I have been out of the PbP for about 5 months and I'm still about 2 months away from actually doing anything on them. however while I was away I got into a talk with a friend and decided to do a interest check on something with the intention of opening a thread in a few months. anyways here is my idea.
I want to do a fluid classics dragonlance campaign. where the heroes of the lance are not the originals but can be anyone. where I think that Raistlin, Caramon, Sturm, and Kit are essential to the storyline. (and their betrayal, death, etc.) I thought of way to change it if the story calls for it. basically they would be the NPC's in the Pathfinder rules. with parts to play if it came to it. so it would be up to the players on how to move the story forward. my only complaint about the dragonlance classics were that they were a bit railroady and that there were to many predetermined paths. So the premise is that you can submit your take on Tanis or Flint or anyone else. Or you can submit another person that was Solace that are meeting their friends five years later.
a short rule set would be.
1. all mages suffer from the Curse of the Magi- only first level and 0th spells would not be effected. (basically a fort save when you cast.) whether or not they are spontaneous casters or not.
2. if you choose a divine caster you would just add a "holy relic" that could be anything that would be what you cast your spells through until you "unlock" the divine classes.
3. you can play your own version of historical characters or your own. (for example, if you choose Tika maybe you can talk Caramon into leaving his brother, or just simply be there for him. or maybe you create a mage that is a rival to Raistlin, or a lover that looks past his faults and talks him into not turning on the group. Who would Laurna fall in love with? did Sturm have a brother that looks up to him? ) the only players off limits are Raistlin, kit, and Sturm where if the party chooses to continue their destiny they will fulfill their spots. Caramon is open if you have a good take on it.
I am looking for interest only however if dot a simple idea of what you would play would be of help to let me know some of the hurdles I might have to deal with. It can be as long or short as you want. any questions you want to ask I will also answer. we would be using the 3.5 dragonlance allowed races. if there is no interest that is fine because I talked my table group into this. so I thought that since I would be making maps and stuff it would be easy to just scan them and add to a Pbp.
I'd be interested if you could use 5e
cheers
I'm not familiar with the setting, but maybe. What stat generation system were you thinking of using, Point Buy or rolling? And particular variant systems (ie Automatic Bonus Progression, Gestalt, that sort of thing)? What classes would be allowed?
I would've to play a wizard.
I would be interested. I'd love it 5e but I remember liking the stories so it might be fun with pathfinder as well.
If its Pathfinder you might consider tying traits or archetypes to roles from the story. Sure you still want Rastlin being Rastlin and Sturm being Sturm but if someone wants to be a divine caster that's a big deal too.
I am looking for either a red or white robed wizard after the Test. Would some of the PRCs from the Towers of High Sorcery or even other DL books be available?
Hmmm a cranky dwarven fighter/cleric is needed
Any word as to if this is going to happen?
I'm still really busy with a house I'm flipping so I'm still about 2 months away. so I'm only able to get on once in awhile. I'm just taking a head count on interest and a rough idea about any issues or questions that people may have. and seeing what people would want to play.
i would be using a 20 point buy. and using automatic bonus pogression because dragonlance was a very magic light world.
it would be pathfinder, with just reskinning names if nessisary only, like hellknights could be a Knight of solamnic class choices.
i might consider gesalt, i will need to ponder that. the only things that i will be taking out of the dragonalance books are the races. not classes or archtypes.
How would you do Wizards of High Sorcery?
Interested.
I want to express tentative interest. Tentative in that if every other game I have expressed interest in actually works out for me (which I assume is unlikely with the number of other people applying to games) I won't be able to handle another one by the time this one starts.
It's been a long time since I read those books, and I don't really remember them. But I remember liking them. And I remember that I loved Tasslehoff. :-)