained on the thread, just post it here or pm me your queries. I hope to get lots of updates done over the next short while, and having specific things to explian might help motivatew and focus me.

If anyone else is interested, i'd be glad to have you along.
As for a timeline, i am thinking that a week or two from now will likely be a starting time.

More about warforged, please. :D

Are changelings allowed :)

I've always wanted to play a changeling rogue

Player name: Golem011
Character Name: Ankh
Class: Wizard | Lavel: 2
Race: Warforged | Gender: Indiscriminate Alignment: Neutral

STR: 10 | {0 pts}
DEX: 12 | {1 pts}
CON: 16 | {3 pts}
INT: 16 | {3 pts}
WIS: 12 | {1 pts}
CHA: 8 | {-1 pts}

HP Total: 13hp
AC Bonus: 11 | Touch AC: 11 | Flat-footed AC: 10
Initiative: +1
Base Attack: +0 | Grapple: +0

Saving Throws:
Fortitude Total:+3  (Base: +0 + Ability Mod: +3 + Other: *** )
Reflex Total:+1  (Base: +0 + Ability Mod: +1 + Other: *** )
Will Total:+4  (Base: +3 + Ability Mod: +1 + Other: *** )

Weapons
Quarterstaff - Attack:+0 |Damage:1D6|Crit: x2
Slam Attack - Attack:+0 |Damage:1D4 |Crit: x2
(***Weapon Name***) - Attack:+*** |Damage:***** |Crit:***
(***Weapon Name***) - Attack:+*** |Damage:***** |Crit:***

Armor
Warforged Plating - AC Bonus:+2 |AC Penalty: +0 |Weight: -
(***Armor Name***) - AC Bonus:+*** |AC Penalty:***** |Weight:***
(***Armor Name***) - AC Bonus:+*** |AC Penalty:***** |Weight:***
(***Armor Name***) - AC Bonus:+*** |AC Penalty:***** |Weight:***

Skills
Knowledge (Arcana) - Total:+7 |Ranks: 4 |Mods: +3
Concentration - Total:+7 |Ranks: 4 |Mods: +3
Spellcraft - Total:+7 |Ranks: 4 |Mods: +3
Decipher Script - Total:+7 |Ranks: 4 |Mods: +3
Speak Language - Total:2 |Ranks:**** |Mods:(List all****)
(***Skill Name***) - Total:+*** |Ranks:**** |Mods:(List all****)

Feats and Racial Abilities
Light Fortification - 25% that sneak/crit fails
Warforged Traits - Automatically stabilises, no need to eat, sleep, or breathe
Vulnerabilities - Rust monster touch, heat/chill metal, rusting grasp, 2D6 (reflex half)
Repulsion - Repelled by Repel Wood, Repel Metal or Stone
Healing - Healing subschool 1/2 normal effect, cannot heal damage naturally.
Immunities - Poison, sleep effects, paralysis, disease, nausea, fatigue, exhaustion, sickening, energy drain.
Scribe Scroll - Create scrolls
Improved Counterspell - Can use spells at least one level higher to counterspell.

Class Abilities
Summon Familiar - Summon Cat familiar (+3 bonus on move silently checks)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)
(***Ability Name***) - (***List Brief Description***)

Spells

Level 0: 4/day.
Level 1: 2/day.

Level 0 - All spells known.

Level: 1 |Name: Magic Missile
 -----  Brief Description: 1 1D4 damage missile which strikes a target unerringly.

Level: 1 |Name: Animate Rope
 -----  Brief Description: Makes a rope move at your command.

Level: 1 |Name: Shield
 -----  Brief Description: Invisible disc gives +4 to AC and blocks MM.

Level: 1 |Name: Sleep
 -----  Brief Description: Puts 4HD of creatures into a deep slumber.

Level: 1 |Name: Mount
 -----  Brief Description: Summons riding horse for 2 hours/level.

Level: *** |Name: ************************
 -----  Brief Description: (****************************************)

Equipment
 -Spellbook
 -Component Pouch
 -Ink
 -Pen
 -Chest with average lock
 -1 Rope, silk (one of which is used to carry the chest)
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********
 -***********

Treasure
Coins: 102 gp | 8 sp | 8 cp | *** pp
Magical Items:
 -Scroll of Confusion x2
 -Scroll of Comprehend Languages
 -Feather Token, Bird
 -Potion of Cure Light Wounds x2
 -Scroll of Floating Disk
 -Scroll of Magic Missile x3
 -Scroll of Burning Hands x2
 -Scroll of Enlarge Person x2
 -Scroll of Reduce Person x2
 -Scroll of Disguise Self
 -***********

Character Background and Description
Ankh was an experiment of a kind unseen before - a forgeborn melded into the Aeia Web. The experiment succeeded, and Ankh - a forgeborn with intense personality - was created. The savants let him on loan to the wizards' colleges (after much negotiation), but he was found to be near-incapable of focusing on any one subject. Eventually, the savants let him out on his own - to see what would occur next in his anomalous behaviour.

@Golem: Info about Warforged and some thoughts for you backstory.
Warforged in their first incarnation were simply an attempt to create cheap mass produceable golem to be used af shock troops. Created by the gnomes and men of the Brotherhood of Savants in the early years of King Dareon's rule they were commisioned in case of future infernal inccursion as soldiers less vulnerable to fear and temptation. The earlier ones were hard to create and much larger (Chargers), but the current Forgeborn and the Scouts have been much more successful and there are now full legions of them. They must all spend a certain amount of time working offf their debt to their creators in the armed forces of some other task, but there are now many living out among the people of Eltabar.

A thought for your character. There are already many warforged that can cast arcane spells, but a thought i had is that your guy could be one of a new prototype. He will be one of the first warforged to have been successfully been artificially connected to the Aeia web. Wether this is by using an artificial Aeia or by somehow binding an unnassigned Aeia to it or perhaps by augmenting/awakening the Aeia of it's materials to the state of that of a living being is undecided. This research is dome mostly by gnomes and small groups of humans who are considered radicals by their peers, but it is bringing hope to some that if this can work for Forgeborn, then perhaps the same principles can be applied to humans as well.

There are currenty 3 new elements in warforged developement being studied, aside form simply improving the existing template. There is the Aeia project (called the "Rebirth Project" or the "Project Pheonix"), as well as creating warforged Infitrators that will have artificial skin and can have false identities imprinted into them (even so far as them not being aware that they are constructs), and finally studies are being made into both warforged grafts and prosthetics for humans and even the possibilities of full half-machine cyborg types.

As for your class choice, wizards in Eltabar were trained at the Colleges of Magic and are either specialists or Warmages. There are generalist wizards, but they are rare (the most common group for generalist wizards is among the dwarves).

@Poseidon:
I don't really have much of anything much thought out for changelings. to be honest it took me a little while to even think of what book they were in. However, their nature is such that there can be some in the cracks of another society. Basically they would tend to take on many of the cultural elements of wherever they live. If you decide you want to use the racial rogue substitution levels, i have no problem with that. Go for it. If you want help working out a background or need info on some culture, just let me know.

Aaaaaaand just realised that up near the top when i was saying we had 4 proplr, it should have said 3. Not sure where i got the extra. Mybe i counted golem twice, or counted myself. Anyone else want to join? any two people evne? (do i dare hope?)