Editing Midnight: North & South Portal

[[Image:Midnight logo image.jpg|frame| <br> '''[http://darknessfalls.leaderdesslok.com/images/eredane_map1.jpg MAP OF EREDANE]'''  <br> '''Welcome to the Midnight: North & South campaign wiki.''' <br> With the Campaigns beginning on October 7th 2006, this wiki site is a resource for a face-to-face tabletop fantasy role-playing game using the Midnight Setting for the Dungeons and Dragons system.  This site is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki] which is a web page that can be edited by anyone with surfing the web!  The goal of this wiki site is to form a repository of information about our game that is easily accessible and editable to the entire game group.  A "campaign series bible". <br>  Two seperate campaigns in the same Midnight world continuity.
<br> '''[[Midnight RPG - THE NORTHERS]]''': 
<br> '''[[Midnight RPG - THE SOUTHIES]]''': 
<br>  There is also a third, mini-campaign in this continuity
<br> '''[[Mighight RPG - RAIDING LARDUN]]''':
<br> <br> '''the Campaign Connections'''  <br> [[Midnight Basics]]:  a very short info brief about the difference of '''Midnight''' and '''D&D'''.  <br>  <br> [[Midnight Character Creation]]:  all the notes on creation your character.  <br> [[Midnight PRE-GAME Character Background]]:  herein are all the various options for players to do character background and the awards for the efforts. <br> <br>  [http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/DnD_MIDNIGHT_Seattle/ Midnight: North & South Yahoo Discussion]:  This is where the group actively discusses game events, recaps as well as the planning of game gatherings and general group chit chat.  <br> <br>  [[Midnight: Chapters of the North & South]]:  This is the spot for game session recaps by both GM and Players, described by the chapters of our books through.   Midnight: North & South [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial serial] campaign is broken into story arcs.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_arc What are Story Arcs]? <br>   <br> [[Midnight Party Game Calendar]]:  Here are the working calendars for the two parties.<br><br> '''Quotes''' <br> [[Midnight: North & South Game Inspiration Quotes]] ]]
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''Armies of Elves, Dwarves and Men attempted to defeat 
Izrador the Enemy, the Shadow in the North, 
in the most important and final of battles in the Third Age. They met and fought valiantly against armies of Orc, Demon, Dragon and other Shadow Minion 
on the southern shore of the Pellurian Sea. 

But… They lost. 
It is the the Last Age of man… 

Hope takes hold for one last effort. 
The dream... salvation of mankind, elfkind, the men of stone 
and those that wish to live free...  The Queen of Elves, the King of Dwarves, Patriarch of Dragonkind, Kith & kin of halfling and gnome, the Sons of Man - they call to you.
 
What will you do? 
WHAT MUST YOU DO? 
For destiny to survive you must reforge, what would not be... 

'''“Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!”''' 
The words of hope strung together in the black tongue meaning “Out of darkness bind them!”
 
These bainful words shall be spoken as a rally cry, a call, a voice in the darkness - asking for help... 

Asking for hope...
''<br> 

 



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All the people of '''[Eredane]''' know that freedom is a dying word. '''[The Shadow in the North]''' is a seemingly unstoppable force. The weak and the mad give in to his dark temptations, while the strong and the wise can only fight, and die. Some say that there is no hope against the dark lord and his '''[Night Kings]'''. <br> But the land of Eredane is vast and older than men or elves; throughout the ages, many things have been lost amidst is open plains, its hidden crags, its dark forests, and its cold lakes. Some of those things have been uncovered by accident or design, by the minions of the Shadow or by the forces of light who resist his insane and cruel plans ... these are the secrets of shadow.  [[Daily Life Under the Shadow]] <br><br> Through the ages destiny has searched for those with the will and want to make a difference in the Last Age of Man the Light is cast to two groups thousands of miles seperated by land but standing side by side against the Shadow in the North.  One group of '''[Pathwalkers]''' begins their journey in the space between '''[Alvedara]''' and '''[Cambrial]''', while the other find their journey beginning just below '''[Cale]''' some distance from '''[Steel Hill]''' and the '''[Veradeen]'''.
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==Setting Background==
All the people of Eredane know that freedom is a dying word. The Shadow in the North is a seemingly unstoppable force. The weak and the mad give in to his dark temptations, while the strong and the wise can only fight, and die. Some say that there is no hope against the dark lord and his Night Kings. <br> But the land of Eredane is vast and older than men or elves; throughout the ages, many things have been lost amidst is open plains, its hidden crags, its dark forests, and its cold lakes. Some of those things have been uncovered by accident or design, by the minions of the Shadow or by the forces of light who resist his insane and cruel plans ... these are the secrets of shadow.  [[Daily Life Under the Shadow]]



