ADnD: Temple of Elemental Evil Recruiting 4/6

[Raganui Minamoto]

Well, I was told to put up a recruiting thread to see what I could snag, so here it is.

We're starting at first level, there is an ADnD sheet on Myth-Weavers you can use, and it'll be a fun time.

Now, I'm going to ask the players who want to join a few questions at this point. Do you guys want to use the original 3d6, put where they drop (first roll in str, 2nd in dex, 3rd in con, on down), 4d6 (drop lowest) put where they drop, or 4d6 6 times?

The first one is how 2e is suppose to be done, 2nd way is a medium, and 3rd is 3.5. Please note that in ADnD, while stats are useful, they aren't as 'OMG NEED' as in 3.5. I've seen a perfectly good fighter with 10 in strength.

If you don't have a book, then I will help with character creation. Or Carth if he joins and wants to. Try to add me to MSN (chocy_mog@hotmail.com), or Skype (Raganui), if you can to speed up creation... well, if we're on. I prefer real time chatting over PMs cause I have found some questions don't get asked over PMs and players will just go 'well, this doesn't seem like a big deal, so I'll just mark this' which can later cause problems.

I WILL be using non-weapon proficiencies and combat styles from Fighter's Handbook.

Restricted: Oriental Adventures - their martial arts are just plain rape in non-Oriental Adventures.  

[KamikaziFreak]

I've always been a fan, in low-power 3.0 games, of rolling 3d6 6 times, and assigning in order. Then, re-roll any one and then swap any two scores. This rarely produces unplayable results even in 3/3.5, so if stats matter less, we might even be able to do without the re-roll. So you just roll 6 times to get str dex con int wis cha, then if you got a high wis but not a high str, you could swap those two, but not change anything else.  

[Raganui Minamoto]

That sounds interesting.  

[KamikaziFreak]

I like that it gives you a little flexibility, but not a lot. If you say "I want a fighter" and you roll a 4 for strength, you can swap it with some other stat and still be ok. I was testing out using 4d6, re-roll one, swap a pair, as a potential method to use for a low-level game if I decided to try to run one here. I was able to roll stats for 22 characters, 2 of each class, picking the class before rolling stats, and all were reasonably good.  

[Arc Vembris]

I grew up on drop 'em where they lay. I can do it, but it's led to plenty of borked-up characters in my history. Especially if my high stat is charisma (worthless in 2e)  

[Raganui Minamoto]

2... and neither one Carth or Plainsfox... this is surprising.  

[Mackie the Knife]

Just for clarification: this is AD&D 2e?  

[Arc Vembris]

Mackie the Knife

Just for clarification: this is AD&D 2e?

Yes, he specified such in the other topic  

[Mackie the Knife]

Arc Vembris

Mackie the Knife

Just for clarification: this is AD&D 2e?

Yes, he specified such in the other topic

I didn't see another Temple of Elemental Evil thread.  

[Raganui Minamoto]

Eh, it was the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons thread... and yes, this is 2e.  

[Deadusernamelol]

I'm suppose to post in this thread? Fine fine, I'll be the third.

 

[Mackie the Knife]

I'll give it a try. Let me just pull out my books here...  

[Raganui Minamoto]

Holy crap... I actually have 4?!

Ok, so, then... which stat type?  

[Mackie the Knife]

My preference has always been for Method V: roll 4d6, drop the lowest, and assign the scores as you wish.

Is the Thief's handbook allowed?  

[Raganui Minamoto]

I have it.

I should also note that for this, I will not do any 'create your own class' things.