4th Edition D&D Living Forgotten Realms "Kickoff to the Realms Mini-Con" Announcement!

[Josiah]

There's a nice, full-weekend-long RPGA Living Forgotten Realms event
going on from December 26th through December 28th, at Enchanted
Grounds in Highlands Ranch, organized by Rich Clark.

I'll be attending, and will be DM'ing several of the adventure
sessions there, as well as playing in a couple of them.


If anyone else is interested in participating or finding out the
details, you can get more information and/or contact the organizer
here: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/LFRatEG/message/6



(Joining the RPGA is both entirely free, and very easy. Go to
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/hq/newcomers for details.)



Once I have the exact schedule of which specific game sessions I'll be
running, I'll post that here, in case that matters to anyone.

[Josiah]

This was really, really fun.

[Chad]

Can you explain how this all works? I remember RPGA events from, er
1st edition, and the module included pre-made characters for the
players to use. Do they still do that? Or do we just make up one-off
brand new characters every time you play an RPGA event?

On Dec 30 2008, 11:21 am, Josiah <firesnakear...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This was really, really fun.

[Steve Watkins]

You can create your own PC.  Go to: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/news/lfrcharacters, to download the instructions for creating your PC.  From what I've heard, you fill out a card detailing your PC to be submitted.  Also, from what I've heard you can keep the same PC or start a new PC for other adventures.  Hopefully Josiah (and anyone else) can give more details.


Laters,
- Steve

[Shulusky, Stephen Randall]

Yeah, it's best just to follow the RPGA instructions.  The open beta Char Generator can create "legal" characters, but they should still be checked against the rules since certain things are disallowed and certain parts of the program don't do the math quite right just yet.

 

I didn't have to fill out a card for my PC, maybe they skipped that step, but I did have to fill out a membership application (basically a postcard).  At the back of the rules there are two sheets that need to be printed up that track your chars progress... I'm not totally sure what gets done with those.

 

 

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Subject: Re: 4th Edition D&D Living Forgotten Realms "Kickoff to the Realms Mini-Con" Announcement!

[Josiah]

It's pretty cool. You make your own character. (As many different
ones as you want, actually.) You have to use the creation rules in
the RPGA Character Creation Guide, but they're pretty unrestrictive.
Not much different at all from just making any other character.

Your characters are tracked in the RPGA's database, and you earn XP
and treasure with each adventure that you play with that character.
The DM of the session records all of the relevant information, and
reports it to the RPGA. So your characters build up over time, and
you can play in any Living Forgotten Realms adventure sessions,
anywhere where people are having sanctioned games.

You can play your character in any adventure which you meet the level
requirements for. The adventures are divided into level bands, ie
1-4, 4-7, 7-10, and so on. So if you have a character that falls into
the range of that particular adventure, you can play it. And you can
always make more level 1 characters and play them in the 1-4
adventures. You can only play each adventure once with each
particular character, but you can replay them with multiple
characters.

Tim and I have been playing a pair of human clerics of Tempus, and we
just reached third level, after playing in five adventures. We've
found a couple of magic items, we've got some gold, and we've begun
some quests which run the course of multiple adventures. You also get
what are called "story awards" which are based on the specific things
your character accomplishes or choices that you make during the
adventures, which will come into play later in the campaign, in future
adventures.

Each adventure is designed to be run in about four hours, though they
might go over by 30 minutes or an hour. They're self-contained and
episodic in nature, but there will be some ongoing storyline elements
and quests which span multiple adventures.

It's really quite cool. It lacks a lot of what makes a continuous
home campaign awesome, but it replaces that with incredible
convenience for DMs and players alike (especially DMs) and a lot of
flexibility and accessibility, because you can play in small chunks,
when and where you like, without having to be locked into a specific
group of players at a specific time, at a specific place, for a long
commitment of time.

-Josiah