The Viridian Shield d20 RPG Thread

[ularitharion]

People seem to think this is a good idea - a guild RPG using the d20 rules which would be an Official Part Of The Guild Storyline (tm).

So post here if you'd be interested. No knowledge of the rules is necessary. Once we've got a few people, say four to six, we'll continue from there.

I suppose people will want a story blurb to whet their appetites too!

The Maurell and Kendrick families in Theramore have decided to form an alliance. Caliana Maurell, daughter of Roland Maurell, is to marry Taryn Kendrick, son of Aelas Kendrick. Accordingly Caliana sailed north from Theramore to Nimesha Island, where the Kendricks have their estate. There she was met by Taryn and some soldiers, and escorted inland. But Narispir Moonfire, an eccentric and formerly harmless half-elf sorcerer living on the island, had developed a longing for the girl. Taryn’s party was attacked by gnolls, and during the fighting the sorcerer swept down upon a hippogryph and bore the girl off to his tower. The Kendricks, a weak family, do not have the sort of power required to storm the wizard’s castle, and so another path had to be taken – namely, hiring skilled heroes to enter the tower and rescue the girl.

[kartijan]

Alright, someone with the rulebooks will need to walk me through character creation for this, but I'm game to try to keep up with you all
*hugs*

[meegaan]

I'll give it a shot.

[Fevrier]

I'll help Kartijan with Character Creation soon as I can.... any limitations to which characters we are allowed?

[ularitharion]

Just run your idea past me first.

[kartijan]

Since this will be official Guild storyline material, I figure I should use a variation of Kartijan herself. She is currently 100 years old (yes, very very young) and an adopted daughter of Feather. Priestess of Elune. I assume we start at level 1 for this d20, but once can specialize, Kartijan will be focusing on healing with some buffing (ie power word fortitude) and protection (ie power word shield) while combat abilities will be secondary.

[ularitharion]

Sounds good. Using your online characters is recommended, though not required since you might want to try out an option which isn't available there.

[erichannes]

I will roleplay as Eric Hannes. Eric's a paladin of the light. his mother Tremichall Hannes is a former member of the Viridian Shield, and once a Paladin also.

[ularitharion]

Sounds good!

We have space for one more person only, now. If no one else applies, I have a friend who would love to use his character from a Warcraft RPG we did a few years ago, and will offer the spot to him. But you guys have first dibs.

[kartijan]

Putting Kart together, think I've got it right this time.
Will help Eric put his pally together before the bazaar.

I think Feather has got her char started now too

[Fevrier]

I have a WoW RPG Character template that works with Office 2003 and above if anyone is interested... It's a modification of my D&D template I designed.

Feather is nearly complete - starting her off as a scout and multi-class into Hunter next level.

Just a question here.. what level are we starting off with? Are we all new adventurers or are we starting off at a certain level?

[adana]

I'll probably play as Maryla, though Casteldra may also be helpful in dealing with noble families. Something to think about, largely for Archytas and Solarice's sake, should they play, but for anyone else interested in the race; what about Draenei? They have no race stats-block in the D20 game. How shall we handle them?

[erichannes]

I finished my character!

[ularitharion]

Start at first level. Sure, you're all experienced characters with backstories and stuff, but for the sake of the game's conventions (and my pre-written adventure!) we'll make you all be first level.

If anyone wants to be a Draenei or something else not covered in the RPG, be it race or class, tell me what you want to be and I'll fudge up some rules for it.

Post your character here when you're done.

[Fevrier]

Hmm.... the board doesn't allow for very much HTML formatting... particularly the XML that my spreadsheet gets turned into....

