Farinvor Rules

[Elanorîn]

General
I will mainly follow the 3.5 edition of the D&D rules as those are the books I have. If you want to use some fancy new class/race/spell/feat/whateveritis from books like The Complete Arcane or Complete Warrior you will be asked for copies of the relevant entries (unless I already happen to have it ) as I will need to know how it fits in. If I don't know what you're talking about, you can't do it. Some rules in the game are House Rules that I have, but they are few.

Resting and Spell preparations
For those classes who retrieve spells once a day this is on top of you racial need for rest. Humans need 8 hours for a full nights rest, Elves 4, Half-elves 6 everyone else sleep like Humans. A wizard needs an hour, bards and sorcerers 15 minutes, Cleric as long as it takes them to do a good proper prayer (at least 15 mins). So for a Human Wizard to rest and prepare: 9 hours is needed... etc

Combat
Once initiative is rolled it is important that you remember not to post beyond your round and that you do not take more action than you are allowed. The PHB runs through exactly what action demands how much of your round. A round is 6 seconds.

XP
Experience points will be awarded at the end of each Game-day (that is when all your characters finally lay down for some quality snoozing). It will be based on encounters and roleplaying.

XP penalty - If any nasties such as Metagaming, cheating and that kind of anti-funness emerges I won't hesitate. Regardless if that means the character in question falls out of balance with the others. We all wanna play fair now.

[Elanorîn]

ooc stuff
All rolls are to be included in the posts such as:

[Listen check: roll+modifier=result]

If there are things you want to keep private you can do so as long as you let me in on it! Rolls are usually done as shown above but if there are say letters and such you don't want to post openly you can send them to me by other means.

At least to start with i'd like to use CC's dice for the rolls. It keeps it even and fair and without arguments.

All ooc comments to be kept within square brackets [ ... ]

Edit: We have left CC dice behind. Roll your own and post.

[Elanorîn]

Game Pace

In the interest of keeping the game flowing I am enforcing a time limit on inactivity. I am setting this at 3 weeks. If a character has failed to post in that long without me having been notified of leave by msn, PM or otherwise that character will be controlled by me (NPC'd for a while and then may be excluded eventually unless the player returns to reclaim them).

Naturally this does not apply if you for some reason is kept from posting through being away etc but then I need to know so no misunderstanding happens.

[Elanorîn]

Intimidate

There is an alternative rule on Intimidate in the book Sword and Fist where Str can be added to the Intimidate roll instead of Cha where a successful display of Strenghth is made to back up the threat (with Str check). I have ruled that this can be used as an alternative to the usual Intimidate check.

[Elanorîn]

House Rules

Hit Dice - When leveling up, if you roll 25% or less of your maximum HD you may roll again. For example, The Ranger has a d8 Hit Dice, when he rolls for his extra hitpoints when he levels up he can roll again if he rolls a 1 or a 2.