The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Reference and Links
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				Title: <strong>The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Reference and Links</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HannibalBarca</strong> on <strong>13-01-2018, 02:41:34</strong>
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				Herein find necessary gaming and reference links to AD&amp;D materials and lore for The Chosen of Greyhawk.<br><br><hr><br><span style="font-size: 24pt;" class="bbc_size">Game Threads</span><br><br><br>The Chosen of Greyhawk -- OOC (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=281308.msg13831366#msg13831366) -- For the fun chatty stuff and general news on the game.<br><br>The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Approved Characters (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=281310.msg13831375#msg13831375)<br><br>The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Reference and Links (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=281309.msg13831372#msg13831372) -- for all the goodies and bits like maps and links to all things AD&amp;D and Greyhawk--you're here right now!<br><br>The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Primary RP Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=281313.msg13831677#msg13831677) -- This will be where the main RP takes place.&nbsp; I won't begin the RP until my first post to this, so we have lots of time to work on necessary things.<br><br>The Chosen of Greyhawk -- History Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=281378.msg13834476#msg13834476) -- Place to post more backstory, whether written by one of you, or RP'ed out by two or more.<br><br>The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Sex n Stuff Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=282869.0) -- All sexiness and smuttiness will take place here, if it is not involved in the main plot under the primary game thread.<br><br><hr><br><span style="font-size: 24pt;" class="bbc_size">Reference Links</span><br><br><br>Current Map of the Flanaess (http://www.gotbowie.com/arps/old_wogmap/)<br><br>This map is current, as of Patchwall 7th, 577 CY, and the first world map that will be used in-game.<br><br>The most detailed interactive map of the Flanaess you'll ever need. (http://ghmaps.net/onlinemap/onlinemap.html)<br><br>The village of Beratana is in the place marked as 'Lockswell's Manor' on the map, in the Gnarley Forest, along Yarpick Creek.&nbsp; The Idle Boar Inn is on the Western side of the Selintan, near the village of Two Ford.&nbsp; The rest of the map, however, depicts the game world a bit on from the start of the game.<br><br>A brief description of the nations of the Flanaess (https://greyhawk-fate-of-the-kingdom.obsidianportal.com/wikis/nations-of-flanaess)<br><br>This is a virtual word-for-word description from the boxed set of The World of Greyhawk, and includes nations, rulers, populations, a brief history, some economic data, and relations with neighbor countries.<br><br>List of Deities in the Flanaess (https://metzger.obsidianportal.com/wikis/greyhawk-deities-master-list)<br><br>As supplied by National Acrobat, a valuable list of the deities of the world of Oerth.<br><br>The Calendar of the Flanaess (http://www.greyhawkonline.com/canonfire/greyhawk_calendar.pdf)<br><br>Days of the week, months, festivals, and days of worship for various deities of the game world.
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Reference and Links</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HannibalBarca</strong> on <strong>13-01-2018, 17:49:51</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 24pt;" class="bbc_size">Armor: Classes and Types</span><br><br><br>Armor chart for this era and world:<br><br>10 -- no armor or simple clothing<br>9 -- shield only<br>8 -- leather armor or padded armor (gambeson)<br>7 -- leather/padded + shield, or studded leather<br>6 -- studded leather + shield, or brigandine<br>5 -- brigandine + shield, or chainmail<br>4 -- chainmail + shield, or scale armor<br>3 -- scale armor + shield, or platemail<br>2 -- platemail + shield<br><br>These are the only varieties of armor in the game, although they may come in enchanted or magical varieties as well.&nbsp; <br><br>A gambeson is a padded jacket, quilted and well-fitting, and was worn beneath a chain hauberk or heavier armor in medieval times.&nbsp; As armor wasn't worn except when going into combat or ceremonial duties, knights, men-at-arms, and others who served as warriors would often wear a gambeson as normal clothing<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/e/e2/Gambeson-medieval-underarmour-combat-padding.jpg/399px-Gambeson-medieval-underarmour-combat-padding.jpg)<br><br>Leather armor is not much different than a leather jacket of today, still supple enough for rogues and spellcasters to move around in, and often padded but not quilted like a gambeson.<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/2/26/Thieves_guild_armor.png/744px-Thieves_guild_armor.png)<br><br>Studded leather is any <em>cuir bouillli</em>--leather treated in boiling oil to stiffen it--sometimes reinforced with metal rivets or studs.