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| 1. Tools |
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Wizard's
Spellbook Generator (version 2.9)
Brief Description:
I have developed a spreadsheet (Excel) with some macros, that allows
you to randomly generate, edit, and then print, Wizard's spell books,
based on level. At first, you may say - "So what?!" However, what
makes this unusual, is that the spell books, once printed, have the
full text of the spells listed on them. Also, the database from which
the spells are randomly selected includes all the spells in the Players
Handbook, the Tomb of Magic and the Forgotten Realms Adventures, AS
WELL AS, all spells from the Great Net Spell Book (admittedly not
the latest version). This means that there 2216 spells available from
which the spell book can be created. Note that the randomness is influenced
on whether the spell is ranked as Common, Rare or Unique. NOTE that
if you do not own the PHB, TOM or FRA then to use this tool, you should
go into the Data sheet, and remove all lines marked as from those
sources.
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"Easy"
Character Sheet (version 2.5) (FOR
SECOND EDITION!)
Brief Description:
I have also developed this spreadsheet based character sheet. Essentially,
what makes it "Easy" is that it has a whole load of the PHB tables
incorporated into a separate "Lookup" spreadsheet, and then a load
of formula that pull in the correct information based upon what type
of character you have generated. It is similar to one of those "Automatic
Character Generation" programs, however it leans more towards being
a tool for keeping your character sheet up-to-date. It makes character
generation quicker, and certainly takes the pain out of going up (or
down :-) a level!
Information that is automatically worked out for you
includes:
All
Stats related info
Non-Proficiencies (including slots left)
Weapon Statistics (including to hit and damage bonuses & ranges
for missiles weapons)
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Experience to next level. |
Armour
Class (including Dex bonus - but not yet including armour modifiers)
Thief Skills (if appropriate)
Spell capability
Race and Class benefits/hindrances
Saving Throws |
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"Easy"
Character Sheet (version 8) (FOR
3.5 EDITION!)
Brief Description:
This is still very much a WORK IN PROGRESS -
but intends to help the character generation process for 3.5 edition...
looking better than ever now! Similar to the 2nd edition version,
it auto-populates a large number of fields, and helps simplify the
process of leveling up.
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| 2. Games I play in |
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DragonLance
This page is for a game which I've been playing in
(and DMing for a year or so as well) since the year 2000. I play Hathar,
a grumpy old dwarf who is a "Flint" look-alike. Initially,
the game was run by Mike Mehrwin, then by Steve Weigold, then by myself,
and currently, by Debora Bergeron. I'm pretty sure
I'm the only player who is left from the original starting point!
(Played on Yahoo Groups)
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The
Shackled City
This game is run by Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen
- who plays a character (Rugadh Faoi) in Steve's WWC Campaign
above. It is intended to be a long duration adventure, taking the
characters from 1st to 20th level, and is set in the world of Greyhawk.
Unlike most other PBeM, this is run on a Forum hosted on Marc's own
site. My pages here containg a game history and a few other miscellaneous
bits of information relative to Bordrik. Currently Bordrick has only
reached 4th level in this game - it may well take a fair while longer
before he becomes the whirling dwarven dervish that I'm hoping he
will be...
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Epic
Hunt for Abominations
This game is run by Steph (aka Schaffer1979)
on the ROLEPLAY on-line site. It is
a game starting at 20th level, based in the city of Union. I'm playing
a halfling rogue named Sondirra..
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Shadow
of the Old Empires
This game was run by Darren - who
also plays in the Shackled City game above. This game was set in the
Old Empires. It was played on a forum as well (ROLEPLAY
on-line), though a different one to the one that Marc's game runs
on. My pages here containg a game history and a few other miscellaneous
bits of information relative to my character Aukan - a goliath fighter...
Sadly, the game has died the death of a demotivated DM...
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| 3. Games I run |
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The
Northern Journey Campaign
Actually,
this represents two games I run - as I am running the same campaign
twice - once via PBeM, and once as a table top game with some of my
old collage gaming buddies... The latter has been on pause recently
as I have started to run a new 3.5 edition game with them. Both of
the Northern Journey games are currently running on 2nd edition. Follow
the link to a dedicated site I run with a LOT of
background information that players of the Northern Journey Campaign
might want to know or that anyone might want to read about the Forgotten
Realms.. Please feel free to browse through the site, I am constantly
updating this with extra information. I
will try to highlight any
information that is specific to the players of my face-to-face campaign
and potentially "plot revealing" to other players of other
NJ campaigns who might browse here, so that they can avoid it.
