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Three times every year the Gateway Rite of Passage is held. Anywhere between four and ten of the young adults of the town travel to the ancient temple outside of the town and spend a full 'day' there. It's a symbolic ritual, saying that they are willing to put the community ahead of themselves, even if it's rarely true.

It also makes one an adult, allowing marriage, starting of businesses, moving past apprenticeship, travel to the surface, and other things of that sort.

That's what brings the small group - mostly from one Drow family - here on this day. Night. Whatever it might be. Inside they go.

Temple Map

Everyone please check to see if you can see the crude map. You don't have to place yourselves on it - yet. Black are the walls - there is not a full roof, just a partial one. Yellow are windows - intact windows. Orange is the altar, brown are the few pews left, grey is the door.

Stay for 24 hours, walk back to town. Easy.

Hi everyone. Let me go over the basics. Firstly, I'm not gonna use an DM alias, cause I'm lazy! Well, about aliases.

Second, I'm Amy. I'll be your DM on this trip into darkness. If - and I hope we do - we make it into Paragon tier, there might be extraplanar goodness, but except for that you'll all be in the Underdark the whole game.

Feel free to email me with ideas, concerns, etc. My email is:

For background: You call come from a small city called Gateway. Why is it called that? Because it is one - it's a gateway between the surface and the Underdark. None of you have ever been to the surface - in fact you're all coming of age. The game will start with your coming of age Ceremony, which will be explained in the game thread.

All races can be found here, so play anything you like. Also, note that even if the race you choose normally does not have darkvision, or whatever they call it in 4e, you do. Your family has lived underground long enough where you've developed that.

All characters start with Deep Speech in place of Common. For CB sheets, just leave common in place, we all know what it really is!

So, as for what's allowed: Pretty much everything. Except:

1. No Realms or Eberron backgrounds. (others are allowed); and
2. No Dragonmarks. As a huge Eberron fangirl, I hate them outside of the proper setting for them.

I'm not a big worrier about alignment, and I dislike the 4e system for that anyway, so, don't worry about it. Evil, good, whatever, have fun!

However, for divine character, deities will matter. All divine power source PCs have to choose one, and the choices (and how you RP your patrons ethos) will effect gameplay.

I'm going to try to make the game feel dangerous - the Underdark is not happy and light, but that doesn't mean I'll try and kill any PCs. You might not always have a safe base, however, so think about that with rituals and other things.

Wishlists for loot are good, too.

Backgrounds for characters are nice, but not needed.

For posting, I like Rosey's rules. For pure RP, I'll let you all determine the pace, and for combat, once your turn comes up, you get 24 hours, or I'll DM PC you.

I think that's it for now, questions are welcome, if people have any.

I'm starting up a 4e game that will take place entirely in the Underdark. No surface games for these adventurers. Dark, deep, dangers from level 1!

I'll have more details on the start once the discussion thread pops up, after I see player interest.

I'm ok with a bigger group. Two slots are reserved for Rosey and Fabes if they want them, but I'll take 4 to 6 more people. I'll be using Rosey's posting rules, and initially, google docs for the maps, though I hope to use a better map source once I can wrap my head around map making programs! :)

Simple one, I hope. What mapping programs or system do you use and why? I'm thinking about running one myself and the maps are the only thing holding me back, so I thought I'd ask the GMs out there for advice.

Thanks for any answers,

Amy.

I've looked and looked though all three core books and I can't find an answer, so I thought I'd ask you all.

When a monster crits, what does it do for damage?? Max damage like a PC, or double base damage or what? Does anyone know, and do the books actually say. If so, where?

Thanks in advance.