Char Creation, Death, Trading & Purchasing

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MAJOR EDIT : I have included the Starting Level in Red, and it will be updated as the Party progresses. Starting Items have also been changed. Many altered Items have been bolded

In view there's been a few Changes along the way, this should help as a complete Update.

CHARACTER SHEET

Starting Level :13
Ability Scores : Point Buy (22 point)
Alignment : restricted to Lawful Good, Good, Unaligned on the Adventure Sheet. Actual Alignment may differ but DM to be informed on Character Creation.

Character Creation Notes
- Material from Anything published by WotC, including Dragon Magazine is acceptable.
- Themes are not allowed, although Backgrounds are.
- Mounts are not allowed, and no Mount-related combat feats are allowed.
- For purpose of the game, you do not have to keep track of mundane Ammunition, Provisions, Encumbrance, nor time since last Extended Rest for purpose of Fatigue
- All things (especially Dragon Magazine) subject to review. ie. You don't have to ask the DM before taking it, but depending on what comes up the DM may ask for more details and/or to change accordingly.
- Unbound Ruleset is available for use at unbound4e.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general

Races
- For Roleplaying Purposes, you are still restricted to following Races : Human, Dwarf, Elf, Half-Elf, Eladrin, Halfling, Dragonborn, Tiefling, Half-Orc
- Mechanically (on your Character Sheet), you can take any of the Races that are published
- However, you can take +2 Stats in any 2 Stats you wish if you're not a Human
- Humans can give up their extra Featslot and +1 to NADs to gain a +2 in any Stat other than the first +2
- All Races start with Low Light Vision and no Darkvision. This applies to "Drow" as well.
- Warforged Resilience to be replaced by following wording : "You have a +2 racial bonus to death saving throws and saving throws against ongoing damage."

Starting Consumables
- 1 Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds (Lv 10) per Character (for free).
- The Party will generally have opportunity to get Mundane Items, including consumables, ammo and magical containers
- The Party will generally not have chance to get Magical Consumables eg. Frost Whetstones etc

Equipment (for New Players only)
- You start with 1 Item of Starting-Level - 1, Starting Level, and Starting Level + 1. You can choose lower level items if you wish.
- You also start with Gold equal to an Item of your Level - 1.
- ie currently New Characters start at Level 13, then you would start with Level 12, Level 13, Level 14 Item and 13,000 Gp (the value of a Level 12 Item)
- In total, your Character may start with up to 5 magical items, including Alternative Rewards.
- Note that Alternative Rewards cannot be bought, cannot be sold, but can be awarded in the course of an Adventure.
- Your Character may have Max 1 Rare Item at any 1 Time
- No Items of 0 Gp value are allowed in the Game
- Your Character may not start with any Magical Container (eg. Bag of Holding)
- All Mundane items / Adventuring gear from all the Books are available

Custom Magic Items
- If you wish to have a Custom Magic Item, please run the idea by the DM and best is to provide supporting existing Items for Reference.
- this Item will be treated as a Rare Item.
- If approved, the DM will decide the "category" (Weapon, Armor, Neck, etc) and level.
- All such Custom Items are subject to "recall" or "revision" when deemed necessary.
- Each Character is limited to only One such requested Custom Magic Item. Custom Items awarded by the DM during the course of the Campaign does not count to this restriction.

Rules, Updates
- The latest rules updates from the WotC D&D website is in effect
- Note that all "Expertise" in PHB1-3 gives +2 at 11th level and +3 at 21st level, instead of 15th level and 25th level. This includes Versatile Expertise (PHB3)
- If not stated for an encounter, Enemies reduced to 0 HP are presumed killed
- if not stated for an encounter, any unconsumed Item that exchanges hands between 2 Party members during an encounter is assumed to return back to its original Owner (as per Char Sheet)
- Resurrection (Warpriest Lv 8 Daily) and Restore Life (Sentinel Lv 8 Daily) both take half the component cost of a normal Raise Dead
- XP Awarded will NOT be based on number of Kills / Creatures Defeated. Causing Enemies to flee count as well.
- Extra XP may be awarded for an Encounter well/efficiently dealt with.

