Character Creation Updated!

I have updated the Character Creation page with the rules for the upcoming campaign, set to start in the near future (I hope).

We can do character creation collectively in a session zero, or we can arrange for some one-on-one creation sessions. Players’ call. Let me know what you want to do.

Ideally, however, you will have at least a class and race chosen before we sit down to actually create the characters.

Stay tuned to this page for more updates about Volara.

An Update

Well, well, well.  An update.  Who woulda thunk it?

This site, for those just joining me, hasn’t been updated in over two years, but here we go.

First, there is a new page in the histories talking about the rise of Kafre’en.  The page has the ever-so original name, The Rise of Kafre’en & The Modern Age. You can visit it from here, or you can get there via Damon’s History of the World if you haven’t read that far in the history yet.

Next, there are a few new names over on the Famous Names page.  You can read a little bit about Jälestus, the ruler of Gochanrall, or you can read about two new organizations: The Order of the Sulane & The Quilter’s Guild.

The first game will be this Saturday at 5:30.  I know I’m looking forward to it.  I will provide you each with some extra character info, and I hope to have the rest of the common knowledge up for the next game if it isn’t finished for this week.

Llafanwyr

I have added some new information about the country that the game will start in, Llafanwyr, along with its capital city, Te’ralyn.

You can find this information under the Llafanwyr link on the Geography page, or you can just go here.

There are also a few names and organizations you may not have seen on the Famous Names page, including a bit about the rulers of Llafanwyr.

Character Creation

Here’s a head’s up to let my players know that the character creation page now has everything you need to create a character for the upcoming campaign.

If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend familiarizing yourselves with the history, names, and geography pages a bit.  You don’t have to memorize, but a passing familiarity could expedite things.  Technically, a player can have a printed copy of the history as part of the character’s inventory (2 silvers).

I hope to have more world information up by tomorrow evening.

Players are also getting an e-mail with this information post.

Decision Made

Okay.

Having returned to Canada and having spoken with my core gaming group, I’ve made up my mind.

The Volara campaign will be in D&D 3.5e.

I’ve weighed the options for a while now, and I think that’s the best course to take for now.

While I still feel that GURPS would be a better system for what I want to do with the world in the long run, I also think that character creation would be a much more involved process than if we went 3.5.  By extension, there would be a lot more overall rules explanations that may get tiresome in the potentially short time we have (we may only have six weeks or so).

If Amanda and I do stay here past June, then the whole thing may become GURPS.

That said, I will be running a small Infinite Worlds side-game with GURPS, just to (re)familiarize myself (and any of the players who want to try it) with the system.  A and M said they’re in, so if we can find a workable day and time, others can join too.

One more note, partly in response to R’s last comment on the previous post, it’s unlikely that Volara will be 4e at any point in the next year or so.  This is not due to any particular dislike for that system, but rather because I feel that the available material will be too limited to support what I want to do with Volara.  I suspect this may change when PHB 2 comes out.

Finally, I hope to have the full character creation rules up by tomorrow evening, so keep your eyes peeled.  I will be sending an e-mail out to the group when that page has the information up.