NOTE 1:
Players of my Northern Journey PBeM game will find
additional information specific to their version of the campaign on
my YahooGroups
NorthernJourneyPBeM site. Access to this is limited to the
players in my PBeM or Lurkers. It is recommended that if you are a
player in another Northern Journey game that you don't go there!
NOTE 2:
Other DMs of the Northern Journey PBeM game may find my YahooGroups
NJDiscussion site useful - NOT for NJ players!
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The
Night Hawk
This is the on-going
story of a one-on-one PBeM I am playing with my good friend Richard
"Jonah" Jones. Essentially, he plays
a half-drow, who grew up in the Drow city of Hauldrauth, escaping
to the surface and establishing himself in Neverwinter... This is
written more like a novel than a normal PBeM - my documenting the
results of the gaming sessions as best I can after the fact. It is
also rather slow going and itermittant... very much like the gaming
sessions!
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Valhad
This is a one-on-one game I started to play with Volcan
Erincmen, someone I met through work... He and I started to play it
as a PBeM, but that proved not to work too well, as I was overcommitted
already on various PBeMs... When we have occasionally met up (he lives
and works in Istanbul!), we have usually tried to get in a few hours
of gaming and have played most of the module in that way.
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| 4. Games I USED to play |
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Life
in the Bluff
This game is run by Andy (aka Agamenmon) on the ROLEPLAY
on-line site. It is a game starting at 5th level, based in the
city of Raven's Bluff. I'm playing a low level version of Sondirra
(the character I developed for the high level Tomb of Bloodstone game
that died prematurely).
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Gateworld
This game was run by Dan Fite -
who still plays as Cleo in my Northern Journey PBeM game. I originally
joined as a lurker, then temporarily took over an NPC named Jackson
"Warlord" Williams - a US Marine from the 2020 era. This
was the game intro: "Welcome to GateWorld. Leave behind all
you thought you knew of reality, and enter a place where time and
space have come together… You open your eyes to behold a world turned
upside down. Your friends and loved ones are no where to be found,
and all around you is a crazy mix of men and women from every imaginable
time period and continent of Earth. Even worse, they are all in chains…
and so are you! Belatedly, you realize that you are chained to the
wall of some dark, damp dungeon! NOW you are really worried…"
- Sadly, this game died the death of the DM being over-worked,
under paid and suffering problems in his personal life...
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Tomb
of Bloodstone
This game was started as a high-level game
to run through the old classic module, H4-Tomb of Bloodstone. Sadly,
the DM, namely Malcolm Green (who had been playing a character in
my Northern Journey PBeM campaign), dropped out just after everyone
had introduced their characters and started the game. Another DM was
found, who continued the game for a short while, then gave up because
it was too much trouble... Otherwise it was a good game...
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When
Worlds Colide (Mk I)
This was the first incarnation of a game run by Steven
Bailey - who also plays a character (Yvandel) in my Northern
Journey Campaign. I used to play Deethan and Keld (a pair of characters
boosted from my Night Hawk game above. Sadly, his style of play -
with gritty realism and too many house rules combined with too much
defeat caused almost all of his players to abandon the game and it
fell apart.
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When Worlds Collide (Mk II)
This was the second incarnation of Steve's game with
new players apart from me. I played a new character, a Goliath named
Elgath, and it stared at a lower level. Sadly, he gave it up after
a disagreement with the players over the rules IIRC. (Both incarnations
were played on Yahoo Groups)
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Hellstone
Deep
This game was run by Martin - who
used to play in the Shadow of the Old Empire's game above. This game
was essentially a straightforward module, and was a high powered game,
with the party members all starting at 20th level. It was also played
on the ROLEPLAY on-line forum. My pages
here contain a game history and a few other miscellaneous bits of
information relative to my character Sondirra - a halfling rogue.
Sadly, this game also died - barely before the 1st scene had been
played out.
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