Ancient Lands (4th edition, recruiting)

[Keith Valken Lionheart]

The world of Verdana is composed of 2 very, very large continents, one of them very technological, the other... well, the other is feared. You see, people go INTO the continent in search of riches, glory, etc and never come back, but they go there for a reason: The civilized continent is contantly in a state of war, and most able warriors flee the continent so they're not conscripted into the military.

There are rumours about the unnamed, unknown continent: some say terrible beasts lurk amidst it's lands, others say the land itself is a massive sleeping monster, others say that it kills warriors looking to shed blood on it's lands. Whatever the case, only the bravest and most curious sail forth, wanting to prove themselves and mayhaps find a less bloodied home.

So warriors, adventurers, scholars, archaeologists: the land is ready to be explored. Are you up to the challenge?  

[Keith Valken Lionheart]

Players:
1-joe-dude667, Dark-Pact Warlock
2-Rain Yupa, Halfling Ardent
3-Arc Vembris, Human Tempest Fighter
4-Manozz55, Halfling Rogue
5-Ziekara, Elven Ranger
6-SporkMaster5000, Avenger/Psion Hybrid

Starting level: 1

Books allowed: All 4th edition books. Whilst I don't have either the Essentials books nor the Dragon magazines, if you plan to use a race, weapon and/or feat from said books, PM me the info, so that I can know what it does.

Houserules:
1-Action Points are recharged on a short rest, subject to change.

2-Rogues get Proficiency with Rapiers

3- Everyone gets Versatile Expertise for free.

4- All arcane classes get the Wizard's Cantrips for free, if you so desire to have 'em. All Arcane and Divine classes also get the Ritual Casting feat for free, while martial characters get the Practiced Study feat for free. Arcane classes start with 3 rituals and a ritual book, and Martial classes start with 2 Martial Practices at level 1.

You can either roll 5d6 drop lowest 2 6 times, reroll 1s, OR standard point buy.

Any questions, don't be afraid to ask :3  

[joe-dude667]

Think I'm gonna bring out my Evil Aligned - Drow Warlock. Would that be allowed, or will you only take non evil alignments?

Everythings pretty much FRPG and PHB except for one dragon mag feat called "Killing Curse" that boosts d6 curse damage to d8s a la Backstabber for rogues/Lethal Hunter for Rangers. This feat should have been in PHB anyway IMHO.  

[joe-dude667]

Just for lolz.  

[Arc Vembris]

I'm so down for this, all my 4e DMs have been dropping like flies. I've got a couple ideas written down, I'll have to pore over them quick and get back to you on character ideas. One is a chainfighter using a feat from Dragon.

I assume if we're getting martial practices, we're also getting the Martial Practice-using feat rather than Ritual Casting or in addition to RC?  

[joe-dude667]

5, 5, 2, 2, 5 = 15
2, 6, 6, 6, 2 = 18
6, 6, 5, 2, 5 = 17
5, 4, 4, 1, 5, 4 = 14

So glad I rolled...

*Edit*

SO SO SO SO SO glad I rolled!!! >.<

6, 6, 1, 6, 4 = 18
5, 6, 6, 6, 6 = 18
Reroll = 5, I won't bother with the other reroll. =P

Scores are:
18, 18, 18, 17, 15, 14. =)  

[joe-dude667]

The Drow Warlock, Kazlien. History+tektek to come.  

[joe-dude667]

Arc Vembris

I'm so down for this, all my 4e DMs have been dropping like flies.

QFT. My life feels somewhat empty without The Coliseum. cry  

[Arc Vembris]

What exactly does "technological" look like in this context? Does it mean magically advanced? which would certainly account for the commonality of rituals and cantrips. Is it like magitech, or some kind of clockwork/steampunk scenario?  

[Rain Yupa]

Hey! HEY! I'm still undropped and quite unfly like, btw! mad

With Nayr's games effectively a bust, as is Tomb of Horrors, I might get in on this.

Probably going to face my irrational fear and play a psionic character. Not sure which, though.  

[Rain Yupa]

Rolling some dice. How I will do it, is I will ignore 1's as they come up. So if I get, say:

4, 5, 4, 5, 1, 2, 6, 1, 3, 3, 2, 6

My first roll is 45452, my second roll is 6,3,3,2,6. Et cetra, et cetra.  

[Rain Yupa]

1, 1, 5, 4, 4, 5, 6,| 4, 1, 5, 6, 2, 6,| 5, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2,| 6
2
1, 6, 6, 3,| 4, 4, 6, 5, 6,| 1, 4, 6, 4, 5, 4,| 1, 5, 3, 6, 4

Roll 1: 5, 4, 4, 5, 6 = 16
Roll 2: 4, 5, 6, 2, 6 = 17
Roll 3: 5, 2, 2, 3, 2 = 10
Roll 4: 6, 2, 6, 6, 3 = 18
Roll 5: 4, 4, 6, 5, 6 = 17
Roll 6: 4, 6, 4, 5, 4 = 15  

[Rain Yupa]

Dice roll fail. Keeping that 2, but let's roll more than 1 dice now.  

[Keith Valken Lionheart]

Joe-dude, you can definitely play the Drow, just not evil, for now. I'm new @ DMing, so I'll take a backseat when it comes to evil alignments. Sorry. You can still play it, if you'd like, just not evil. Also, can you PM me the description of the feat, real quick?

Arc, I read MP2's Martial Practices chapter repeatedly and looked @ the Heroic feats, and saw no feat for Martial Practices, plus a sidenote in the Feats area says how a Martial player should take Ritual Caster do to Out-Of-battle stuff, so I'm guessing Martial classes use Ritual Caster for Martial Practices, since they work the same anyways. Also, technology is... well, magitech and clock/steampunk, yes. Just unreliable, it's as if they entered a medieval technological revolution, and they're inventing stuff up their wazoo, just clumsily. About the only reliable stuff are those made by Dwarves and Gnomes.

Also, racial norms are out the window on many races. For one, evil races aren't quite evil in this setting, they're bumped up to Unaligned. So Duergar ain't evil, just a side effect of being down there for millenia, same with Drow.

Also, be warned: I plan to make battles challenging biggrin  

[Rain Yupa]

MP2: Practiced Study (Heroic), Practiced Prodigy (Heroic), and Rapid Practice (Paragon) are all feats involving Martial Practices (the first one enabling you to have them in the first place).