OoC:The Sceptre of Kings:A Heroic Dwarven Quest

Yep, I'm starting ANOTHER game. I must be sick.
I once told garyh that I would soon be running a half dozen games...Well, it looks to be getting there.

I have 2 Underdark games (with another in the works), with Drow and other Surly and nefarious types as the PCs...

One wacky and wierd game 'the Dungeon', with everything from Kender to Crane Clan Samurai to 16th ventury Elvish Cleric from alternate magic-rich Earth variants.

Another has the PCs all being Ogres,Half-Fiends,Gnolls and Goblins....

I realized that I didn't have a game with a bunch of 'good guys' on a grand Quest of any sort.
Sure, finding an Elder Artifact to save your House after a civil war among the Drow/

/gaining revenge for your sister betraying you and leaving you to die in a Troglodyte filled Cavern/

/ trying to fulfill a Geas that some mad Half-Dragon Overlord has 'asked' you to fill, encountering bickering fiends,Plant Minotaurs,Oracular Koi Fish and persnickety Atomie NPCs/

/trying to get your Warband back to the relative safety of your Dark Overlord-Ruled Home about a milisecond in front of the Fascist Elven Legions bent on finally riding THEIR WORLD from scum like you? is fun....
But, where's the Heroism!?!

Here I go...

Heroic fantasy? Count me in! What kind of thing are you wanting to do?

Burgain sighed and shook his head as several Dwarfs went by, carrying another batch of Dead...will these young hotheads ever learn?
Three years the Dwarfs had been back in Cuvaghn, three years Dwarves once more strode the Halls of the Ancient Clan of Grentrigh, yet had any of these 'heroes' found the Sceptre?

By Moradin's beard, there had been ...what was it ...'Umprekk, how many now, eh?' The old dwarf wiped a mug down, polishing the silver as if he had cast it himself (which he had, by Moradin).
The one-eyed oldster sweeping the Tavern looked up, scratching his bearded chin 'Moving on two 'unnerd, I reckon.'
Two hundred...two hundred dead and gone to the Halls of the Fathers...
Sure, in the first year there was a great Crusade, goblins and orcs being driven back with ferocity. Why near a thousand Dwarfs had been there, Burgain among them...his father's Axe in hand.
Goblin blood flowed through the streets of Cuvaghn then, wiping away the stain of the Loss, near 500 hundred years earlier.
That was before...before the Dwarfs had awakened the Dragon.
Gods, what a Beast. Some say he is a Wyrm of Fire, some of Shadow...some even say he is a Deep Drake.
Burgain stopped as a Dwarf went by, crying, carrying a young Dwarf that couldn't have been older than 20....so young. The older Dwarf had the look of a Father or an Uncle and he wailed 'Why, of Father-Under-the-Mountain...why did ye take My Enbrem so young. Damned this Quest, Damn this Place!'

Burgain nodded solemnly, he knew this Dwarf's Heart, he had seen this scene so many times in the past three years..so many times.
The door to the Tavern opened and a young Dwarf-lad ran in, excitedly panting 'New arrivals, new Heroes, from Temperlain!'
Burgain scoffed, new corpses, rather.'They'll be dead in a fortnight,lad, best not get too friendly with these Heroes...'
the lad shook his head 'But these heroes are diff'rent, they have a Map! There's a Prince among em!! Prince Alembregh of Temperlain! A Prince!'
The lad ran off to tell his news elsewhere amongst the Hld that the Dwarfs had one back from the Foes, though it was only a small part of Cuvaghn's Greatness.
A Prince, a royal Dwarf here to find the Sceptre of Kings???
Bergain yelled to Umprekk get down to the Royal Suite,One-Eye! Get that place tidied up, there's a Prince in town...and you get out that bottle of Grimple's Gold, the good one, the '54. these visitors won't be wantin swill...'
A prince...


The Characters


I will take up to 6 PCs, half of which must be Dwarfs.
The others are free to choose from any standard races in the PH, as well as lizardman,half-ogre, and any from Races of Faerun.

The setting is a homebrew, but Faerun is an ok default, as there are many other lands on Toril, places where these events could be taking place.


I did say Heroic, so this will be a 40Pt buy.
10th Level Characters.
3.5 Revisions in effect.

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53488

Prince Alembregh is the only 'must have' character, and the first person expressing interest can play him.
The Prince should be a fighter, possibly a Paladin.

The Prince will have a bit of extra loot, in the form of an enhanced weapon ( an additional +2 bonus for free, thus 7 points of Mod would only cost the price of 5 etc...), as well as a few other things.

