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Campaign help? Building a new one with my players. [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Ace_of_time
11-10-07, 08:14 PM I tried the races side but I don't think enough people are posting over there to help so I'm trying under here.

Ok me and my group are all DMs now and I want them to get some knowledge on DM so we decide to come up with are our campaige world. The first thing we decided to do is give the core starting races some flare and add one new race each. I will be asking for help in keeping these at +0LA. so I'm posting mine here and my players will be posting their's or I'll post them to see what everone thinks. We each pick two of the starting races. Mine our halfling, half-orc, and I'm choosing to add some flare to the kobolds and make them more played. Thanks ahead of time.

So halfling is stay the same as the PHB one but I'm ading that the way the halflings are raised up in our world they are train from birth almost to find traps and so I add finding traps as a rogue does and limiting the DC to 30. So they can search for any trap of 30 or below instead of the normal 20.

For half-orc I'm adding the berserker str from PHBII. Using character level instead of bar level. and will put the 11th and 20th up upgrades that can be gain as feats at 11th and 20th characters.

Now kobolds; first they are more in to army building and rogue skills then the reg kobolds, so I'm take a-2 of str minus and taking the mining thing off too. Then adding in sneak attack at +1d6 and we will add some feats to where they can upgrade that every so often.

But I was thinking that that I could change them to be like the DW kobolds and count as dragons and give the more HD as they age. Starting at muture adult they would have to gain a HD and would have to gain 2 HD every age cat after that. gain spells at old as a first level sorc and gain spells every age cat after that at +1 per age cat after old to a max off 5th.
Now the first part is a most but I want the 2nd pat to be added to but don't know if the imun to slepp and par would up it to +1 LA or not. We don't allow starting at a higher age so the rest wouldn't be gained before leveling.

So what do you think? thanks again! I ether have them post on here or I'll just post it for them.The half orc would only gain the leveling at a higher level then normal. and we were thing of change bar to that on rage any way say they would stack just over lap. Yes we want to keep it at about the same power level. What if I took away the +2 str? I can't take anything else away because they don't have any thing else that is worth taking. I thought it would be like their orc half taking over. The leveling up with the feats not by level the PC so if they where taking levels in bar they would even bother with the feats. And they wouldn't be able to use some class features just like real rage abilities.

Halfling: I think I'll take the +1 to attacks on thrown weapons.

Kobolds: I could up the spell casting to 2 max 10. They would still be getting fighter BAB and all good saves. I didn't want it to be overwelming. What if I added a breath weapon and keeped the casting as is? I don't want themm to be like another type but a dragon them self so I'll have to think of a good breath for them. Maybe a cone of slowing gas? slowing for 1d4 rounds. (Upon gaining their first HD, not at the start.)
Ace_of_time
11-10-07, 08:22 PM One of my player willcall her player 2 untill she gets an account on here.

Hers are Gnome; human; and she is going with some kind of Anthropomorphic animal but has not chosen it yet.

Human:She is taking away they +4 skill points to start and adding gain plus 4 skills as class skills.

Gnome: She is thinking of adding a animal comp ( borrowing mammal) but not the druid abilities that they give to them. Then they would get the special AC things on that animal if they became druids. She is also change their favored class to druid. She is thinking of getting rid of the rest of the spell like abilities expet the talking to borrowing mammals one.

Anthropomorphic animal: She is not sure yet which and would like some suggestion. She is thinking about horse, wolf, gaint crocodile, and brown bears. She would still have to down grade to non LA abilities. Any ideas or suggestion are welcome.
She doesn't have a one on here yet so I'm posting for her till she gets one.

My wife is doing Dwarf, elf, and hasn't decided yet what her third race will be.

Elf: she is adding TWF.

