Basilisk Hill Breakdown

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Elevator Pitch

This is meant to be a mid-level game of wilderness exploration and entry into domain level play. The hope is to have a dedicated group of players that can meet virtually one or two times a month. This wiki will be used to track character sheets and assorted information.

I am looking for:

  • Players interested in running a stable of characters (main PC, retainers, and potentially 2nd-tier retainers as well).
  • Players interested in exploring domain-level activities, such as clearing hexes for settlement, researching spells, founding thieves' guilds, etc.
  • Players will be given the opportunity to directly control retainers while their primary PCs are doing other things.
  • If you don't have any of the books listed below let me know and I'll get you hooked up; I don't want anyone to have to buy something to play in the game.

Premise

The adventurers begin play in the town of Liwil. Home to the Order of the Basilisk Knights, one of the last remnants of the Skeldrene Dynasty that once controlled this area of the world, a mini-gold rush is taking place in the town, drawing prospectors from around the region. The adventurers are either recent arrivals -- perhaps from Dry Gulch to the southwest, and the Zelaia Plains beyond, or Hob, Deepwater, or even further east to the Variegated Kingdom -- or natives of Liwil. They find a town besieged on all sides: the Basilisk Knights are dying out, and monsters, brigands, and worse threaten from all sides.

House Rules

  • We will be using the rules from Into the Wild, including the character options (note that the base classes have been altered slightly). Available classes will be listed below. Additional rules from the PHM or Populated Hexes series will be available as they come up.
  • I will provide each player with five sets of 3d6 rolls to chose from. One set will be for the primary character; the others can be used to create retainers already in the PCs service (see below). Stats are in order of STR, INT, WIS, DEX, CON, CHA and cannot be swapped, but they can be raised/lowered as per the rules in OSE.
  • Each primary PC starts with 50,000 XP and 10,000 gp. I will roll for starting magical items:
    • Each primary PC has a pool of 10,000 XP that can be divided among retainers (it is also okay for a retainer to start as a 0-level human at a cost of -100 XP).
    • The primary PC outfits their retainers using their pool of 10,000 gp and magic items.
    • Any leftover XP for creating retainers is added to the main PC's total at a rate of 1:2 (if there is 1,000 XP leftover from the retailer pool the Primary PC gets 500 XP).
  • Cost of Living. Rather than worrying about costs of food, lodging, taxes, moneychanging, etc., we're going to be using the Cost of Living expenses from p. 149 of ItW, with the following:
    • First month of CoL for all characters is assumed paid for.
    • Prime PCs pay Cost of Living for their direct retainers, retainers pay CoL for retainers under them, etc.
    • CoL due at the beginning of each month.
  • Combat Manuevers

Languages

Available Character Classes at start

  • Cleric
  • Fighter
  • Magic-user
  • Thief

From Into the Wild

  • Assassin
  • Berserker
  • Bard
  • Cerves
  • Dervish
  • Godborn
  • Half-elf
  • Hexblade
  • Ironskin
  • Mochyn (boar-folk)
  • Scout
  • Sorcerer
  • Warlock
  • Witch

From Other Sources

Wiki Editing

At this point everything I'm asking players to do is pretty easy.

  • First step is to create your character sheet. You will find a link to the blank character sheet below. Click on the link, press "edit", copy the entire formatting of the page, press "cancel" and return to the main page. Click on your character sheet. It will ask you if you want to create the page. Click yes, then paste the contents onto the new page. Do not change anything on the page labelled "Blank Character Sheet".
  • To create a new page on the wiki simply add double brackets around some text. You can see what it looks like below in the Character Section.
  • Characters should be presented as follows (but with added double brackets around each listing):
    • PC 1
      • Retainer #1
      • Retainer #2
  • etc.

Characters