He must have the Leadership Feat, however as well as a decent Charisma.
His Cohort will be a Dwarf Wizard (played by me), an Advisor sent from his Father's Court.

When I get interest, and confirmed players/concepts, then we can get to making the characters.

My DMed games, for those who don't know me...

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34894&pagenumber=1

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53735&pagenumber=1

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37012&pagenumber=1

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48124&pagenumber=1

I would like to join. I havent played any pbp games, though I have been playing rpgs for many many years (read far to long). I noticed that you are using psionics in your drow game will you be using them in this one. I have been dying to use Mindscapes in a campaign every since it was released.

Well, I'm a bit new/rusty on 3 (or 3.5) Psionics, but I would be remiss in leaving them out....especially with what Dwells Below ...

I am unfamiliar with the aforementioned supplement, however.
Send me any info you want to use outside of the standard and the Quint Psion/Psychic Warrior, which I have.

As far as the Quint stuff goes, I would prefer to leave the more unsavory Psy Warrior options out, no flaying yourself/psychic cannibalism, what with the hoped for flavor of 'Good guys'.
I love a Lovecraftian/Barkeresque game as much as the next guy, but I'd rather have this one a cleaner (though gritty and grim) game.


My email is bluehead69@yahoo.com by the way for any queries.

I will be going to bed soon, up in 6 or 7 hours.

Ah, speaking of schedules. I work at a nightclub here in San Francisco, so I am usually available from Mon t0 thurs early afternoon. then from Thurs eve-sunday afternoon I am working/wiped out etc...this coming week will be a bit hellish, but I'd like to get this started Monday or Tuesday, with everything hashed out etc...

Thanks, Uriel

Must... resist... the... ugre... I'm interested. Maybe I could finally play that melee-man...

Get in there Xael!!!!

I'd love to have you.

-Uriel

How do you feel about races with ECL? Are there any you'd particularly want to avoid?

I was thinking about playing a Wizard/Elemental Savant, as yet I'm unsure as to race (although dwarf could definitely fit the bill).

mindscapes is a pdf by malhavoc press written by Bruce Cordell. I was aiming at heroic so yeah no flaying or cannibalism. The other supplement that I normally use is Mind's Eye on the wizards site.

Re times, i live in japan so my times are probably way out of wack for anyone else.

I'm ok with them, I'm a wacky PC race fan myself.
No Goblinoids or obvious enemies of the Dwarfs, obviously.

Let's fill in a bit here.

'Temperlain has exsisted for nigh a thousand Years, a strong bastion of Dwarvish Power in a chaotic land of Enemies.
Orcs hordes, Goblin nations and an alliance of Fire,Hill and evil Cloud Giants threatens from the North and West. From below, Illithids work their insidious machinations, whilst Drow and Duergar wage a war of attrition. The mountains provide lairs for Fire and Electric Drakes, Reds and Blues, which prey on the dwarfs, but all is not lost...

To the south lay the Elven Realm of Ghesalya, fastness of the Emerald Empress, a fast ally of King Frurdoch of Temperlain.
The Lizardmen of the Yellow Marsh (an advanced tribe-nation) also areon good terms with the Dwarfs, as well as many Gnome Encalves. Rumours have it that Deep Dwarves (Urdunnir) and Svirfneblin also aid the King aganst foes both deep and foul.
The Order of the Stone, a Bastion of the Third Eye Monestary houses many Monks and Psychic Warriors, these including the mysterious githzerei, all sworn to upholding their personal duty of vigilance against the chaos brought about by those who Dwell Below. All of these and more are joined by the Human barbarians of the mountains, long allies of Dwarfkind, as well as those of the fertile lands beyond the mountains.
Strange rumours are these, yet even stranger ones hold that those of Draconic Heritage walk the streets of temperlain as well, their Sires Dragons of Gold, Silver and Bronze...'

So, Deep Dwarves, Deep Gnomes, Githzerei, Half-Dragons.
Half-Celestials: +3 ECL, +4 with wings, though wings wouldn't exactly be great underground...
As well, I am using 'Mound Elves' from the Quintessential Elf book from Mongoose, these are the a subrace that has taken the fight to the Drow in the Underdark.

+2 Dex,-2 Con, +2 Cha
Spell Rest 5+Class Level
Darkvision 60'
1/day Detect Magic & Read Magic
Bonus Languages: Draconic,Gnome,Undercommon,Goblin,Orc,Sylvan.
Favoured:Bard
All others as standard Elf from the PH.

ECL +1