Dwarf: She is thinking about adding dragon friend and making them more atunned to dragons in this one. changing favored class to cleric and the god to IO. She has decided about the dwaven god yet but I think we are going to do away with a few and say it was some kind of god war in the past and some ether left or died off.
Ace_of_time
11-13-07, 10:01 AM I think I'm going to keep it like my first entry (kobold) and the let the DW feat allow Dragon HD to be gain on age cats.

Wife: She still hasn't decide on third race but is thinking about Maenads.(EPH)

My place to build is a Cold forest. Was thinking on a Archlich. ( Is there a special thing I need to add to lich or is that like an old normal lich) The ECL of the place will be for PC's from 7-12 and will be adding undead to the list of monsters in the DMG for that type. Maybe a side quest dragon hunt. Any good undead cold based monsters. I think bleakborn might be to much.
Ace_of_time
11-13-07, 06:24 PM Here is what I want my main bad guy to be. Frost giant/cleric/ lich. I have to look up epic rules because we never play past 11th most of the time. I'm going to play him as a in the background type. They should hate him pretty good by the time they are able to fight him.
Ace_of_time
11-18-07, 10:47 PM I'm using the skelies and zombies from eberron for the monster for the frost gaint. With that and the reg monsters it should be good. Also got 10 towns in the place. Making it a Valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. As the Campaign starts she is going to start invading the DM 2's lands.

We Decided to do character creation different so each is going to come up with are own method for it and add it it the campaign choices. Right now we use 5d6 reroll lowest 2. I only have two players and we play high powered games so we want to keep it keep it about that level of play. Mine is a points based one but I'm adding some random elements. I'm thinking 25 + 4d4 bonus points. That should put the average at 35 points. Max of 41.
Ace_of_time
11-25-07, 12:12 AM OK so I read up on epic levels and my frost giant' a bust. No spell after 20th would put him at 11th caster with 1st level spells. I have decided to go half giant/ cleric /lich. Build is go for 20 but maybe high. I still have to remember where half giant is and read up a little. I'll post him some time.

My wife is doing a kobold boss and starting us on a beach of one of her many islands she has made. Going for undead kobolds attacking town and would like some idea's on a build for her boss. Any help thanks.