==RULES==
'''House Rules in effect in The Scroll Bearers campaign:'''
*  No XP penalty for multiclassing. Instead, characters with levels in a preferred class gain a bonus feat at 1st, 5th, and 10th class level.
*  Bonus skill ranks from high intelligence can be used to buy a full rank in non-class skills, not a half-rank. 
''[These house rules were adopted from d20 Conan by Mongoose.]''
*  Beyond the spells granted by Channeler levels and feats, channeling spellcasters can learn a number of spells equal to their casting ability modifier each character level.  The total number of spells a character can learn in this manner is cumulative.  So, if a character with a 16 (+3 modifier) in her casting ability score were to learn only one new spell at level 1 (beyond the spells granted by Channeler levels and feats), she would be able to learn five new spells at level 2.  For the purposes of counting the total number of spells learned by a character, 0-level spells count as half a spell.


===ALIGNMENT===
*  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28role-playing_games%29 Alignment]:  Defined at Wikipedia.


===SPELLS===
*  [http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/PDF/3.5%20midnightspelllist.pdf Midnight spells list], updated to 3.5 ed. rules
*  [http://darknessfalls.leaderdesslok.com/midnight_spell-list.htm Full spell list from ''Darkness Falls'' SRD site]

==Resources==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki One-on-One!]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Wiki-up at Wikipedia!] 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game RPG defined by Wiki!]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamemaster Game Master defined by Wiki!]
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* [http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ Fantasy Flight Games]:   Creators of the Midnight setting.
** [http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/midnight.html Midnight Homepage]
** [http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=6 Official Midnight Forum]
* [http://www.againsttheshadow.org/index.php Against the Shadows]:  Uber-fan Website, THE place to go for all things Midnight.
** [http://www.againsttheshadow.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=index AtS Forums]
* [http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome Dungeons & Dragons Homepage]
* [http://darknessfalls.leaderdesslok.com/ Darkness Falls]:  The Midnight SRD
* [http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/35/sovelior_sage/home.html System Reference Document v3.5]:  The D&D 3.5 SRD
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*  [[Midnight Contract]]:  this is a easy list talking about game group social things, it's just handy to know what's expected.
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* [http://www.againsttheshadow.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=43&page=1 Intro to Midnight: DMs]
* [http://www.againsttheshadow.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=42&page=1 Intro to Midnight: Players]
* [http://www.againsttheshadow.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index Midnight: FAQ]
*  [[Pyric Points]]: an idea for fate points in Midnight.
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* '''Names''' a list of naming reference for the different cultures of Ayrth in Midnight. You can get the idea of how to think about the NPC cultures and such, especially the humans
** '''Dorns''': Celtic and Norse.
** '''Sarcosans''': Persian and Arabic.
** '''Erenlander''': Spanish, English and French.
** '''Dwarven''': Hebrew and the catalogue on the Poetic Edda.
** '''Gnomes''': Slav and Italian.
** '''Wood Elves''': Tolkien Elvish and Celtic.
** '''Sea elves''': Tolkien Elvish and Celtic.
** '''Jungle Elves''': Central African, Hindi and Sanskrit.
** '''Snow Elves''': Russian.
** '''Orcs''': Germanic.
** '''Halflings''': Irish, Native American and Gypsy.

==SPOILERS==
* [[Kevin Perrine Campaign SPOILER Page]]:  GM EYES ONLY,  NOT for players of this campaign!!


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