Contents
 | Character Generation Basics |
| Character Classes |
| Magic |
| Combat |
| Housekeeping |
| Experience |
Character Generation Basics
- Do character conception
| Background/history |
| Lineage, family, tribe/clan, social rank/station |
| Professional/work |
| Outlook |
| Physical appearance, age |
| Lifestyle, values, drivers, likes, dislikes |
| Emotional/Psychological characteristics |
| Goals, objectives, mission |
| Organizations, relationships |
| [Look at stuff from Castle Falkenstein] |
- Read
| house rules |
| optional rules chart |
- Develop character with following restrictions:
| Use the "Point Buy" system for setting ability scores. Use 32 points (High-powered campaign). |
| Apply age modifiers (See SW p. ) if necessary. |
- [Rest of procedure, using S&P]
Character Classes
New Classes
Witch
Paladin’s Detect Evil Intent ability
With the detect evil intent ability, paladins can detect the following:
| Works on undead, monsters, and creatures with intelligence above 1 |
| Works on the following inanimate objects: artifacts and intelligent magic items |
| Characters 9th level or above who are strongly aligned with evil will usually radiate evil intentions. |
| Powerful, evilly-aligned creatures (GM’s call) will likewise almost always radiate evil. |
| Spells like undetectable alignment can shield from this ability |
Notes:
| They can do nothing else during the round they are using this ability |
| Like a spell, the ability can be interrupted by attacks |
| Paladin need not see target, but they must be in range and within the 10’ "width" of the effect |
| Evil intent does not mean evil alignment |
Paladin’s Aura of Protection
Notes:
| Affects evilly-aligned or intentioned characters or monsters |
| Because targets experience this sensation physically, they can almost always sense that a paladin is present. |
| Does not (like the spell protection from evil) prevent bodily contact from certain evil creatures |
Skills
Use of CON (?) as Intimidate bous.
Eliminate Craft and Entertain/Perform as untrained skills?
Magic
Restricted Spell Lists
Not all spells from the Player’s Handbook, Tome of Magic, and
other sources are available in the Forgotten Realms. In addition, some new
spells are available that are specific to the Forgotten Realms.
Please see the master Priest Spell List and Wizard Spell List for a
comprehensive catalog of which spells may be used.
Material Components
Rather than get anal about having you track every little material component
for a spell, the house will assume your character simply has "minor"
material components. Spells marked as having "expensive" components
are the exception. Your character must explicitly acquire and carry these items.
Please see the master Priest Spell List and Wizard Spell List for a
comprehensive catalog of which spells have expensive components.
Use of Spell Points System
All spell acquisition and memorization will use the spell point system from Player’s
Option: Spells and Magic.
Not all spells available to all clerics
Clerics may have to specially petition for certain spells (even if they are
allowed based on spheres) based on need. This is especially true for spells of 4th
level or higer.
Magic and Priest Spells
Priest spells are considered Supernatural (Su). See DMG 71-72. As such, they are not susceptible to dispel magic, and the spell detect magic will not reveal priestly magic (which, coming from godly sources, is a direct manipulation of reality). [Maybe do this as a metamagic feat?] Arcane magic may not counter divine. However, the opposite is possible, and divine effects can counter divine.
Recovering spell points
As a default spell points are recovered at a rate of (total pool / 8) per hour while sleeping.
Memorizing spells
For priests, spells of level 1-3 are "memorized" from books of ritual. Spells of 4th level or higher are gained by prayer and suplication.
For wizards, spells are memorized from their spell books.
For either class, it takes 15 minutes per spell level to obtain/memorize a spell.
Combat
Ready Actions
Rules on how specific to be, etc. etc.
Waiting (holding an action)
Characters may hold actions during combat. When their initiative number comes up in the course of combat, they may choose to wait to act, and then act at any later initiative number.
Aborting
Characters may abort their declared action. When doing so their new action moves to the very end of the combat round.
Ranged Weapons in Melee
If a character is using a missile weapon while being attacked by someone with a melee weapon they leave themselves in a poor defensive situation. The attacker gets a free attack (called and "attack of opportunity" in Player’s Option: Combat and Tactics) immediately after the person uses their missile weapon.
Housekeeping
If its not on your character sheet, you don’t have it
‘Nuf said (almost). Except for minor material components (see above), you must explicitly list everything in your character’s possession on your character sheet. And this means character sheet, not notes pages or some other addendum.
Rolling dice
On the table
Experience
Tracking experience
It is the players responsibility to track experience bonuses based on their character class
Clerical Experience
Things you can earn experience for doing
| Keeping notes |
| Clever use of an ability or spells |
| Adherence to a alignment or disadvantage in a difficult situation |
Monsters and Such
The following monsters are of new types
| Creature | New Type |
|---|---|
| Centaur | Large Fey |
| Gnome--Svirfneblin, Forest | Small Fey |
| Hag (all varieties) | Large Fey |
| Ogre Mage | Large Fey |
| Treant | Huge Fey |