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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3242052" data-attributes="member: 35788">I don't mean this to be rude, so please don't take it that way.  But have you read through the homebrew world information?  If not, you probably should take a moment and read through the parts about the kingdoms and the post on military organizations at least.  You can find the link in my sig.  The reason I say this is because Enigmatica (the homebrew world) does not treat races in the stereotypical way like you find in the Realms, Eberron, Krynn, or even LotR.  The kingdoms of the land are not divided up by race.  In other words, the elves don't all live together.  The dwarves don't all live underground together.  The halflings (or Kender as the case may be in Krynn) don't all commune together.  The world of Enigmatica is much more ... blended.  It is what we would typically expect in today's world.  In general, you can go many places in America or Europe and see all kinds of people blended together.  You can have people of all colors, creeds, and religions living beside one another.  So, in Enigmatica there is no high elven army.  For that matter, there is no natural hatred between elves and dwarves!  (although individuals might have that dislike, but it is not a racial thing).  I'm just telling you this so that you don't go into the game with the wrong preconceptions.Having said that, I'm not saying to change anything.  I am just proposing that you read through the information so you have a working knowledge of what's going on.[Sblock=Fenris, Rino]As I stated in the opening recruitment post, a typical 4th level character begins with typical 4th level XP.  So, you both begin with 6,000 XP as your baseline.  I also instructed that bonus XP would be handed out to characters who come in with a background.  As I stated in the original recruiting post, the amount of bonus XP was to be determined by how rooted the character was in the actual game world.  Based on that, I have given the following XP bonuses:[Sblock=Rino]For your background, I am giving a bonus of 200 XP.  This will put you a little less than 1,500 XP behind the party.  However, given the rules for XP advancement this difference will greatly shrink as time goes on.  Furthermore, I do give out bonus XP for stellar RPing so if your RPing is excellent you have ample opportunity to decrease that gap if you are even concerned about the gap in the first place.  If you would like to root your character more solidly in the game an broaden your background, I will give you as much as 300 more XP.  It is there if you would like it - by demonstrating knowledge of the game world in your background.  If you aren't worried about the XP, then don't worry about it.[/Sblock][Sblock=Fenris]For your original background you are awarded a full 1,000 XP.  Your background is well thought out in the game world and it solidly rooted Varius in the world.  In addition, because of the collaboration attempt I am going to award an additional 300 XP.  This will put you behind the party by about 300 XP, but that difference should dissappear quickly enough when they have a chance to level and you will earn bonus for a short time being a level down.[/Sblock][/Sblock]</blockquote>

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