Dazed (save ends) » Campaigns http://boldpueblo.com/dazed Game Geekery for 4e D&D (and Alternity!) Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:24:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Star*Drive Character Sheet for Alternity http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/stardrive-character-sheet-for-alternity/ http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/stardrive-character-sheet-for-alternity/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:03:41 +0000 Kynn http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/?p=47 Updated! I’m running a campaign of Alternity — TSR’s late, lamented science fiction game from the end of the 1990s — and so I whipped up a character sheet for the Star*Drive setting. You can download it, if you want:

Changelog

7 Nov 2501 2009: Newly updated to include better layout for skills, enough durability boxes for werens, the Stealth skill (which was accidentally left out), and a footer with the download URL.

]]> http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/stardrive-character-sheet-for-alternity/feed/ 0 Old School Style in the New Schoolhouse http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/old-school-style-in-the-new-schoolhouse/ http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/old-school-style-in-the-new-schoolhouse/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:36:39 +0000 Kynn http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/?p=42 I keep thinking that my next 4e D&D game should allow only these classes:

  • Fighter
  • Paladin
  • Ranger
  • Cleric
  • Druid
  • Wizard
  • Rogue
  • Assassin
  • Monk
  • Bard (via multiclass feats only)

And these races:

  • Dwarf
  • Elf
  • Gnome
  • Half-Elf
  • Halfling
  • Half-Orc
  • Human

None of these “dragonborn” or “eladrin;” no “sorcerers” or “avengers!”

Of course, your race determines which classes are open to you:

  • Dwarf: Fighter, Rogue, Assassin
  • Elf: Fighter, Wizard, Rogue, Assassin
  • Gnome: Fighter, Wizard (illusionist build only), Rogue, Assassin
  • Half-Elf: Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Ranger, Wizard, Rogue, Assassin
  • Halfling: Fighter, Rogue
  • Half-Orc: Cleric, Fighter, Rogue, Assassin
  • Human: Any single class

A few hybrid classes would be allowed — based on your race, of course:

  • Dwarf: Fighter|Rogue
  • Elf: Fighter|Wizard, Fighter|Rogue, Rogue|Wizard
  • Gnome: Fighter|Wizard (illusionist build only), Fighter|Rogue, Rogue|Wizard (illusionist build only)
  • Half-Elf: Cleric|Fighter, Cleric|Ranger, Cleric|Wizard, Fighter|Wizard, Fighter|Rogue, Rogue|Wizard
  • Halfling: Fighter|Rogue
  • Half-Orc: Cleric|Fighter, Cleric|Rogue, Cleric|Assassin, Fighter|Rogue, Fighter|Assassin
  • Human: no hybrid classes

…but maybe this is getting a little too silly.

(Oh, and also, I’d only use monsters that appear in the 1e Monster Manual.)

]]> http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/old-school-style-in-the-new-schoolhouse/feed/ 0 The Tide of Summer: background, and backgrounds http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/the-tide-of-summer-background-and-backgrounds/ http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/the-tide-of-summer-background-and-backgrounds/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:50:51 +0000 Kynn http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/?p=24 For those of you who are interested, here’s the campaign background information on the countries in my current D&D campaign, The Tide of Summer. We game weekly at my place in Tucson.

The backstory that isn’t in this document: About 17 years ago, there was a world-wide event known as the Feystorm, in which the Feywild and the Natural world basically crashed into each other. The fey (eladrin, gnomes, elves, and others) are the bad guys of this campaign [1], and are part of Summer Queen Tiandra’s army, the Tide of Summer.

[1] or at least, so they appear to the player characters

]]> http://boldpueblo.com/dazed/2009/10/the-tide-of-summer-background-and-backgrounds/feed/ 0