[MadHatter]

Guild Crunch

Wastelander Guild
A guild of intrepid adventurers and dedicaded dungeon delvers, tomb robbers, trap specialist, Underground Rangers, and Fighters wishing to test their mettle flock to this guild. The guild is an established guild along the Cargarian Empire and is backed by the Emperor himself. The guild's main purpose is to explore and document uncharted caverns and then report back to the guild once the area has been documented and mapped. Why trust a rumor, or some lousy adventuring party with pretend locksmiths and trap specialist when you can hire the Wasteland Dungeon Delvers to do it for you? Lost a stolen heirloom, or your daughter has been kidnapped and brought to the goblin's lair? No problem we can get back within a week. We even have clerics of Pelor, and other religions to help us on our missions. Each member of the guild has been trained for at least a month on practice dungeons, and other secret Wastelander training methods before they're sent out on real missions. While Rogues tend to be the most common class suited to this type of work, many other classes with the exception of Barbarians, Bards, Druids, and Paladins often find themselves seeking employment with the guild. The guild does reward characters with any and all magic items they find in the dungeons they explore, but the characters do have to give 50% of all coin back to the guild. This is the reason why the guild has no annual payment, upkeep or equipment rental. You need to requisition a new item for a mission, go ahead and get it.

Game Info:
This game is going to be a D&D 3.5 game based in my own made up world called Islania. Map will be scanned into the game later on, but for now is not important. For all intense and purposes this functions like the world of Greyhawk, but it is instead my world. So when coming up with character backstories feel free to drop Greyhawk city names or make up your own.

Banned Classes:
Because of the nature of this game, and the fact that it is 85% Dungeon Crawls, please do not apply with the following classes. Bard, Druid, Monk, and Paladin

Allowed Books/Sources:

Allowed Resources

This setting takes place in my own world, that is loosely based around Greyhawk. I wish to get an old classic dungeon exploring feel to the game, and want to keep the classes simple. For this reason the following books are allowed. Players Handbook 1, Dungeon Master's Guide, Cityscape, Dungeonscape, D20Srd if you run it by me first.

DO NOT ask to use any book from a campaign setting like Eberron, or Faerun, cause they will be rejected and I will not respond to the question. No book of exalted deeds, vile darkness, dungeon magazines or anything other then the 4 books I listed.

Character Creation

Use the following dice code [6m4d6v1r1]
Roll two sets of stats and take whatever 6 ability scores you want.
If you are still unhappy about your stat array you may use 44pts for point buy.
Make sure to include in your application which method of stat creation you applied to your character.
Character's will be Gestalt with the Gestalt level being my homebrewed Class, I have attached as thumbnail below, entitled “Dungeon Delvers”.

Custom Class PDF

Wastelander Class Info.pdf

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/cl...Characters.htm
Your character's are Level 1 and max HP for life.
Character's races are anything out of the PHB. No ECL of any sort.
Do not buy Equipment. You will all be assigned Equipment. Equipment list is up in the forums under "Tools Of The Trade" forum.
All characters being play with the following feat Toughness.
All characters begin play with 250 xp for the previous month of training.

Note for Application
I am not going to tell you how to apply and what kind of character fluff you should have. Know that I am looking for characters with personalities, abilities and flaws. These are normal people, who became adventures and have spent their whole life trying to get into the Wastelander's Guild. So somewhere in your application I want a couple sentances to a paragraph about why you joined the WG and what you expect to get out of it. I will except getting stinking “Scrooge McDuck” rich as an execuse.

Now I will except up to 6 people in this campaign max. Which means I will only except 2 people of the same class. I am look for diversity and the ideal dungeon crawl group of people. So while a party of 6 Rogues would look cool on paper and be swell for bypassing traps, it would end up getting you a TPK 7 times out of 10. The following is my ideal party lineup.

Ideal Character Roster

1-Cleric
1-Fighter
1-Rogue
1-Wizard
1-Barbarian
1-Sorcerer

I do not need to see a character sheet for a completed application. It is a bonus however and if comes down between you and someone else with a character sheet, then they will have a slight edge. However it is not required. After everyone is accepted into the game you will have 2 days to get your characters ready and then game will start. If everyone is ready and I approve their sheet, we will start sooner.

Final note. I don't want any in party fighting. So no evil alignments, and if your going to be C-N, play it smart. Do not use it as an excuse to play Chaotic-Stupid, or have a Knights of The Dinner Table Hackmaster character in a D&D game. All of your characters have been training together the last month and have became fast friends. Your supposed to work together as a team and get rich, level, or die trying as a team. I don't know want to see anyone hurling some one down the stairs, or checking for traps and then lie about it, so the person walks through and gets impaled.

Campaign

First Mission

Your team is freshly out of training and ready to tackle on their first mission. Your sent on what is supposed to be an easy mission and clear out some old abandoned ruins that have been cleared out for the last 10 years by numerous adventurers and Dungeo Delvers before you. You have a secondary objective other then the standard explore, catalouge your findings, and map out the dungeon. That is to find and rescue one Drak Barrows, if he is still alive. You are told that Drake Barrows is a 18 year old man with dark black hair, and bright green eyes. He wears his family crest of a golden griffon on his yellow and green Tuni, and he is a local Roadwarden protecting the nearby hills and fields from Orc Raiders and Bandits. He was last seen taking shelter in the old ruins on his way across the borders to Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed is a small Village, barely more then a thorp, 10 miles south of the Ruins. Drake was suppost to report in 2 weeks ago but never showed up.

Another team of Wastelander's was dispatched 4 days ago as a retrieval unit. They are higher levels then you and more skilled. But they too should of arrived by now. The name the retrieval team goes by is, “Crimson Hawke”.

Any more info about Stonekeep and the surrounding area of the Cargaria lands will have to be roleplayed and found out in game. Let's just say as a GM, I allow auto succcess for people with a certain number of tanks in knowledge skills. Maps, Images, and other important info will be on the forums as recruitment progresses.

FAQ and Notes

Can I play a Factotum or another Character Class from the allowed source books other then the PHB?
No Factotum's or any other classes besides the classes in the Player's handbook. I am merely using Dungeonscape as a guide for skills, feats and equipment, because I only have it on pdf and am not too familiar with the book in real life. Brushing up on it though and will come into play much later on in terms of game play, dungeon crawls, and class progression.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
PDF of the Homebrew Character Class has been attached. Look in the character creation section.
House Rules and Tools of the Trade Forum has been updated. You want to pay attention to these threads as they pertain to character creation and once you're excepted, to game play and posting.