[3.5, FR][Animal PCs][Recruiting] Animalia Unbound: Defenders of Cormanthor Wood

[Angel Tarragon]

or possibly a warlock if we could dispense with the infernal aspects of the class.

I never liked the infernal aspect of the class anyway.

 

[Ambrus]

It occurs to me that we could turn this whole campaign on its head by taking the Leadership feat and acquiring humanoid cohorts and followers. Just call my PC Aslan!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

It occurs to me that we could turn this whole campaign on its head by taking the Leadership feat and acquiring humanoid cohorts and followers. Just call my PC Aslan!

LOL!

 

[Gli'jar]

I'm interested. Sounds like it could be quite interesting. Can you explain the ecl and racial ability modifiers a little more or is my understanding fine. Based on your example with the bear, if I choose to buy the full strength attributes would it be an ecl of 7 a base of 5 and an increase in 2 for the str?

Is the 40point buy based on the base of 8?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Can you explain the ecl and racial ability modifiers a little more

Okay, stat generation is normal point buy (40). Then, based on the animal chosen you can increase you ecl by 1 for a total of up to +4 to your attributes, but no more than the bonus listed. Does this make sense?

 

[Gli'jar]

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

bump....

 

[Ambrus]

Hm. I'm still interested in the campaign, but it seems that we're having trouble reaching critical mass for some reason. No one else has proposed a character concept yet.

 

[CBonnet]

Just had a crazy idea. Take a bunch of awakened animals or manimals (template from Green Ronin's Advanced bestiary) and throw 'em together on an adventure. Would this interest anyone?

I like this idea too. I'd probably be interested in exploring the circumstances that have affected Voonlar, perhaps as some form of sentient plant-life. An animal druid might be interesting as well. I'd look for some variant that replaces Summon's Nature Ally spells, I wouldn't necessarily want to summon other animals.

If this idea continues progressing, I was wondering how the game would be played. By email, forum posting, instant messaging? How often or how much time would be expected from players? I'm familiar with 3.5 pen-and-paper playing, but I'm new to EN-World.

Thanks for any information,
Charles

 

[Voadam]

This sounds interesting. I'm not entirely clear on the character generation though. 40 point buy and you can increase your stats by 4 appropriate points per +1 level adjustment.

What is the starting Effective Character Level? 8 (if you are a 3HD animal and take the full 5 ECL adjustment for stats)? 10 (the 8 above plus 2 extra animal HD for awakened animals)? Something else?

What sources are open for classes? Any WotC? Any d20/OGL?

Do the awakened animal stat adjustments apply? ("An awakened animal gets 3d6 Intelligence, +1d3 Charisma, and +2 HD. Its type becomes magical beast (augmented animal). An awakened animal can’t serve as an animal companion, familiar, or special mount.")