Leif's AD&D 1E Game [OOC 01]

Kiraya_TiDrekan: sorry to see you go. For what its worth, we're not quite ready to start yet, well except for Helfdan, who has been started for some time now.

Deuce Traveler: Happy to have you aboard! Play a magic-user or fighter or whatever tickles your fancy. If someone else has that class already, we'll work around it somehow. I find it hard to imagine two characters (even ones of the same class) being so much alike that they could not peacefully co-exist in the same party.

Scott DeWar: I was just rhetorically stating rules, not telling you to refrain from playing a ranger. Let's get [MENTION=11732]Helfdan[/MENTION] to weigh in on this issue: how would your character feel about sharing combat duties with another ranger?

[MENTION=92511]steeldragons[/MENTION]: Do you still decline to join this game, or can you be persuaded, either now or in the future?

Well, I can always be persuaded. hahaha. I'm a willow. I can bend.

It's more the uncertainty of if I can reliably contribute (i.e. be around when the game/my fellow adventurer's need me), than anything specific to stop me.

But for now, and with the holidays barreling down upon us, I think it's prudent to remain an interested spectator and decline. Appreciate the continuing invite though.

Leif, we are using the same RG as the old game, Right?

steeldragons: Very well, you must do as you find to be prudent, and I will not interfere with the process. Know, however, that you are missed, and that virtually any contribution would be welcome no matter how small or sparse.

Scott DeWar: Yes, for now at least, same IC, OOC, and RG.

Links:
IC
OOC [This thread!]
RG

Leif, last question. Are your adventures more urban or dungeon centric? Can you tell me a bit of your setting? I am now thinking illusionist if there is a lot going on in the city, but I have to see if my stats meet the minimum requirements when I get home. Also still looking at magic-user, but all the differing ideas on how to play him or her are clashing in my head.

Oh, and when are you doing GURPS or Traveller again?

AD&D and GURPS Traveller

Deuce Traveler said:

Leif, last question. Are your adventures more urban or dungeon centric? Can you tell me a bit of your setting? I am now thinking illusionist if there is a lot going on in the city, but I have to see if my stats meet the minimum requirements when I get home. Also still looking at magic-user, but all the differing ideas on how to play him or her are clashing in my head.

Oh, and when are you doing GURPS or Traveller again?

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So far, it's been almost all dungeon-centric, except for this last little bit in the inn. For the future, I could go either way, depending upon the expressed preferences of my players. Setting? Well, it's a modified Greyhawk, but all of the action so far has taken place in the PCs home area in an unspecified forest. (Or maybe it was specified, [MENTION=11732]Helfdan[/MENTION], do you recall?) Illusionist would be highly cool, if your stats measure up.

The only GURPS I have ever done has been GURPS Traveller. I like it better than the old (or, for that matter, the new) GDW Traveller, because it has rules for character advencement/impovement, which was/is the most glaring flaw of GDW Traveller. I've not had much luck stirring up interest in a GURPS Traveller game -- pretty much just [MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION] and now you, but I could probably be convinced to take another run at it. My idea last time was to put the PCs on a pretty K-A, armed, exploration ship, and put them in the employ of an intelligence service, flying around and trouble-shooting one jump ahead of the enemy, trying to keep their bacon out of the shooting-type war. At least, that was my intention, but I'm not really sure I was able to communicate that plan clearly. It never seemed to work out, anyway, and player attrition was EXTREMELY high.

[Because, see, I get really into the whole 'space-travel' thing, in a sorta "2001: A Space Odyssey" kind of way, not just: 'we get on the ship, floor it, and ka-boom, we're at this other planet.' Good grief, am I gonna have to find and dig out all of those GURPS Traveller books again? ]

I also sometimes go through my Traveller books for kicks. I have the original black books, Traveller: the New Era, and GURPs versions.

I didn't have the stats to pull off a gnome illusionist. I'm still considering my final concept, but here is my character thus far:

Human
Magic-User
Level: 1

Str: 13
Int: 14
Wis: 14
Dex: 13
Con: 9
Cha: 11

Death, Paralysis, Poison: 14
Petrification, Polymorph: 13
Dragon Breath: 15
Rod/Staff/Wand: 11 (10)
Spells: 12 (11)

Weapons: ?

Equipment: ?

Spellbook: Read Magic, Sleep

Treasure: 50gp http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4728759/

Welcome aboard!

Since we are starting at level 4, I will raise my character to the appropriate level and minimum required XP. Do I start with just 50gp and normal equipment, or do I receive additional toys to prop up my character?

Take any mundane equipment desired, but no magic has been given to any PC to start, I think.