Posting Guide

1. I am always up for suggestions on why or why not something should be changed.

2. As you are starting at Level 12 (ooh, the heady heights), I realise that your builds may not be quite what you wanted, or that you missed something, or that a power / feat / trait / background doesn't quite fit your initial first ideas on your character -- we've all been there, or that you and another character are effectively cancelling each other out / not contributing because they have the same powers / feats as you.

As such, at your first Extended Rest, I will allow you to change 3 powers, 3 feats, a theme and your background pick.

When you level to 13, you can change the same number of powers and feats and either a theme or a background pick.

After that, you will have to use the "rules" of changing a single power as you level.

3. I use the DDi Character Generator and this enables ALL of the 4e Books, Compendiums, Dungeon magazine, Dragon magazine, etc

If you have access to the DDi CG, go ahead and use it to build your character, if you don't and you need something qualified, just ask in the Character WIP & OOC forum

4. Ty, you can't threaten to burn my house down now ... because I am the GM -- you've seen what I did with the wind and the cat cages ... Mwuuuhahahahahaha

5. You can bring in a character from any setting, so you can have a Warforged from Eberron, a Mul or even a Thri-keen from Dark Sun or a Forgotten Realms Earthforger ... I'm easy, you are level 12 and at some time or another you may have been teleported to this world (it is based in the Forgotten Realms).

What you cannot do is be from the Dark Sun Campaign Setting and have powers from the Eberron Campaign. In this case, when you build your character, please use the D&D Home Campaign to build your character (if you are from Forgotten Realms, feel free to use the FR Campaign Setting to build your character).

I want you guys to have the freedom to create -- as I know you all are very creative.

7. Character Generation -- Standard 22 point buy

8. Starting Equipment and money -- 9,000 gold pieces, 1 x level 13, 1 x level 12 and 1 x level 11 magic item.
No need to buy mundane adventuring kit

9. I don't like the rules on magic item powers, that you can only use 2 magic item powers a day, so you can use all of your magic item powers once per day (between extended rests) -- so if you have 5 magic items with "Powers" you can use them all -- where is the fun in not being able to use them

10. Have fun ... oh, and in case you missed it, the Campaign is "Against the Giants" ... it's just a hint

11. You can score bonus XP for Roleplaying - but as this group is already awesome, perhaps I should take XP off for not RP'ing ... LOL

Noobie

P.S. I'll list on a forum how I've met the various peeps I've invited if anyone would like me to, but as I have had fantastic fun with all of them, either as my GM or as another player, I think any combination of any of you will be an awesome group to play with

Narrative
This should read like a story book, written by fantastic people such as yourselves

Any skill rolls, perception checks, etc will all go into the narrative, I'll use RotatingPanda's character Union as an example:

GM

You see a rather unusual looking six-legged half scaled, half furred animal, it has it's back to you, it is the size of a small dog.

RotatingPanda

Union tries to identify this creature using his

Dice Roll: 1d20+15 d20 Results: 1 (Total = 16)

Nature Skill.

Now normally, the GM would then add a new post with the result of the test, then the player would post another reply, etc, this can be very frustrating to the flow of the story.

I would like the flow of the Narrative to continue, so I will simply add an edit to RotatingPanda's post, so it would look like this:

RotatingPanda

Union tries to identify this creature using his

Dice Roll: 1d20+15 d20 Results: 2 (Total = 17)

Nature Skill.

Union is able to recall that this creature is a homolofluff, and that it is very friendly creature that adores ant or bee honey, that they are very rare, magical and make faithfull pets.

This will allow RotatingPanda to edit his own post to add what Union would then do, maybe something like this:

RotatingPanda

Union tries to identify this creature using his

Dice Roll: 1d20+15 d20 Results: 10 (Total = 25)

Nature Skill.

Union is able to recall that this creature is a homolofluff, and that it is very friendly creature that adores ant or bee honey, that they are very rare, magical and make faithfull pets.

Union quietly slips out one of the three pots of honey he actually has in his backpack, opens the lid and wafts the jar in the breeze.

To which I could then reply:

RotatingPanda

Union tries to identify this creature using his

Dice Roll: 1d20+15 d20 Results: 16 (Total = 31)

Nature Skill.

Union is able to recall that this creature is a homolofluff, and that it is very friendly creature that adores ant or bee honey, that they are very rare, magical and make faithfull pets.

Union quietly slips out one of the three pots of honey he actually has in his backpack, opens the lid and wafts the jar in the breeze.

The smell of the honey is carried on the breeze to the homolofluff, the creature not showing any sign of being scared of the crystal being, heads straight for the jar, extending it's long tongue ...

As you can see, we've cut down on the number of posts (if there was another roll, perhaps another Nature roll to "befriend the homolofluff", then RotatingPanda would put that in the same post, and I will then put in the result).

This way, if three peeps made rolls for abilities we can have the check, the result, and the action in the single post relative to the PC, rather then having to flip back and forth between pages, or trying to look for the result of an action between what could be lengthy descriptions, personal posts, etc

FIGHT!

This is Against the Giants, so there maybe a scrap / skirmish / all out war or two

When we get into a combat situation, we'll move to this thread and play it out there, I'll put up a seperate combat thread for each encounter, archiving the previous one (once again to save trolling through tons of posts), the archive will be available to you all to review of course.

I'll copy your characters to the first FIGHT! thread, so you will have all of your Powers / Item Abilities / Consumables, etc available. When you've used a power, use the [strike]Power Used[/strike] to cross out the Encounter / Daily / Magic Item / Consumable which you have used.

At the end of the Encounter, we should then have where your characters is Health, available powers, Milestones, etc.

When the next Combat starts, I will archive the previous combat and copy your character over to the new one (some things may change, if you've taken a short rest, used healing surges, had an extended rest, etc)

I'll then add a summary of the combat, with any highlights like criticals or fumble etc into the narrative, hopefully making it an interesting addition to the story -- if anyone would like to write up their own version of the combat, we can use it instead -- I will put a reserved post for the combat when it happens, something like this:[Fieldset]Uh oh, things have not gone very well with the homolofluff ... it's four inch fangs are extended from it's paws, it hisses and stands on it's hind legs, growing to the size of an owlbear ...

Initiative in the FIGHT! thread

"Here fluffy fluffy fluffy" please ...

Strategy & Tactics

A thread for discussing powers you'd like to use, or suggesting one of the other players does something which will help you with your abilites ... generally, stuff about the combat that you are in.

I will archive this after the combat you are in, it, like the FIGHT! archive will be available to you.

What was that??

Questions to the GM about something game related -- whether that be more description of the homolofluff, a building or predicting what the weather is going to be like tomorrow, this is the place ...

HELP, I'm Stuck

Any questions for either how to post something in Myth Weavers to a question about 4e powers, gameplay, etc

These are for generic questions which anyone can answer, not game specific; mechanics or posting "stuff" is more what I'd imagine this to be

Where did that come from??

This of course is anything you would like to discuss OOC.

This will be the OOC forum -- as a player of 8 games, I often get an email saying "Blah has posted on the OOC thread", and I have to open it to see which Game the OOC thread is from

I stole this idea from RotatingPanda's game where the OOC thread is called Shades of Grey (I checked Ty, you haven't taken a Patent out on this idea ... so I am free to use it ... :P)

This should probably be general chat about what's happening in the world, unable to post due to holidays, etc

With combat OOC effectively coverd by Strategy and Tactics, and mechanics for MW & 4e OOC covered in HELP, I'm Stuck, I'd imagine this will be a friendly and "fluffy" forum