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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9073830" data-attributes="member: 27780">Living Greyhawk Journal 00: August 2000part 2/4Character Creation Guidelines: For a good decade, the RPGA has been leading the way in using point buy rather than rolling for stats as the default. It’s no surprise that Living Greyhawk is strictly point buy as well. However, instead of a flat total of stats that encouraged minmaxing, 3e point buy is a little more sophisticated, with a minimum of 8 points in everything and escalating costs for scores above 14. They’re going for the “tougher campaign” setting, giving you 28 points to allocate. This means your total can range from 76 if you go for an all-rounder, to 68 if you pile it all into as few scores as possible, giving you an 18, a 16, a 10 and three 8’s. Any race/class combo from the PHB is allowed, as that’s been one of their big selling points all through the promotion, everyone starts with max gold, you can start at any adult age, be any height/weight in your race’s range without rolling and worship any nonevil deity in the book. It’s all a lot more open than the finicky set of house rules Living City accumulated around kits and specialty priests. There are still some limitations compared to a home game though. Clerics have to worship a specific god to get powers, not some vague philosophy that’d let them switch alignment willy-nilly. Crafting powers and masterwork equipment are currently not allowed, so anything above regular quality needs to be found in adventure, and while your character can choose to not be from the country linked to their real world location, that means they’ll suffer the social penalties for being a foreigner. The selection of what is linked to where looks somewhat lopsided as well, with some countries linked to half a dozen different states, some to only one, (Wisconsin & Michigan are obviously overrepresented, being so close to the birthplace of D&D) the whole of Australia & New Zealand lumped into Perrenland and Africa, Asia & South America getting ignored, showing there’s still no significant RPGA presence in those continents at all. So this indirectly winds up showing where D&D is and isn’t popular, although you’d also have to take population density into account. Lots to think about here, and it’ll definitely be interesting to see if they manage to open up any new regions, or have to ban more things that turn out to be a bad idea in actual play in future issues.</blockquote>

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