After reading much of KaeYoss "Problem Player" thread, I figured that one thing I have not been doing well is giving my players a good idea of what the AP will be about so they can make "appropriate" characters.
What I *have* told them (6 players) is:
1) SRD only + Beta Pathfinder rules + Prestige classes from the Pathfinder campaign setting.
2) Old DMG 28 point buy
3) Other normal 1st level stuff
4) and a recommendation on character classes, cleric, fighter(tank), rogue, sorcerer/wizard, 2nd tank (paladin, ranger, monk, etc), and a sixth character (druid, bard, etc), but I do leave what they play up to them. *Really* prefer no multi-class characters except for 1 PrC.
What I would like to also give them is a paragraph on what to expect out of the campaign so they can make characters that will last and be useful through the whole adventure. Does anyone have something like that?
-- david
Papa.DRB
Quite a bit of the ROTRL campaign takes place outdoors, the Druid and the Ranger are more powerful in this campaign than many others.
I play a Druid in this campaign and he is the most powerful PC in the party (summoner specialist, works great with the many large rooms laying around).
I would definitely mention that outdoor characters will do well in this campaign. Also this is more of a conventional campaign, not too many planar type adversaries like in STAP. You don't want clerics devoted to undead or demons in this campaign. Just what I have seen so far going through Hook Hill.
Also, while not Xenophobic, the residents of the small town are not exactly cosmopolitan.
Half-Orcs have special challenges. An Asamar, Tiefling, Dragonborn, etc should be almost unplayable.