On the look out for brave adventurers...

[Amechra]

Wanted: Brave adventurers willing to risk their lives for glory and coin.

Willing volunteers please apply to the Guild of the Drunken Cartographer.

Yep, I'm doing another PbP alongside my version of FtU.

The 16
[spoiler]1. What game system are you running (D&D, Call of Cthulu, Palladium, GURPS, etc.), and if applicable what edition (Original, Classic, Revised, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 10th, etc.)? 3.5e
2. What 'type' or variant of game will it be (i.e. "Shadow Chasers" or "Agents of Psi" for d20 Modern)? What is the setting for the game (eg. historic period, published or homebrewed campaign setting, alternate reality, modern world, etc.)? Exploration of… odd places… See below.
3. How many Players are you looking for? Will you be taking alternates, and if so, how many? 4-5 players
4. What's the gaming medium (OOTS, chat, e-mail etc.)? These forums.
5. What is the characters' starting status (i.e. experience level)? Level 6, halfway to 7th level
6. How much gold or other starting funds will the characters begin with? 13000 gp
7. Are there any particular character classes, professions, orders, etc. that you want... or do not want? What are your rules on 'prestige' and/or homebrewed classes? Very limited homebrew, there's a list of surely allowed below, anything else is run by me, I'm pretty open to everything.
8. What races, subraces, species, etc. are allowed for your game? Will you allow homebrewed races or species? Those from the sources below.
9. By what method should Players generate their attributes/ability scores and Hit Points? 32 point buy.
10. Does your game use alignment? What are your restrictions, if so? Open for conversions of almost any class.
11. Do you allow multi-classing, or have any particular rules in regards to it? No penalties for multiclassing.
12. Will you be doing all of the die rolling during the course of the game? Will die rolls be altered, or left to the honor system? If players can make die rolls, which ones do they make, how should they make the rolls, and how should they report them? Some DM rolls (treasure, etc) are made secretly. Everything else is rolled using invisible castle
13. Are there any homebrewed or optional/variant rules that your Players should know about? If so, list and explain them, or provide relevant links to learn about these new rules. None, unless requested by the players.
14. Is a character background required? If so, how big? Are you looking for anything in particular (i.e. the backgrounds all ending up with the characters in the same city)? A short one would be desirable.
15. Does your game involve a lot of hack & slash, puzzle solving, roleplaying, or a combination of the above? Puzzlesolving and Exploration, with a healthy dash of Combat and Roleplaying
16. Are your Players restricted to particular rulebooks and supplements, or will you be allowing access to non-standard material? What sources can Players use for their characters? See below.
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Available Material
[spoiler]Core
Complete Series
Races of X
Book of ED/VD
Heroes of X
Tome of Magic/Battle
Dungeonscape
Anything else, as long as you ask me first.[/spoiler]

The basic idea behind this adventure is to see how many weird dungeons I can put you through. Expect to see stuff that makes no sense to our weak little fleshling brains.

One last thing; one player will be the Cartographer of the group. His/her job will be to make a map of all the places you guys go through.

Don't forget your towel!

[Flay Crimsonwind]

Y'know, I'm finally wrapping up my FtU stuff, and a few of my games are fried, I do believe (or on hiatus... like, three or four of them...). And since I was gonna design my namesake over again, I figure, why not introduce Flay into a game again? 6 is a perfect start for him.

Dungeons shouldn't be a problem for that hoopy Flay Crimsonwind. He's a sick frood who really knows where his towel is. (Bard 4 / Pally 2, with more bard/pally coming. Cha-lovin' TWFer)

Anyways, I'll be interested if you have any slots open; I know there were some folk interested in getting into a game. Consider me the first on the waitlist, if filling needs to be done. Note: You didn't say how much gold is to be expected. Is it by the usual WBL rules (in this case, 13,000)?

[Amechra]

Yep, WBL. I meant to put that in.

Would love to have you, Flay.

And I pretty much have one of the maps done; tesseracts FTW!

[ShadowViper]

I'm interested(bolded for ease of counting) as well

[ShadowViper]

By "core" does that include MMs 1 through 5 or just 1?

[Amechra]

Just 1.

Don't have 2-5. Yet.

[ShadowViper]

How about the Poison-Dusk Lizardfolk from MM3?

And the Dread Necromancer from Heros of Horror?

Those are two different character ideas I've had.

[Mixster]

I love weird dungeons! But running in 2 and Dm'ing one might be a little much.

Can you keep a spot for me?

[Praef]

If there's a spot open, I'd love to try my hand at it.

[Amechra]

Sure, I'd love to have you guys join.

In fact, I believe that I could possibly run it with 6-7 people, if needs be...

[Amechra]

ShadowViper, how could I have forgotten HoH? I love that book. I'll add it to the list of allowed books. That and HoB.

I just got my hands on MM 2-4, so now they are part of my definition of core. So yeah, play your Lizardfolk.

[PhaedrusXY]

I'm considering something like this. Got any tips?