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FOR EXISTING CHARACTERS
For existing Players, please take note of following, especially pertaining to Reserve Characters in case your Character Dies.

Character Resets
- Resets are classified as a change of Character Class, or of a Character's Subclass (eg. from Ranger to Hunter, from Arcanist to Mage)
- Character Resets are subject to DM Approval, but feel free to discuss.
- If a Player feels he is not enjoying his Character, he can discuss with the DM how to address.

Tweaks
- You can tweak your Character Race, Feats, just let the DM know at the start of the session.
- Generally speaking you should not be tweaking your Character every session.
- If it seems too much, then your Tweaks will be allowed based on Retraining rules (ie when you level up)

Stats
- Stat changes are considered major and should be subject to DM review, though it is not as impactful as a full Reset. Please provide Before & After for approval.
- As the party nears level 8, most of the Party has been benefiting from a +5 to their highest stat since level 4.
- For such Players, when you create a Reserve Character or Reset / Re-Stat your Character, it should still have a +5 to highest Stat from level 4 onwards.
- This is to discourage "gaming" of the +1 Stat bonus at level 8, by tweaking the highest Stat down from 17 to 16 to take advantage of it.

Carrying Forward Items and Gold
- From the Party Magic Items thread, the number of Magic Items awarded to each Player has been tracked.
- When you create a Reserve Character, you can take all of the Magic Items awarded based on level, and substitute in the appropriate Items for your Reserve Character.
- If you substitute in a lower level item, please take note of the original Item Level
- You carry forward your previous Characters Gold, except subject to Options under Character Death

Item Swapping
When you create a Reserve Character, in view you have high level items (eg. Lv 8-10 Items), you may wish to "swap" out some of your starting Lv 3,4,5 and below items.
- as of Session 2.4, you can swap out 1 such Item. So you must start with at least Two +1 Items.
- as of Session 4.3, you have opportunity to trade out another such Item.
- as of Session 7.5, you have opportunity to trade out another such item. So you are no longer restricted to start with any +1 Item.
- This Item Swapping will be revised from time-to-time as the Campaign advances.

Character Death & Reserve Characters
- If your Character dies, you do not gain the XP and Gold from the Encounter in which he died.
- If your Character Dies, and you wish to reuse the Same Character, your Character has to bear the cost of the Raise Dead (typically 600 Gp is if an NPC Ritualist, and 500 Gp if Party Ritualist)
- Your Party members still have to retrieve some of your "Remains" for the Raise Dead Ritual
- As per standard rules, you take -1 to all d20 rolls until 3 Milestones and/or Extended Rests

- Generally speaking, Reserve Characters should not be of the same Class as the Main Character.
- While your Main Character is Dead and you are waiting for a Raise Dead, you can play your Reserve Character with the same restrictions (-500 to 600 Gp and -1 to all d20 rolls). The Milestones and Extended Rests undergone by your Reserve Character will apply to your Main Character as/when he is Raised.
- Even if you have no intention to raise your Main Character, you can take the necessary Raise Dead Penalties (-500 to 600 Gp and -1 to all d20 rolls) so your Reserve Character starts from the same XP as your slain Character.
- If you do not wish to take the Raise Dead Penalties, your Reserve Character starts at the same level and XP as a New Character (as per Campaign Log)

- So basically when you die, you weigh the costs losing Experience Earned against the cost of (500 to 600) Gp with -1 to all d20 rolls until 3 milestones/ERs
- If you do not have enough Gold (likely when Paragon and Raise Dead is 5,000 to 6,000 Gp), you can lose an item to offset the cost, and balance Gold to be added back to you.

