Dwimmermount: If Trouble Was Money

The Heroes

List the PCs and their henchmen here. Ala the Grim Fist, I will allow henches of henches. Use the below as an example. Instead of just saying "player character whatever," of course, it should be a link to their sheet. The below is provided purely as an example. Each character name should be followed by the following information Class Level, AC: X HP: Y, and a primary physical attack if you want to list it. So, it would look like Bob the Barbaric, Fighter 2, AC: 15 HP: 9/9

• Player Character 1
  • Henchman 1A
  • Henchman 1B
    • Henchman 1B(1)
    • Henchman 1B(2)
• Player Character 2
  • Henchman 2A
    • Henchman 2A(1)
  • Henchman 2B
    • Henchman 2B(1)
• Dwimmermount Blank Sheet

Encumbrance Ape

I'm going to require PCs and henchmen to keep a generally updated encumbrance total. If you have a magic-user with a bare handful of items, then we can let it slide for a while, presuming that his encumbrance is well less than what would slow him down. Doughty warriors with arms and armor, though, should probably keep it updated. As per prior games, you should have your character's gear calculated on their own sheet. In this section, we track what treasure they have picked up. Note that in ACKS, the weight given to coinage is extremely generous. Note house rules below.

• Character Name
  • Gear: (encumbrance total from gear)
  • Treasure: (List undivided or party treasure here)
  • Total Encumbrance: (add the above together) Movement Rate:

Maps

Put maps here, or at least links to them. I think you guys both know how to draw maps with Google Drawings. If a PC has some kind of mapping proficiency, I'm much more likely to correct errors.

NPCs

List important NPCs here

Setting Lore

Geopolitics, trade modifiers, and other information goes here. Please note that this campaign will largely be about discovery. I will give you bits and pieces of information as we go on, and it will be up to you to record it and take advantage of it.

Setting History

List ancient secrets here. Please note that this campaign will largely be about discovery. I will give you bits and pieces of information as we go on, and it will be up to you to record it and take advantage of it.

House Rules

Encumbrance

• For weight purposes, a gem is equivalent to a coin unless I tell you otherwise.
• If you have purchased a purse, it may contain up to 50 coins/gems without further encumbering you.
• If you carry more coins or gems than this, then each 200 coins or portion thereof counts as one "thing."
• However, up to a thousand can be counted as 1 stone. This basically means that the sixth parcel of up to 200 doesn't weigh any more than the fifth. That's fine, it works out reasonably well.
• If items of Jewelry are worn openly they do not count for encumbrance. However, others will certainly notice your ostentatious display of wealth. Otherwise, the rule that very small single items do not count for encumbrance 'does not' apply to Jewelry treasure. Even a single jeweled ring counts as an item unless you wear it.

Available Skills

• PCs are going to receive more than the standard allotment of skills. I haven't decided how many yet.
• Henchmen receive the normal allotment of skills. However, if they are promoted to PC status, they will gain more over time until they catch up to how many a PC would have.
• Available knowledge skills (beyond the highly generic "history," which will tell you little of value) include:
  • Knowledge: Ancient Lore. This is the most ancient. It is not currently commonly available.
  • Knowledge: Eld Lore. This is also very ancient. It is not currently commonly available.
  • Knowledge: Thulian Lore. This is commonly available.
  • Knowledge: Termaxian Lore. This is the more recent history, and is commonly available.

