[Sollister]

Premise: One needs no premise to entice the truly adventurous

Rule set: DnD 3.5; allowing PHBI/II, XHB, SRD, Complete Mage/Arcane, Champion, Divine, Adventurer, Psionic, Warrior, Miniatures Handbook, Unearthed Arcana, Sandstorm, Frostburn, Heroes of Horror, Dragon Magic

Style: Dungeon Crawl…Battle…Horror….Mystery…Occasional sandboxing….Team play….Loners learn quickly about its gritty R rating for blood and violence

Flavor: Dark Fantasy…no Frodo and Sam bromances

Experimental: Many variations from Unearthed Arcana (UA) and some Play by Post (PbP) adaptions I am working on. This is the major emphasis to this game; to try out some game flow ideas.

Magic: Spell Point system; magic is impeded…it is still there, characters will roll Spellcraft checks a lot

Psionic and Magic Transparency: Two separate sources, two separate outcomes

Maps: A picture is worth a thousand words. I like to play with GIMP and Never Winter Nights tile sets.

Words: XP rewards for those that can paint a picture without using one

Post expectancy: Daily, even more if in combat. I hereby claim the right to Redshirt any character that seems to have no player controlling it…I don’t mind introducing your character to the gritty R rating of dark fantasy writing.

Speaking of Characters: Players will create one character

ECL-2 and full hit points; hit points will be rolled after ECL-2
--Themed Gestalt – we are going for character concept here – see below.
--No templates
--Races can be from all sources allowed; LA +1 only and LA fills in both sides of the gestalt; nothing dragonish or undeadish; has to be a role-play choice
--Starting wealth – put together some normal stuff in your inventory then put 10 gp in your money pouch and call it good.
--Backgrounds – don’t wanna hear it. You are just starting out and don’t have much of a story right now. No more Walt Disney orphans
--Purpose – how does your character fit into a party role…gimme something besides tank, healer, dps…really
--Description – I make look down tokens for maps and I would like to create the character token to be something that looks like your character’s physical description…copy?
--No flaws and traits…what a mirage, I thought this was called role-playing. Anyone that wants to role-play a flaw will get XP accordingly…that’s the only benefit

Themed Gestalt no PrCs:
One side of the Gestalt is going to be from the Generic Classes found in the Unearthed Arcana and SRD, and a Generic Manifester homebrew

Characters can only have one caster/manifester class. So no gestalt Wizard//Spellcasters

Generic Bonus Feats can be used to get class features from other classes. For instance, a generic bonus feat could be used to get Mettle, a class feature from the Hexblade, or they can be used for things like an Animal Companion from the Druid class. Try to use feats that compliment your character concept. Frown ye this day evermore on optimizing

Class features do not stack. You can’t have two Animal Companions and, may your nose fall off if you think about getting two familiars. You can have an Animal Companion, a familiar, and a psicrystal, though

Stats:
We won’t be rolling stats

Your characters will all have +12 points in ability modifiers with no more than +4 in any one single ability. So, if you want Strength to have a +4 you would make your Strength 19…ur 18 if you really want to. You can only allocate one 19 for your six abilities. You can make all your scores 15s. ur 14s if you really want to. All stats will be at least 10 and don’t ask to reduce a 10 in order to get more bonus elsewhere. These scores are not raised or lowered with racial stat modifiers. All players will have +12 points in modifiers initially.

Applying and playing in this game largely depends on you. I can efficiently facilitate an adventure for many players so playing in this game will depend on how fast you want to get in and start crushing the dungeon dwellers that guard your treasure. Advancement will largely depend on you!

If you decide to play, build your character. Once accepted, this character is at one of the many entrances to Mount Fang…ready for adventure.