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Ace_of_time 11-10-07, 08:14 PM	I tried the races side but I don't think enough people are posting over there to help so I'm trying under here. Ok me and my group are all DMs now and I want them to get some knowledge on DM so we decide to come up with are our campaige world. The first thing we decided to do is give the core starting races some flare and add one new race each. I will be asking for help in keeping these at +0LA. so I'm posting mine here and my players will be posting their's or I'll post them to see what everone thinks. We each pick two of the starting races. Mine our halfling, half-orc, and I'm choosing to add some flare to the kobolds and make them more played. Thanks ahead of time. So halfling is stay the same as the PHB one but I'm ading that the way the halflings are raised up in our world they are train from birth almost to find traps and so I add finding traps as a rogue does and limiting the DC to 30. So they can search for any trap of 30 or below instead of the normal 20. For half-orc I'm adding the berserker str from PHBII. Using character level instead of bar level. and will put the 11th and 20th up upgrades that can be gain as feats at 11th and 20th characters. Now kobolds; first they are more in to army building and rogue skills then the reg kobolds, so I'm take a-2 of str minus and taking the mining thing off too. Then adding in sneak attack at +1d6 and we will add some feats to where they can upgrade that every so often. But I was thinking that that I could change them to be like the DW kobolds and count as dragons and give the more HD as they age. Starting at muture adult they would have to gain a HD and would have to gain 2 HD every age cat after that. gain spells at old as a first level sorc and gain spells every age cat after that at +1 per age cat after old to a max off 5th. Now the first part is a most but I want the 2nd pat to be added to but don't know if the imun to slepp and par would up it to +1 LA or not. We don't allow starting at a higher age so the rest wouldn't be gained before leveling. So what do you think? thanks again! I ether have them post on here or I'll just post it for them.The half orc would only gain the leveling at a higher level then normal. and we were thing of change bar to that on rage any way say they would stack just over lap. Yes we want to keep it at about the same power level. What if I took away the +2 str? I can't take anything else away because they don't have any thing else that is worth taking. I thought it would be like their orc half taking over. The leveling up with the feats not by level the PC so if they where taking levels in bar they would even bother with the feats. And they wouldn't be able to use some class features just like real rage abilities. Halfling: I think I'll take the +1 to attacks on thrown weapons. Kobolds: I could up the spell casting to 2 max 10. They would still be getting fighter BAB and all good saves. I didn't want it to be overwelming. What if I added a breath weapon and keeped the casting as is? I don't want themm to be like another type but a dragon them self so I'll have to think of a good breath for them. Maybe a cone of slowing gas? slowing for 1d4 rounds. (Upon gaining their first HD, not at the start.)
Ace_of_time 11-10-07, 08:22 PM	One of my player willcall her player 2 untill she gets an account on here. Hers are Gnome; human; and she is going with some kind of Anthropomorphic animal but has not chosen it yet. Human:She is taking away they +4 skill points to start and adding gain plus 4 skills as class skills. Gnome: She is thinking of adding a animal comp ( borrowing mammal) but not the druid abilities that they give to them. Then they would get the special AC things on that animal if they became druids. She is also change their favored class to druid. She is thinking of getting rid of the rest of the spell like abilities expet the talking to borrowing mammals one. Anthropomorphic animal: She is not sure yet which and would like some suggestion. She is thinking about horse, wolf, gaint crocodile, and brown bears. She would still have to down grade to non LA abilities. Any ideas or suggestion are welcome. She doesn't have a one on here yet so I'm posting for her till she gets one. My wife is doing Dwarf, elf, and hasn't decided yet what her third race will be. Elf: she is adding TWF. Dwarf: She is thinking about adding dragon friend and making them more atunned to dragons in this one. changing favored class to cleric and the god to IO. She has decided about the dwaven god yet but I think we are going to do away with a few and say it was some kind of god war in the past and some ether left or died off.
Ace_of_time 11-13-07, 10:01 AM	I think I'm going to keep it like my first entry (kobold) and the let the DW feat allow Dragon HD to be gain on age cats. Wife: She still hasn't decide on third race but is thinking about Maenads.(EPH) My place to build is a Cold forest. Was thinking on a Archlich. ( Is there a special thing I need to add to lich or is that like an old normal lich) The ECL of the place will be for PC's from 7-12 and will be adding undead to the list of monsters in the DMG for that type. Maybe a side quest dragon hunt. Any good undead cold based monsters. I think bleakborn might be to much.
Ace_of_time 11-13-07, 06:24 PM	Here is what I want my main bad guy to be. Frost giant/cleric/ lich. I have to look up epic rules because we never play past 11th most of the time. I'm going to play him as a in the background type. They should hate him pretty good by the time they are able to fight him.
Ace_of_time 11-18-07, 10:47 PM	I'm using the skelies and zombies from eberron for the monster for the frost gaint. With that and the reg monsters it should be good. Also got 10 towns in the place. Making it a Valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. As the Campaign starts she is going to start invading the DM 2's lands. We Decided to do character creation different so each is going to come up with are own method for it and add it it the campaign choices. Right now we use 5d6 reroll lowest 2. I only have two players and we play high powered games so we want to keep it keep it about that level of play. Mine is a points based one but I'm adding some random elements. I'm thinking 25 + 4d4 bonus points. That should put the average at 35 points. Max of 41.
Ace_of_time 11-25-07, 12:12 AM	OK so I read up on epic levels and my frost giant' a bust. No spell after 20th would put him at 11th caster with 1st level spells. I have decided to go half giant/ cleric /lich. Build is go for 20 but maybe high. I still have to remember where half giant is and read up a little. I'll post him some time. My wife is doing a kobold boss and starting us on a beach of one of her many islands she has made. Going for undead kobolds attacking town and would like some idea's on a build for her boss. Any help thanks.