House Rules

This campaign will be strictly Golarion (no spells, feats, deities, Prestige classes, etc. from other “worlds”), and with races and classes found in either the Pathfinder Beta Playtest Pathfinder Core Rulebook or Pathfinder Campaign Setting. All characters will be based on these “3.75” rules.

Characters can be made for a “High Fantasy” campaign (20 points) using the Point Buy method found on page 16 (tables 1-1 and 1-2 in Core Rulebook). Everyone starts at 1st level in Absalom. PCs should have a reason to be there (edit: Hugh will supply the reason). Use the Starting Character Wealth on page 140 (table 6-1). We are using the “Flat” starting hit points for first level (Max for class + Constitution bonus + 6 points) found on page 14 of PRPG Beta. No evil characters please.

Players are strongly encouraged to email the entire group (not just Kristin, who thinks it’s funny to have an “all gnome rogue” group) with ideas for their new characters. We’ll attempt to make a cohesive party via email and begin play Sunday, October 12, 2008.

Character sheets will created and stored here: https://rpgs.wererat.net/pcs/ so that the DM has access to them as needed.

In addition to experience points for game play and attendance, Hugh is also basing experience awards on timely-written journal entries, bios and other things character-related that help evolve the game world and make it easier for him to spend what time he has working on the campaign. A good background will lend itself to plot hooks for the characters. In fact, if you write a bio and can incorporate two of the “Basic Character Traits” from Second Darkness into your background, you can have those two traits for free.

No character or inventory item, etc. is in play unless it has been approved by the DM. This includes characters that have gone up a level since the last time Hugh has okayed a character sheet. Things discussed between characters that effect game play do not happen if the DM is not made aware of them.

Main books/sources used for character creation:

• Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting or Gazetteer
  
• Pathfinder Core Rulebook
  
• Pathfinder Beta Playtest (and Web Enhancement)
  
• Pathfinder Companion: Second Darkness (character traits)
  
• Other Pathfinder Companion or Chronicles on a case-by-case basis.
  
• Some materials/errata from Pathfinder RPG Home Page, approved on a case-by-case basis.
  

Character Death & New Characters

Character deaths happen, and resurrection isn’t always an option. If a character dies heroically, the player may create a new character at the level the old character would have been at had they been resurrected, with the addition of that session’s experience points. Characters coming into the game in this fashion have to make sense for the story line.

The new character’s starting funds are shown in the Core Rulebook on table 12-4 (page 399). All magic items must be approved by the DM.

Monster Roster

Absalom
12 human commoners
17 Black Echelon operatives

Pyramid of the Dog (outside Absalom)
5 War Hounds (humans)
1 guard dog

Absalom
25 humans
9 zombies
4 stirges
1 mini “eyewing” creature
6 skeletons

Shoreline of Kortos
9 ghouls

Treasure Cave
1 gray ooze
1 very young green dragon

Shoreline of Kortos
3 harpies

Diobel
3 humans

Riveredge
1 dire bat
2 bat swarms
20 bloody skeletons
1 gibbering mouther
1 chain devil (kyton)

Between Carpenden and Olfden
2 ogres
12 goblins
1 bulette

Darkmoon Wood
1 troll
4 vargouilles
1 “evil” treant (avoided)
3 wolves
unknown fey

Snowy Mountains of Stonehelm
3 gargoyles
1 gelatinous cube (advanced)
16 kobold warriors
4 kobold adepts
1 morlock
1 mimic
unknown number of small assassins with crossbows
1 otyugh
1 ochre jelly
3 violet fungi
21 shadows
1 greater shadow
1 wraith

Darkmoon Wood
2 undead trees/treants
1 blue wyvern

Abandoned Dwarven Monastery
3 ettercaps
6 medium spiders
32 plague zombies (kobold)
24 dwarven skeletons
4 ghouls
2 hell hounds
1 choker (rescued)
3 shadows
1 allip
2 ghouls (kobold)
1 cairn wight (kobold)
3 bloody bones
3 ghouls
10 canine humanoids?
1 mind wraith
2 shadows
4 ghouls (hobgoblin)
1 gibbering mouther

Iron Fortress, Abyss
18 varguilles
8 black iron golems
8 dretches
1 babau
1 hezrou
4 shadows
2 shadow demons

Creature Types:

• aberration
  
• animal and beast
  
• construct
  
• dragon
  
• elemental
  
• fey
  
• giant
  
• humanoid
  
• magical beast
  
• monstrous humanoid
  
• ooze
  
• outsider
  
• plant
  
• undead
  
• vermin
  

Loot

Absalom
433 gold pieces

Pyramid of the Dog (outside Absalom)
619 gold pieces
3 amethysts (100 gp each)

Absalom
7 silver “skull” rings
1 potion of cure light wounds, Salma
1 vial of antitoxin, Deaglan
101 gold pieces
78 silver pieces
26 copper pieces
1 amethyst
1 potion of healing
1 potion of invisibility, Salma (carried)

Shoreline of Kortos
8 gold pieces
12 silver pieces
1 white pearl
treasure map, Tythe (carried)

Treasure Cave
fake gold (lead) sceptor, Deaglan
200 platinum pieces
200 gold pieces
700 silver pieces
longsword (magic), Deaglan
+1 Bracers of Armor, Salma
3 arrows (evocation magic), Deaglan
masterwork mithril shirt, Tythe

Riveredge
Fist of Orcus, Candal (sold)
“screaming demon” box (abjuration and conjuration magic), Candal (discarded)
2 copper rings (10gp each)
1 silver ring (15 gp)
1 bronze necklace (8gp)
1 silver brooch with amethyst (50gp)

Between Carpenden and Olfden
33gp
58sp
91cp
2 amethysts (100gp each)
ring of Feather Fall, Tythe
+1 keen dagger (glows), Tythe
2 moonstones (40gp each)
1000gp (bulette reward money)
6400gp (bulette remnants)

Snowy Mountains of Stonehelm
79gp
118sp
160cp
adamantine breastplate, Candal
dwarven helm of True Strike, Salma
Pipes of the Sewers, Liake
gold inlaid Mwangi spear (broken), Griselda
3 white pearls
2 scrolls of Lesser Restoration, Salma (carried)
18 +3 crossbow bolts, Salma
+1 throwing axe, Griselda (carried)
iron key, Griselda
+1 Frost Warhammer, Candal (carried)
Pearl (of Power?, magic), Salma (carried)
“Rainox the Great” +2 Lion heavy steel shield (intelligent), Candal
+1 Dwarven waraxe, Candal
Belt of Mighty Constitution +2, Candal
Dwarven prayer goblet of Lesser Restoration, Candal

Abandoned Dwarven Monastery
+1 Rod of the Python (staff), Salma
604 gp
10 sp
6 cp
2 potions of Owl’s Wisdom, Salma (carried)
2 amethyst gems
1 tiara
12 rings
8 bracelets
3 necklaces
Crown of the Kobold King (+2 Cha), McLovin
Humanbane (battleaxe, small), Candal (discarded)
+1 Heartripper blade (dagger), Tythe
Golembane (gold scarab beetle pin), Liake
+2 hide armor, Salma
1 potion of bull’s strength, Tythe
+1 bastard sword (Linnorm Kings), Griselda
Soul Cage (from demon box, detailed above)
1000 gp (from demon box, detailed above)

Iron Fortress, Abyss
4 diamonds (5000 each)
4 keys (silver, gold, bronze, iron), Griselda

*stuff in this color has already been used or divided up for funds
**stuff in italics hasn’t quite been identified....