&nbsp; Although not really a separate class of armor to itself in reality, it takes up a spot here or we'd have no straight AC 7 :P<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/6/6f/Warlord-leather-armor-black--mw-302281-1.jpg/442px-Warlord-leather-armor-black--mw-302281-1.jpg)<br><br>Brigandine is specific to certain regions or social/ethnic groups in the world, tending to be found more in the west.&nbsp; It tends to be a leather jerkin with thin metal plates sewn or riveted on.&nbsp; The plates are not anywhere near the thickness of, say, plate mail segments, and it's a cheaper but effective armor for warriors who haven't got the money for chainmail.<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/3/3c/Brigandine.png/366px-Brigandine.png)<br><br>Chainmail is ubiquitous and found all over the world, in human as well as non-human peoples.&nbsp; It represents the pinnacle of armor for most warriors in the world.&nbsp; At the level of technology and the relatively low populations, there simply aren't enough armorers to make significant numbers of chain hauberks, so an entire army outfitted in chain would be both very expensive and very rare.&nbsp; A chainmail hauberk was almost always worn over a gambeson or something similar depending on the culture, and similarly, a chainmail coif, or head covering, was also worn over a padded head covering.&nbsp; Chain rings could be driven into the skin of a wearer by a weapon, and the armor was never worn directly against the skin.<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a1/Riveted-chainmail.jpg)(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/e/e9/293603474.jpg/302px-293603474.jpg)<br><br>Scale armor, though, is much rarer, as it is often magical, or at least made of the scales of some rare beast, or the scale armor made of normal metal like iron or steel is specific to certain cultures.<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/0/02/H01-18.jpg/450px-H01-18.jpg)<br><br>Plate mail is both rare and extremely expensive, and fitted to its owner...often passed down and refitted to children of a former owner.<br><br>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/a/a7/642057463752351a39def141b18a7db4.jpg/368px-642057463752351a39def141b18a7db4.jpg)<br><br>So plate mail would consist of underclothes, a gambeson, a chain hauberk, and then strategically-placed plate segments such as a breastplate, greaves, pauldrons, and gauntlets.&nbsp; Overall a lot of weight, and only for the most physically fit and wealthy/successful warriors of the world.&nbsp; Of all the races in the world, dwarven warriors tend to be found most often in plate mail.
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				Title: <strong>Re: The Chosen of Greyhawk -- Reference and Links</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>HannibalBarca</strong> on <strong>15-01-2018, 19:21:07</strong>
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				<span style="font-size: 24pt;" class="bbc_size">Spellpoints</span><br><br><br>Yes, spellpoints, not memorized spells needing to be re-read every time.&nbsp; I always hated that convention in D&amp;D.&nbsp; As intelligent as wizards are, it is a clunky game mechanic.&nbsp; I go with arcane magic being a natural resource, drawn by careful manipulation between both the positive and negative energy planes, and the mage themselves...so it is something akin to electricity--thus very tricky to manage, and very dangerous.&nbsp; For clerics and their ilk, they are able to draw on more and more divine power from their deity as they go up in levels.&nbsp; The act of creating an arcane spell is something like weaving on a loom, but doing it inside your mind's eye...the more complex the spell, the more threads or knots or such required in the weaving.&nbsp; Divine spells are simpler, but more an act of willpower and faith.&nbsp; <br><br>Everyone has natural magic power in them, but nowhere near enough to create spells at the energy level beyond cantrips...this is why all spellcasters get to cast an unlimited number of cantrips, one per round, without exhausting their spellpoints.<br><br>Bonus spellpoints come from higher intelligence for mages and their subclasses, and from wisdom for clerics and their subclasses.&nbsp; Use the following chart:<br><br>Ability score&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bonus Spellpoints<br>13&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;+1<br>14&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;+2<br>15&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;+4 (once character can cast level 2 spells and above)<br>16&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;+6 (once character can cast level 2 spells and above)<br>17&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;+9 (once character can cast level 3 spells and above)<br>18&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;+13 (once character can cast level 4 spells and above)<br><br>It's worked out this way so that, even with much higher intelligence or wisdom, a mage or cleric of 1st level doesn't start out with too many spellpoints.
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