I was thinking of replacing the 2nd Spell Mastery with Knowledge Devotion. I'd like Toothed Tentacle as a spell known, to apply Knowledge Devotion to for a decent basic attack routine (3 attacks with 30 foot reach, doing 2d6 each with a duration of Concentration is decent, I think).

In fact... would you have a problem with me applying Sneak Attack to those attacks? It doesn't technically say the wizard is making the attacks. It says the tentacles can be directed to attack, but it uses my caster level and Int mod for the attack rolls, and it requires a full-round action from the wizard. So he's basically attacking with them... I might go with an Unseen Seer build using that spell, if I can SA with it.

[Amechra]

Hmm... Replace the second Spell Mastery with Uncanny Foresight.
Plus, SA should apply, so go for it.

So... who wants to be Cartographer?

[PhaedrusXY]

Hmm... Replace the second Spell Mastery with Uncanny Foresight.
Plus, SA should apply, so go for it.

So... who wants to be Cartographer?

Yeah, was just about to ask if I could use Uncanny Forethought.

If you're allowing stuff from EoE, I might just take Fell Conspiracy, also (the text is in the link above), if you'd let that qualify me for Mindsight.

I don't mind being the Cartographer, either, as long as it doesn't actually require me to draw maps OOC or anything like that. 

[Amechra]

The Cartographer might need to make maps OOC, because I sure as hell ain't sharing my maps.

Besides, when your in a dungeon where you can snipe yourself in the back of the head by shooting in front of you, you might want a map.

That's just my freakiness talking, however.

[PhaedrusXY]

Urgh... ok... maybe I'll be the Cartographer... if someone else doesn't want the job.

Build stub:

Whisper Gnome Wiz5/Rogue 1 (Unseen Seer next)

racial traits
[spoiler]+2 Dex/Con, -2 Str/Cha
30 ft move
Small
+4 Hide/MS
+4 Dodge vs Giants
Low-light and Darkvision
+1 att kobolds and goblinoids
+2 listen/spot
Silence 1xday (Ghost Sound, Mage Hand, Message 1xday if Cha 10+)
Favored class: Rogue[/spoiler]

Feats: Improved Initiative (martial wizard), Spell Mastery (1), Uncanny Forethought (3), Versatile Spellcaster (6), (Arcane Manipulation and Practiced Spellcaster if flaws allowed)
ACFs: Spontaneous Divination, Martial Wizard (fighter feats)

I'll be the goddamned batman.  

Edit: Hmm... if I take rogue at 1st and we get flaws, I'm not sure I can cram all those feats in... Are you allowing flaws BTW? I think I might have to commit a huge sin and take Wizard at 1st... due to the feats all requiring casting ability...


Edit2: Actually considering going Feat Rogue (if it's allowed) and taking PBS with that and Precise Shot with my martial wizard feat (if that's allowed, also ). None of this stuff is really required for the build, though. It just makes it tastier.

Edit3: So I could break up three 3rd level spellslots into four 2nd level slots and one 1st level slot. Then I could use the 2nd level slots to cast any two 3rd level spells spontaneously via Versatile Spellcaster (or just cast 2nd level spells with them... which arguably are better than many/most 3rd level spells). Hmm... I'm not sure that's worth bothering with on top of Uncanny Forethought. It basically replaces this whole trick rather handily. The only cost is the increased casting time.

If I dump Versatile Spellcaster, I can ditch the last wizard level and go right for Unseen Seer (Rog1/Wiz4/US1). I can also take Rogue at 1st, move Spell Mastery to 3rd and Uncanny Forethought to 6th. I think I definitely like this better...


new feat progression: Knowledge Devotion?  (1), Improved Initiative (martial wizard, if allowed), Spell Mastery (3), Uncanny Forethought (6), (PBS and Precise Shot if flaws allowed?)
ACFs: Martial Wizard (fighter feats)
Skill Trick: Collector of Stories (especially if it works with Knowledge Devotion)
Maybe: Cloistered cleric with Trickery to get Hide, sub out for Knowledge Devotion at 1st. Can I get Search as a class skill somehow? Human as race for Able Learner would make skills easier...

That would give me 2d6 SA, which when added onto Toothed Tentacle is potentially 12d6 damage per round for several rounds, plus maybe the Knowledge Devotion bonus 3x (I think that can't be taken at 1st level, though...).

Any reason I can't flank with the Toothed Tentacle? It's a normal attack roll, not a ranged attack. So I don't see why i can't...

[Praef]

Great!

give me a day or so to come up with a character.  How do you feel about warforged? Or factotums?

[ShadowViper]

How about Expanded Psionics(non-psionic feats)?

[Mixster]

Well, let's see.

It's long time since I've played a druid. So I can do healing duty.

[Amechra]

Flaws are allowed.

You can flank with Toothed Tentacle.

And Praef,Warforged Factotums are welcome.

P.S. Forgot to put Tome of X and Dungeonscape on the allowed list.