Ongoing Campaign
- Every Character, Reserve or Otherwise, is treated as having been with the Party since Session 0.1
- The only exceptions are if it is somehow storyline related.
- DM will provide Players with information where necessary of past events. The Campaign Log can also serve as a handy reference.

TOTAL PARTY KILL (TPK)

- A TPK may be fatal or non-fatal. A non-fatal TPK typically results in Characters being captured, unconscious, etc, and the story can still continue with severe setbacks. Likewise if there are "Survivors"
- A TPK may be fatal, where the party is defeated by an Enemy that has absolutely no interest in the Characters being alive.
- In this case, the Campaign "starts" afresh, in the same setting (or different, up to you guys), but definitely a different arc. You retain all the benefits that you have accrued so far in the game, subject to above-mentioned Character Death Rules that govern your Losses.

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And Setting Information, for those who have never seen it before

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Clarified that Themes are not allowed, although Backgrounds are.

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Due to the party's progress where most current Party Members are about Lvl 10, I've relaxed the Character Creation Rules so that there is a chance to get more +2 Items, at the cost of Gold, and you start with more Gold (equal to your starting level, instead of 1 less than your starting Level).

For Reserve Characters, there is also no more restriction of starting with one +1 Item.

The changes have been made in Bold to the Topic.

Existing "New" Characters such as Ragath, Alicast, Morrkhan, Faye/Keira can be re-created based on these new options. If not, they all get a 800 Gp "top-up" to their Gold Balance ( the difference between Level 7 Item 2600 Gp and Level 8 Item 3400 Gp), which will be captured under the next update of Goldtrack.

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XP Notes :

As the adventure proceeds, the XP gap between the Party and New Players widen.
To try and mitigate this without having to revise XP too far back, will be tracking this approach.

a) Party Level is treated as the Level (not XP) of the 3rd highest Character (whether AFK or not)
b) If a Player that comes for a session is more than 2 levels below Party Level, he gains double XP. After that he gains XP normally.
c) When the New Char XP falls below (Party Level - 3), it is immediately bumped up to (Party Level - 3) instead.

For 8.1, Alex(Alex) the charging Thief affected by this ruling bringing him up to Level 9, whereafter the double XP does not apply to him. His XP will be revised upwards accordingly.

Those that attended 9.0 will also be affected by this.

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Item Notes:

Added restriction of 1 Rare, and Player-Custom Items are considered as Rare Items.
No item of 0 Gp value are allowed in the Game.

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Item Notes
Major Update to change to standard Item distribution.
Makes it easier for new people to join in.

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Update to Rare & Alternative Items
- You can equip a maximum of 3 "Slotless" items, ie Wondrous Items, Boons.
- You can have more, but you have to select a default "equip" and swap around in battle.

For more details
unboundgames.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=97

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I've removed the topic for the Purchasing Items under House Rules
To keep it simpler, perhaps this might help, and applies while you're in Shian City.

Purchasing Common Items
- You can purchase any Common Item that is of your Level or lower.
- This includes Consumables

Purchasing Uncommon Items
- There'll be no more Search for Uncommon Items / Consumables.
- You can try and find Uncommon Items / Consumables of Level 10 and below. To do so, you have to Whatsapp or Email me what you're looking for.
- Uncommon Items / Consumables may be subject to increased prices due to being harder to find.
- Uncommon Consumables will generally be very limited in number.

Enchanting Items
- Treat the Party Ritualist as if he were of the Party Level (ie Level 15 as of 14.0). If you are higher level than the Party Ritualist, you can use your own Level instead
- Remember that only Common items can be enchanted from mundane items.
- Treat your gold as if it were Residuum.

