Beer, cider, friends, fun... and the GRE.

[glasseye]

This weekend was rather productive. I:

- Went to the farmer's market with ursule.
- Started a batch of hard cider made from apple cider bought at said market (pure juice, no preservatives!)
- Cleaned up yeast blow-out from the aforementioned hard cider.
- Finally bottled the pumpkin ale that I started in November. 8.1%, and darn tasty.
- Hung out with ursule, tejolote, and ryunohi during a general craft night at our place.
- Consumed beer, scotch, and pizza with the aforementioned people.
- Hacked together a holder for engraving coin dies.
- Did a bunch of GRE practice questions.
- Went for a nice walk through the forested area of Ravenna Park with ursule.
- Played some video games (okay, so this wasn't exactly productive).

Comments

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hey! Ursula and Nicole mentioned you guys might have an opening for a paladin/healer/fighty-person of some kind in the gaming group - how much beer would encourage you to consider me for the part? I'm friendly, clean, house-broken, and not half bad with dice... :P

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Hey hey. No bribes are required, though people do bring snacky-type things to game occasionally. :D

The party could really use a tank or a cleric, but you can play whatever you like within the context of the game.

We're 7th level (full hp the first level, standard roll thereafter - best 3 of 4d6 for stats)
No dwarves or half-orce
Barbarians are severely restricted (IE, you can play one if you really want to, but we'd need to talk about it first).

There's a little wiki up about the campaign here:

http://www.the-immortals.com/lanishen

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

half-orcs, that is.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It never hurts to try. ;)

Tank or cleric is fine with me - I'm still trying to fuss out which I'd prefer. Any unusual world or backstory situations I should be aware of before I start piecing a personality together?

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Well, it's an entirely custom world, with a custom pantheon. :D Magic is fairly rare, especially arcane magic (and consequently, magic items). The gods have generally kept their influence in the workings of the world on the lighter side of things, but times are a' changing.

The main setting is the human kingdom of Lanishen. The lands used to be entirely elven , but humans invaded during the last age and conquered it (~3000 years). An elven domain does still exist within Lanishen (The Kingdom of Parlaea), which is entirely contained within an enchanted forest in the eastern part of Lanishen.

The population distribution in Lanishen is something like:

Humans: 80%
Elves: 8%
Half-elves: 5%
Halflings: 4%
Gnomes: 3%
Dwarves: ~0% (very rare)
Half-orce: ~0% (very rare)

Lanishen is engaged in a bitter war with the barbarian tribes and some dwarven kingdoms in the north. The known friendly dwarven kingdoms have basically vanished. The alliance against the humans is strange, and not well understood.

The party has mostly been concerned with a new phenomenon - undead have been rising all over the kingdom. Certain ex-members of the mage's guild seem to be involved, and recently a fairly highly-ranked paladin turned blackguard and joined the forces of evil.

I highly recommend checking out the wiki. :D

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Orce instead of orcs again! Bleh!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thank you - I checked the wiki a bit last night, reading up on the existing characters, the deities, etc, but I didn't get far enough into it to get the plot concept, I think. And then today... ugh. Silly work keeping me away from fun pursuits. :P With luck, I'll have a chance to read the rest of the wiki tonight.

Okay, here's where my brain is going - I'd like to go with a paladin, if you don't mind, so that I have the fighty stuff along with potential for a little healing when necessary (I'm pulling this off the top of my head without a reference, so correct me if I'm wrong - it's been a while since I've looked at the rule books!). I've got bits of the backstory brewing, but I'll have to go through the details in the story to see how it'll mesh.

Speaking of that last, what system are you running on? I'd love to keep my eyes open for my own copies of the basic manual.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ack - by 'system' I mean 3.0, etc. *Headdesk* It's been a long day.

[glasseye.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. The wiki is far from perfect, but it does have a decent amount of info up.

A paladin is fine. They don't have much in the way of healing at level 7 (just a few level 1 spells + lay on hands, IIRC), but you can tweak the character a bit, especially with a high wisdom score. Or you could always multi-class.

We're currently running D&D 3.0 with some minor rule tweaks, but a 3.5 book would be perfectly fine (I'd recommend a 3.5 book, since I'd like to move to the 3.5 rules later on anyway). If you want to buy new, there's a pretty good gaming shop on the ave a couple of blocks north of 50th called The Dreaming (east side of the street).

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Nods* I really liked what I saw, I just need to get through the rest. And maybe take some notes so I don't get things mixed up when I'm doing character creation.

Multi-classing could be interesting... I'll have to take a look at the book, I've never done that before. Either way, I'd definitely be pushing for high wisdom, so that's good.

I keep meaning to pop into The Dreaming anyway, though I'll probably check the ones closer to home on the way, and the used stuff as well. I've been needing one of the books for a long time, anyway, so it's time to just buckle down and buy it. XD And some new dice, since mine seem to have vanished....

[ursula]

High Charisma is actually more useful than high Wisdom for a paladin, at least until you hit the super-high levels (the points you can heal by laying on hands depend on the Charisma score).

D'you know which god you're leaning toward?