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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:53 pm Post subject: D&D Adventures |
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Hey 4E players, or the 4E curious!
Jeff has been cool enough to get the kits, and asked me about my GM interest. So I'll be running the new official "D&D Adventures" on Wednesdays starting March 17th. See the WotC site for details, and I'll post more later from home. The gist is that you play in a series of ~ 2 hr Wednesday sessions (and only Wed for some reason). Players gain unique in-game benefit cards, and there's hints at cool goodies for GM and players. Characters are Living Forgotten Realms compatible, and the adventure begins as a 1st level foray into Waterdeep's Undermountain!
Players are not required to play steady, week to week. The format will be such that you could miss and come back later. Steady IS still better of course.
Personally, this seems like a neat concept to try out. And I'd like to see what 4E steady interest can be drummed up, perhaps with a future Eberron or Dark Sun campaign in mind. 
Please post your interest here!
Thx,
Dale
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Info on Character Creation, and some general info
http://community.wizards.com/dungeonsanddragons/blog/2010/03/09/damp;d_encounters_qamp;a!_character_gen_clarified!
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 04:58 PM PST [Dungeons & Dragons]
Posted By: WotC_Tulach
D&D Encounters: Answers to Your Questions!
Many questions have been asked about D&D Encounters program specifics over the past weeks, and with the season’s launch imminent, I’d like to address some of them here. If you have more questions, want to leave feedback, or would like to share your experiences, head to the official D&D Encounters forum accessible to all community members.
Q. I understand that for this season of D&D Encounters, I can create my own 1st-level character or use a pre-generated one included. What are the rules for creating my own character?
A. The rules are pretty simple. To create your own 1st-level character, follow all the instructions listed in the Player’s Handbook. You can select rules options from any player resource for your character, including the Player’s Handbook series, the Power series, the Player’s Guides, the Adventurer’s Vault series, and Dragon Magazine content. You can choose any race that’s received a full “PC race” write-up in any player book or source. So, for example, shadar-kai is OK, since it received a full write-up in Dragon, but kobold isn’t, since it hasn’t received that treatment. You start play with 100 gold (as normal). You might want to consider making your character fit in with the world of the Forgotten Realms, but that’s not a requirement.
Q. It seems that this season, you can create a character and then export it into Living Forgotten Realms. How does that work?
A. At the end of the season, you can take your D&D Encounters: Undermountain character and play the character with all the accumulated XP and treasure you’ve earned in Living Forgotten Realms. When you finish the season, simply ensure that your character conforms to the most current rules for that campaign, found here.
Q. Can I have multiple characters? What happens if I want to play a new character?
A. You can certainly create more than one character for D&D Encounters, although you’ll probably want to play just one for most or all of the season. Since characters won’t advance too far in the season, you’ll start each character at 1st level with 0 experience points and track each character’s XP, gold, and treasure gained separately. Your Renown Points are earned as a player, not as a character though – so you’ll keep accumulating all your Renown Points earned each week.
Q. Can I use RPGA Rewards cards at the table?
A. No. The D&D Encounters play program has its own rewards offered that can be used when you earn them.
Q. Tell me more about Renown Points. How do you earn them?
A. Renown Points are a way to track your accomplishments with your character in-game and activities you’re engaged in outside of the game. Each session, you’ll earn a few points for completing an encounter (the primary way that you earn points). You can also earn points for hitting a milestone (which should happen roughly every 2 play sessions). All the other Renown Point awards are once per season – meaning once you’ve checked off that accomplishment, you’ll earn the listed number of points, and you can’t earn that award again during the season. Examples of in-game accomplishments include hitting a single enemy for 15+ damage in one attack, reviving a dying adventurer ally, and taking 50 points of enemy damage in a single session. Examples of out-of-game accomplishments include creating a character using the Character Builder, creating a character with a Player’s Handbook 3 feat, and creating a character with a Player’s Handbook 3 class or race. Most of these awards can be earned at any point during the season, but once you’ve earned them, you’ve received that award and cannot receive it again. On average, a player can expect to earn about 3-7 points per session, but you could earn over 10 points in one session if you engage in a bunch of the Renown Point accomplishments at one time!
Q. What do you get for your Renown Points?
A. We have a few different D&D Encounters Rewards cards in this season’s kit. In order to receive the first card, called the Delver Award, you need to earn 10 Renown Points. After the session in which you earn your first reward, you’ll be presented with this card. The next two levels of rewards – the Explorer Award and the Adventurer Award – are given out at the end of the season. You can qualify for those rewards by earning 30 and 50 Renown Points, respectively. There are only a limited number of those Rewards cards in the kit, so your organizer will have details on how those cards will be awarded at the conclusion of the season.
Q. I saw that you’ll be using social networking tools to “enhance” the play experience. What does that mean?
A. We will be using Facebook, the Wizards Community site, and Twitter to make the Wednesday game experience even more special. Here’s how.
Facebook: On Tuesdays, we’ll be posting little reminders of the next day’s session, sometimes including a little teaser information. On Thursdays, we’ll let you know to head to the Wizards Community site for a recap of the past day’s action.
Wizards Community Site: Through the D&D Community page and official D&D Encounters forum, you’ll be able to chat about what happened this week, talk in-character about the session, and share your feedback and experiences!
Twitter: Follow @Wizards_DnD on Twitter, bring your mobile device to the table, and see what comes up during your game session! Each hour, there’ll be a new tweet that might change what happens at the game table – perhaps giving you an in-game benefit or altering the environment in some way. You’ll know that the tweet is for D&D Encounters by its hashtag - #dndenc. Undermountain is a crazy and wild place – you never know what strange, latent magics still lurk in the mad mage Halaster’s creation!
Come join your local game store on Wednesday nights beginning on March 17 for a new way adventure each week – one encounter at a time!
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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Some further Character advice from the DM:
- Make them Forgotten Realms friendly (and LFR compatible) if possible. If you don't know what that means, no worries, we can talk over your concept.
- Races I don't like for this world: Kalashtar, Warforged, Wilden, Crystalminds. The rest I can more easily work with.
- Use the DDI Character Builder if you can. It's up to date save for PHB3 (not til April), and it's great!
Post any questions here. I go to get a look at the packet this evening!
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Note on Characters:
There are 6 pregens from WotC, and I'll make another 6. So if you're new to the game, there's plenty to choose from and they are EASY to pick up.
-D
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Hey -does anyone have a way to print characters out of the DDI Character Builder?
I have no printer at home, there's no way to save as PDF or jpeg, and I can't load their software to print here at work...
I have 6 characters to print for Wed, at about 3-4 pages each.
thx,
Dale
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| Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Reminder - 1st Encounter tonight! Put the Guinness down and play some D&D ! (We can always drink the stuff later!)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks to V and Mike for playing...we resume next Wed at 7PM
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Since all this nasty slush is going to freeze, *and* there's more snow forecast this evening, I'm canceling the D&D for tonight.
We will resume next week.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Apologies...just now seeing the roads in town since this AM, I guess we could have played anyways. I'm surprised so much snow could vanish so quickly!
Probably too late to double back though... on to next week!
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| I'll play. I am human male warlock. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Play is still on for tonight, 7PM - the more, the merrier!
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| Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Reminder to anyone listening: I'm back in town, so we're taking another run at this on Wednesday the 21st. I had 2 folks one week, and 2 different folks the other week, so if we can get all 4 together this week, we have a group! I'll also post a flyer in the store this evening.
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REMINDER:
I'll be trying again tonight at 7PM to host a group. 3 players is okay, 4 players is best. No prior experience needed!
Thx,
Dale
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