Duplicate Restrictions
Because there's no encumbrance etc, the following should suffice
- You cannot have any duplicate Uncommon Item
- You cannot have more than 5 of the same Common Item
- You cannot have more than 5 of the same Uncommon Consumable
- You cannot carry more than 20 Consumables altogether

Selling Items
As per usual
- 20% item value for a Common Item when you sell
- 50% item value for an Uncommon Item you sell
- 50% item value for Common / Uncommon Item you sell that is above Lv 16
- 100% item value for a Rare Item you sell

Certain Item Restrictions
- You cannot sell Boons, Alternative Rewards, etc and anything that doesn't make sense, eg. Tattoo
- You cannot sell Custom Items and DM-Custom Items
- You can buy Uncommon Boons, Alternative Rewards, Tattoos
- There are no Rare items available for sale

Edit : bolded line on Boons, Alternative Rewards has been edited.

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Here's the price list for Uncommon Items & Consumables.

Uncommon Items Lv 6-10 : 50% extra
Uncommon Items Lv 1-5 : 25% extra cost

Uncommon Consumables Lv 1-10 : 25% extra cost
Note that numbers are still limited, so please check with me if you intend to purchase more than 1 Consumable.

If in the odd case that you bought any Uncommon for more than the above cost, it is reduced to the above cost.

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And here's a new one that people have been waiting for.
After some consideration, decided to make the following available.

Uncommon Alternative Rewards (Boons for short) Lv 1-10 : 50% extra cost

Boons cannot be sold, and obviously you can't have more than 1 Boon of the same kind.

Since Uncommon Boons are purchaseable, instead of previous where you could buy more than 3 Alternative Rewards / Boons / Wondrous Items and swap them around, now you are limited to a max of 3 Alternative Rewards / Boons / Wondrous Items.

Those who previously used their awarded items for Boons can "retcon" their purchasing decision in the face of above.

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Since the party is generally Level 20 or higher, here are some changes

Uncommon Items Lv 11-20 : 50% extra cost
Uncommon Items Lv 1-10 : 25% extra cost
Boons Lv 1-10: 50% extra cost.
Not Available: Rare Items, Boons above Level 10, Items above Level 20.

Uncommon Consumables Lv 1-20 : 25% extra cost
Note that numbers are still limited, so please check with me if you intend to purchase more than 1 Consumable.

Previously purchased at higher prices are not refunded.

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Quinn's Connection

Please be reminded that while not in Civilised Areas, you cannot purchase items normally.
If you wish to purchase an item, it takes a 10-minute Ritual and Quinn's player must be present. The Ritual itself costs 140 Gp (you can assume Ritual caster is present).

If your purchase is successful, an extra 10% (of the base price) surcharge is levied and goes straight to Quinn. No character can claim back this amount from Quinn, and this item cannot be given back to Quinn.
For Quinn's own purchases, Quinn does not have to pay 10% but he may not pass the item to anyone else.

For Common Consumables, this automatically succeeds, to a max of 5 Consumables per Arc (when the Campaign main number changes) for the whole party.
For Uncommon Consumables and Common Items, this requires a 11+ to succeed.
For Uncommon Items, this requires a 16+ to succeed.

If you fail to procure an item in this way, you cannot try again until either you gain a Level or the party enters a Civilised Area.

Boons cannot be purchased in this fashion.

Retcon
For items already previously bought and allowed by the GM, it will cost no extra Gp but Quinn will get 10% for items bought after the end of the Drow Arc.
As far as I recall, this only applies to some Potions and 3 recent items bought by Sylvannas, Argon, Hadarai.
(Varius has rescinded his Purchase)

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I understand that with the Epic Loot preplanned out, some of you who missed the late Paragon Arc are short of some Level 16-20 items.

To help you "upgrade" the slots more easily with Gold, any Common/Uncommon Items that is above Level 16 can now be sold for 50% of its Item Value.

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As of post 19.2, you can purchase Rare Items up to level 10, inclusive boons.

All Rare items are at +100% surcharge, ie double the cost.
You are still limited by the Max No of 3 Rares per player, including Combined Items and Player Requested Custom Items.
As usual, you can only have one specific Rare per char.