Ivory Box

[Elf]

The Ivory Box campaign is looking for 2 consistent players to start at 3rd level. The Campaign is on hold until we have 4 core players. We are using D&D 3.5 edition.

The setting is Cauldron in the World of Greyhawk; the campaign itself involves the events of the Shackled City Adventure Path and the adventures of a Chartered Adventuring Company.

The campaign has a lot of roleplaying, intrigue, the occasional mystery and of course combat. Game times are 2 PM GMT Sundays (9 AM US eastern standard time).

Request further details in thread.

[The Overlord]

Sounds good, I am interested. Please let me know if your still looking for players.

[Broadsword]

What time to you play till on Sundays? What classes are you in need of? What are the class/level/alignment restrictions?

[Elf]

We play til 10 AM Pacific time. The following classes are allowed.
Barbarian - per Player's Handbook
Bard - per Player's Handbook
Cleric - per Player's Handbook
Druid - per Player's Handbook
Favored Soul - per Complete Divine or Miniatures Handbook
Fighter - per Player's Handbook
Healer - per Miniatures Handbook
Hexblade - per Complete Warrior
Marshal - per Miniatures Handbook
Monk - per Player's Handbook
Paladin - per Player's Handbook
Ranger - per Player's Handbook
Rogue - per Player's Handbook
Scout - per Complete Adventurer
Sorcerer - per Player's Handbook
Soulknife - per Expanded Psionics Handbook
Spellthief - per Complete Adventurer
Spirit Shaman - per Complete Divine
Swashbuckler - per Complete Warrior
Warmage - per Complete Arcane or Miniatures Handbook
Wizard - per Player's Handbook

Level 3 is the starting level
Alignment restrictions none, although there are paladins in the adventuring company; so evil alignments will not last long. The ability to work together as a group is important in my campaign; it is gritty and there have been character deaths.

[Broadsword]

What classes are currently covered?

[KevenSimmons]

Answering as one of the players... In the primary party we have a wizard (transmuter specialist) and a Paladin of St. Cuthbert. One new player is in the process of creating a monk. And Elf is right - teamwork is critical for death awaits us with big nasty, pointy teeth... arrrrgh.

[Sid1120]

I'd be interested in joining in as a Rogue, although depends on the schedule. I'm free past 5pm Monday-Friday at (GMT -5)

[Elf]

Our sessions are Sunday mornings. 9 AM eastern time (GMT -7 currently) to 1 PM Eastern. I can have the server up at other times for character creation Wednesday to Friday night being the best times.

[Xcenocide]

I could tag along, although I'm not very familiar with the Greyhawk setting (I can look into it though). I'd probably play a fighter since someone apparently picked monk already ;_;

Also, a question: What are the restrictions regarding feats from supplemental books such as Complete Warrior?

[Elf]

Enough questions have been asked that I will post the character creation rules here. If you have further questions ask in thread.

Abilities
32 Point buy from DMG (Here's an online calculator: Point Buy Calculator (https://home.san.rr.com/thegraggs/dnd/Misc/pbcalc.htm) )

Allowable Races
Standard races from the Player's Handbook
Svirfneblin (deep gnomes) as in Monster Manual page 132 (note that the Level adjustment is +3; see Starting Level)
Flumph per Dungeon #118 page 30 as modified by me (note that Level adjust ment is +2; See Starting Level)

Starting Level
Due to the nature of my campaign the concept of Effective Character Level (ECL) is important to understand. Starting level always means the ECL of the character. ECL is also used for experience calculations. For most races ECL and class levels are equal. However races that have a level adjustment subtract that value from the allowed starting level below. If the value is negative the player either has to use another race or allow me to tinker with the racial abilities to bring the ECL into line with the allowed starting level.

New characters or replacement characters start at the greater of: 2 levels below average primary character levels (4.6 currently) or 1 level below average secondary character levels (2.5 currently); with a minimum of level 1. New characters start at level 3

Secondary characters are allowed and start 1 level below average secondary character levels, minimum of 1.

A primary character is defined as the highest level character of the player's characters.

