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Welcome one and all to my Campaign Blog, which is completely seperate from my normal blog which can be found on my website ( http://rintaran.klaporte.com ). In this blog, I intend to follow the adventures of the characters in my campaigns. Eventually, these entries will be split up into categories based on the campaign that they're a part of, but as I'm only running one campaign at the moment, I'm going to put them all here.

On the evening of April 27th, my friends and I got together to begin to create characters for a campaign that will last atleast the summer. We met around 9:00pm to begin. I had hoped to be a player, but as none of them had any experience with 3E, I was "elected" the DM once again. So, a lot of the rules had to be explained during character creation (which took until about 1:30am and was still incomplete). Many, though not all, of my unique rules are being put into play (a copy of those rules can be found on my website). We decided to opt out of Sanity, and my Percieved/Actual alignment schemes because the players are all new.

Essentially, the following is the party:

Level 1 Female Elf Fighter Trait: Reckless Flaw: Weak Willed
Level 1 Female 1/2 Elf Rogue Trait: Suspicious Flaw: Shaky
Level 1 Male Human Sorceror Trait: Focussed Flaw: Vulnerable Familiar: Toad
Level 1 Male 1/2 Orc Boar Barbarian Trait: Yet to Choose Flaw: Yet to Choose
Level 1 Male Dwarf Paladin of Freedom Trait: Stout Flaw: Shaky

They seem to be looking for a campaign that's a little more combat heavy than I normally run, so I'm going to have to think hard about what I want to do. All the characters are either CG or CN (which works well).

I have yet to choose the starting location for this campaign, though I am tempted to put it on the south-western continent of my campaign world. Since there's a forest right next to the Great Plains, that allows for the boar barbarian to join the party. So, basically, my country choice is narrowed down to Geran, Lita, Voonland, Malinka, Balsha, Rovia, Balta, Rinchar, Gusvar, and Sheva (which is actually a significant narrowing) which are all forest/marsh countries both near an ocean and the Great Plains.

As a result of the campaign being in a different part of the world from usual, that means I have to create a lot of stuff from scratch, which means upcoming updates in the D&D section of my website.

Suggestions for campaign ideas are welcome at this point. The first session of gameplay will not be until May 11th, 2005 (because my parents are coming to visit). There will be an update with some basic information between now and then (hopefully).