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This document is ment as a quick introduction to Living Enworld. To help all of the new players, this post gives you the basic information needed to play in Enworld, without reading through the 8 pages of the General Enworld Thread
Q: What is Enworld?
A: Enworld is a turly living campaign. Players will be able to create magic items, travel around the world, design new feats, research new spells, build their own shops, houses, and maybe even cities. DMs will get to create their own adventures, and run them.
Q: How is this different from a RPGA Living Campaign?
A: An RPGA Living campaign does not allow players to create items easily, players have a very hard time creating their own spells, and players cannot create feats. In a RPGA campaign, all of the groups play the same adventures, while in Living Enworld every adventure is unique. RPGA living campaign rarely allow the world to change as a result of one group of Players' actions, while the idea of having repercussions for every groups actions is central to living Enworld.
Q: How do I become a player?
A: Just post a character in the Living Enworld characters thread of the Rogues Gallery forum, report to the Red dragon inn in the Playing the Game Forum, and begin looking for adventuers and interacting with other players.
Q: What are the rules for character creation?
A: Player characters are created using a 30 point buy method, and only the races and classes presented in the 3.5 rulebooks. Even if you do not have the 3.5 rulebooks, the basic information is available for free, so everybody can play. At this point no other material is allowed, but as time passes other books will be added to the list available for use by player characters.
Starting gold is the maximum for each class.
Feel free to create new places and people as part of your backstory, players are encouraged to help build the world by adding details in their backstory.
Q: How do I become a DM?
A: Anybody who would like to run an adventure can run one. The first thing you need to do is submit as much information as possible on your adventure to one of the judges. Once the judge has given his approval, and as soon as you are ready to begin the adventure, you need to post your adventure to the Red dragon Inn, so that players can join. You can post the notice of a "job available" yourself as an NPC or your character, or you can ask a Judge to do it for you. Either way, as soon as a group of interested adventurers has gatherd, you create a new thread for your adventure and begin.
Q: If I DM can I still have a character?
A: Yes, anybody can have a character. the only restriction is that your character cannot participate in an adventure you run as anything other than an NPC.
Q: What is Enworld like?
A: To find out about notable places, people, and items within Enworld, visit the Almanac , a collection of all of the information we have so far created about Enworld. If you can think of something that needs to be added, or just have a great idea for a new NPC or place, feel free to post it, and it will be added to the forum. One of the best points about Enworld is that anybody can add to it.
Q: What deities are available?
A: The only available deities are listed in the Pantheon thread.
Q: Can I play a (insert name of monster here)?
A: At this point we are only allowing the races listed in the PHB and the varients of these races that do not have a ECL. So, for example, Deep Dwarves are allowed, since they have no ECL, but Drow are not, since they have an ECL.
Q: Can I play an evil character?
A: Sure, as long as it does not interefere with the smoothe running of the game.
Maybe it's usefull to use Level Adjustment instead of ECL, since the 3.5 MM uses Level Adjustment and Starting Hit Dice, but not ECL. Or have a list of available subspecies:
Humans, Half-Orcs, Half-Elves,
High Elves, Aquatic Elves, Gray Elves, Wild Elves, Wood Elves,
Hill Dwarves, Deep Dwarves, Mountain Dwarves,
Rock Gnomes, Forest Gnomes,
Lightfoot Halflings, Tallfellow Halflings, Deep Halflings.
Dunno about Gold Dwarves and Halfhuman Elves. They're in the DMG, but probably not in the SRD.
Q #1: In the rogues gallery, it says you can use anything in the SRD. Does this mean that psionics are available? Your post seems to imply that only 3.5 is allowed.
Q #2: If psionics are allowed, what is the starting gold for either of the two classes? I was looking around and couldn't find anything about it (dunno, maybe I missed it or didn't look in the correct spot).
Nope to the Psionics thing. By the way, when we move to a new forum (hopefully still, as Morrus hasn't said a word, but I think it's a strong possibility), this thread will be replaced by a real rules thread.
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Do you allow multiclassed first level characters with the apprentice level rules? I can't find them on the SDR (and dont even know if they're in the 3.5 DMG)
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Originally posted by creamsteak It's not in the 3.5 rulebooks if I recall correctly. I'd rather you just take the 2nd class at your next level...
Next question, has starting gold changed since 3.0, it doesn't seem to be in the SRD....
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Q: How are in-game use of 'Craft' skills going to be handled?
Example: A character with a total modifier of +10 for Craft(Bowmaking) decides to make a Masterwork Composite Longbow by taking 10 for all the Craft checks.
According to the craft rules this takes the character 10 weeks* of game time. How "long" is "10 weeks"?
*DC15 x Result of 20 for the craft check results in 30gp worth of work/week on the bow. DC20 x Result20 results in 40gp worth of work/week for the Masterwork component. 2.5 wks for the bow, 7.5 for the Masterwork.
Living Greyhawk uses a '52 weeks per year' system. Adventuring takes 1-20 weeks depending on how local and how big an adventure is, and so if crafting the item takes 10 weeks, then they have 42 weeks left to 'spend' for the rest of the year. We would start a new year every 4-6 months I think.
Hrm... what would be balancing. I'm going to think on this mechanic as I leave, I have an appointment, and then a class.
Or we could use the Elftime from Birthright, where time is different in all sorts of places. Crafting in a shop may 'seem to take 10 weeks', but the rest of the world has only moved 4 days, etc.
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Please keep the discussion in here about the FAQ itself, so that later posts can be removed. It makes sense to keep the general discussion down to one thread.
I am extremely sorry, I am still without internet access in my dorm and the computer lab is a pain to use and usualy very full, so I have not been able to update the FAQ or review characters since earlt sunday. My apologies for the inconvenience, I should have a connection in my room by the end of the day in which case I will immediately start catching up on what i've missed.
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When a person makes a character, can we just post it into the Rogue's Gallery and then wait approval, or do we have to send it to your email address for approval first, and then it will get posted into the RG?
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When a person makes a character, can we just post it into the Rogue's Gallery and then wait approval, or do we have to send it to your email address for approval first, and then it will get posted into the RG?
If it is a new character (i.e. you don't just edit a post to add the character) the forums will automaticaly alert me. At that point I'll review it, and it will probably be fine. The only time you need to email me is if you add your character to a previous post by editing.
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A: Just post a character in the Living Enworld characters thread of the Rogues Gallery forum, report to the Red dragon inn in the Playing the Game Forum, and begin looking for adventuers and interacting with other players.
It could be nice to edit the links on those so that they point to the appropriate threads in the new forums and no more to enworld.cyberstreet.com.
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