Ok, I have mine and Eric's pages linked to my site... took awhile to redo it all... sorry.
Feather
Eric Hannes

Feather's history:
At 650 human years old, Feather (née Eluminarian Gladewalker) has seen much conflict and has survived many trials in combating the Legion on Azeroth. Still these events have not tainted her faith in Elune, and Feather seems to have maintained an optimistic outlook on life, and is generally quite outgoing and cheerful. Her age lends are a slightly more mature demeanor, but she's still as fun-loving as any other of her kind.
Feather lost her husband some time ago. One of the few remaining waking Druids, he ventured south into the area now called the Barrens to meet with the Tauren, and was never seen again. Due to their long courtship, 4 children were born of their union: 3 daughters and 1 son.
With the disappearance of her husband's diplomatic envoy, Feather adopted a 5th child, her niece Kartijan. The now orphaned daughter of those lost with her husband, has quickly become a close member of the family, particularly with her eldest daughter.

When events started to settle after the war, she wondered what else to do with her life. She'd only known Ashenvale. With her children all away with the mentors for their chosen vocation, she decided to press her vow of restoring nature's balance in the world by expanding the lands she roams.

[kartijan]

Kartijan's charsheet is published here:
www.geocities.com/kartijanl/viridianshield/WoWRPG-Kartijan.htm
Also, here is a rough outline of Kart's personal history for you, Ular:

100 years ago Kartijan was born in Ashenvale, and because her mother was nee GladeWalker, she was in fact born at the family home not too far from Maestra's Post.
Her parents were among the emissary group that travelled with Feather's mate and dissappeared.
Kart was then adopted by her aunt Feather, but since she was such a young age when this happened, she thinks of herself only as Spring Aura and siblings' sister, rather than as cousin.
Isilme knew Kart's grandmother on her father's side and has much knowledge of Kart's history that Kart herself cannot recall.

Possessing something of a wandering spirit, Kartijan has recently taken on a new set of clothing other than the Priestly garb she was in training for. She has now ventured forth to learn more the the world into which she has been born, though she still focuses upon healing.

Of note to me during chargen was a comment that every player should know how the Third War affects their character. In response to that:
During the Third War Kart was, along with Feather's other children, in FeatherMoon being protected in as much as Feather could manage from the various dangers in and of the world.

[ularitharion]

Good stuff! But I'm not sure everything is there. Kart's sheet is missing skills, and I couldn't see feats or spells or class powers.

Do you mind if I use stuff from your backstories here in the guild timeline?

[kartijan]

are the tabs not showing on the bottom of the page for you? (I think there are 3 tabs for Feather and Eric, but Kart should have 5 different tabs) I'll redo it as separate pages if it isn't giving you tabs at the bottom..

and go ahead and grab backstory details for the timeline

[ularitharion]

Oh, you're right, there are tabs! I didn't see them before.

[kartijan]

well, it isn't as if they jump out and make themselves known LOL
the first time I did up a charsheet with that I was upset about not being able to find more than one sheet

[meegaan]

OK, I must be missing something...

What is a charsheet and where do I get one if I need to fill it out?

[kartijan]

*hugs!*
Charsheet is just me being lazy about typing out the words character sheet.
If you have excel, Feather has a template she made that may help. That template is what I used (she uses an online dice roller, but I need to learn to use that yet so I've been rolling actual dice to get my numbers, as per character creation rules in the WoW RPG campaign setting).

I like using the excel template because Feather included a lot of things (I had to create my own spell stuff) so it is mostly just 'fill in the basics' and her template auto-calculates a lot of the things like melee and initiative.....

I don't think I am explaining this properly but hopefully one of the others can help. If you follow the links for Feather, Eric and I in previous posts you can see what our charsheets look like for our characters once the excel workbook was saved as .htm format. I did a lot of editting so while Feather and Eric have 3 tabs, I've got 5 different tabs at the bottom... and I'm still having trouble getting that sheet I inserted to move my skills over to display properly as an htm, it works find in excel ...
anyway, i'm down to rambling now so will let someone else try to help you in a more coherent manner.

*hugs again*
Kart, who will be busy today and therefore tired tonight, but can work with you to input numbers to a copy of the template if you know what your character concept is for this campaign. Maybe we can learn this invisible castle site for online dice rolling together