Base Classes available
Barbarian - per Player's Handbook
Bard - per Player's Handbook
Cleric - per Player's Handbook
Druid - per Player's Handbook
Favored Soul - per Complete Divine or Miniatures Handbook
Fighter - per Player's Handbook
Healer - per Miniatures Handbook
Hexblade - per Complete Warrior
Marshal - per Miniatures Handbook
Monk - per Player's Handbook
Paladin - per Player's Handbook
Ranger - per Player's Handbook
Rogue - per Player's Handbook
Scout - per Complete Adventurer
Sorcerer - per Player's Handbook
Soulknife - per Expanded Psionics Handbook
Spellthief - per Complete Adventurer
Spirit Shaman - per Complete Divine
Swashbuckler - per Complete Warrior
Warmage - per Complete Arcane or Miniatures Handbook
Wizard - per Player's Handbook

Alternate Class features
Elven Wizard substitution levels per Races of the Wild
Imbued staff per Dragon #338 page 55

Prestige Classes available
Ask https://www.readybb.com/gamerscodicil/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif
Arcane Heirophant has been approved per Races of the Wild

Feats available
All from the Player's Handbook
Practiced Spellcaster from Complete Arcane
Shield Specialization from Player's Handbook 2
Shield Ward Player's Handbook 2
Most of the other feats from the sources mentioned in Base Classes but must be approved on a case by case basis.

Hit Points
Maximum hit points for the first Class level or Racial hit die (note that only creatures with racial hit dice have to worry about this, and there are none allowed at this point).
Roll in session for higher levels.

Source Books for Spells
All from Player's Handbook 3.5 and any spells on a Base Class list from the original source.
All other spells from approved source books are on a case by case basis.
Currently approved:
All spells from the Healing school in all source books listed below.
Body of the Sun (Spell Compendium; damage is d4 not d4+1 per 2 caster levels)

Starting Gold
Starting gold average for class at level 1 or per DMG Table 5-1 on page 135.

Buying magic items
No more than 25% of starting gold on a single item, availability is on case by case basis but in general items less than 1,500 gp are readily available.

Miscellaneous
Region of Origin is considered to be the Area around Cauldron.

Roll a d100 in game (macro code is: /die d100; do not use the d% on the dice menu).

Allowed Material


Player's Handbook 3.5
All material allowed using the latest Errata.
Monster Manual 3.5
Svirfneblin (Deep Gnomes) as a player character race (page 132)
Complete Adventurer
Scout
Spellthief
Complete Arcane
Warmage and Spells on that base class list
Complete Divine
Favored Soul
Spirit Shaman
Complete Warrior
Hexblade and invocations
Swashbuckler
Expanded Psionics Handbook
Soulknife
Miniatures Handbook
Healer and Spells on that base class list
Marshal
Races of the Wild
Alternative elf substitution levels
Dragon Magazine #338
Wizard staffs
Player's Handbook 2
The feats: Shield Specialization, Shield Ward
Spell Compendium
All spells listed in the base class list from the original Source Book mentioned above.
Living Greyhawk Gazeteer
Used for recent history and political climate; note that there are differences in the history as given in this book.Banned Material


Unearthed Arcana
All material.

[Sid1120]

Must I send you a character sheet prior to game or can I make it directly into FG2? What's the news on the game?

[Elf]

We are playing a pickup while we wait for 2 consistent players. You can join the pick up. We currently have 2 interested players, one has played in the first pickup session and another is likely to join this Sunday. The link below is the forum for the regular campaign and has the pickup details as well.

https://www.readybb.com/gamerscodicil/

Character sheet can be done if you are using Moon_Wizard's 3.5 ruleset; otherwise you create in session. Alternatively you can send it to me along with your desired login name (not necessarily the same as character name) and I will pre enter it.

[Hrathor]

Hey Elf, good to see you're still around. Is this the same game started for Ghostorb or are you running it over again? If you haven't played in one of Elf's games, he does an excellent job!

[Elf]

Hi Hrathor!

Yes it is indeed the one that has evolved from Ghostorb. It is currently on hold as we have not had a stable core for many months. The Grunts now have their own base and recently cleared out a goblin lair.