Languages

• The following are available languages:
  • Common: You all speak this. It is descended from Low Thulian. There is some regional variation, but people of different dialects can generally make themselves understood.
  • Low Thulian: A form of Thulian used by the lower classes and conquered people of the Thulian empire. It was rarely written down.
  • High Thulian: An elegant and highly-inflected language spoken by the literate classes of the Thulian Empire. It was spoken by aristocrats and scholars, and is still the language of the Great Church.
  • Ancient Thulian: The rather more barbaric mother tongue that predated the establishment of the Empire. Many of the earliest holy texts are written in it.
  • Beastial: Spoken by gnolls, orcs, lizardmen, et cetera.
  • Elven: the liquid, lilting tongue of the elves.
  • Dwarven: A workmanlike language of curt words with a highly regular and efficient grammar.
  • The fast and guttural language of goblins bears no resemblance to any other language on Telluria, including beastial. Goblin's strange, transpositional grammar is difficult for even sages to learn, although the dumbest goblin masters it easily. Goblins insist that theirs is the only native language on Telluria.
  • Sages theorize that there may be a Precursor language underlying the similarities between Ancient Thulian, Dwarven, and Elven, perhaps the tongue spoken by the Great Ancients. If so, no one known to man speaks it. The secrets of this language must lay sealed away deep in the earth.
  • Giant, Draconic, and so forth are also available, but note that a LOT of humanoid languages are subsumed into Beastman in ACKS.

Henchmen & Hirelings

• Henchmen go into dungeons and demand a share of treasure. Hirelings do not go into dungeons, and require only a daily wage. For now, assume this stuff is by-the-book ACKS.
• In both cases, morale and other factors might improve if the PC provides the hireling with additional considerations, such as purchasing them equipment.

XP & Treasure

• Please note that sold items of treasure give you XP 'according to how much you actually get for them.' If you get ripped off, that's XP you're losing. This is specifically intended to be a consideration in Muntburg, because the prices you get in Muntburg will not be very good.
• Items of Special Treasure which match types of trade goods WILL use the trade modifiers to determine the price available. The net result of this is that you have to make a choice between maximizing your gains from treasure sales, and staying in Dwimmermount so that you can get the good stuff before rival parties of adventurers do.
• Yes, I seriously am going to have the dungeon change over time, including having levels cleaned out by your rivals. Move fast.

Lifestyle Costs

• A character's monthly lifestyle cost is equal to the amount for a "Henchman Monthly Fee" for a character of their Hit Die. See page 51, ACKS.
  • For a first level character, this includes the shelter and food necessary to keep body and soul together.
  • At second level, the character may ignore the cost for reasonable amounts of consumable items (Arrows, torches, flasks of oil, rations.)
  • At third level, the character may ignore the cost of stabling a riding animal.
  • At fourth, a riding animal and one or two additional pack animals.
  • At fifth, the character's expenditures will likely be noticed anywhere that he stays very long, unless the community is so wealthy as to make this unremarkable. He is probably renting a townhouse and hiring a few personal servants wherever he stays, rather than staying in a boarding house like some common wanderer.
  • At sixth, ignore costs for passage on ships, etc. The character is assumed to have appropriate clothing and frequently buying more clothes. Ignore the cost of basically anything a peasant might own. If he loses his horse, he can get another. If he wants to throw a feast for a village, he can probably do it.
  • At seventh, the character may be assumed to have a small bodyguard of hireling mercenaries, even apart from his henchmen.
  • At eighth, the character can make reasonable consultations with sages, purchase clerical healing, and hire crews for ships (for example) without further expense. So long as he already has a ship, mind you.
  • At ninth, the character's troops that come due to reaching Name level need not be paid wages beyond what is covered by their lifestyle.
  • At tenth, the character should really not be paying much attention to how much any mundane good costs, short of hiring an army or building a fortress.
  • At eleventh and above, most problems that can be solved by throwing money at them are effectively no longer an issue.

Rounding

When amounts must be halved (or thirded, whatever) round any fraction up to one, and otherwise round up or down in the PCs' favor.

Important Links

• Link to important posts and game threads here.
  • Seriously, oftentimes there will be an important data dump or other information in the IC or OOC thread. You may not always want to transfer all the information to the wiki right at that time. Keep a link directly to the post here, describe what the post was about, and much suffering will be avoided.
  • Recruitment Thread
  • IC Volume I
  • OOC Volume I