Choose a Class.

Here is our Allowed Content. all content is in Play testing and that means the content could potentially be banned in the future, and DM’s can ban that specific content from being used in the games they run (In practice DM’s rarely do this however).

Choose a Race.

There is again more content allowed than just the PHB (see Allowed Content). There are also several homebrew classes available, which can be found in the allowed content document.

Determine your ability scores. You may take the

standard array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8) or use a point buy of 27, where max is 15, and min is 8, before racials, There is a nice point-buy calculator here which makes things easier.

Describe your character.

What is their background, their personality and ideals, their alignment? We shall never ask for such information in any official capacity - this is solely for you and your interactions throughout the world. Note that a character’s age is required to be at least the equivalent of a 16-year-old human. Different races age at different rates, but keep this in mind. A kobold character is for example, allowed to be 6 years old, as they reach adulthood at that age.

Select equipment.

This is usually determined by your character’s class and background. Alternatively, you may choose to roll for gold based on your class and buy equipment that way. Use the channel #character-creation-log to roll for gold, and use PHB prices to buy items in the channel #downtime-log. Once you roll you must use the result! Instructions are also listed in the pinned messages of the respective channels.

Determine the character’s health points.

For the first level, you do not take the average or roll, but gain the maximum of your hit die. For example: at 1st level a fighter with 12 Constitution will have 12 health points, and then on levels after one you have a choice of taking rolls, or average. Keep in mind that ‘average’ means, for example, 5 hp for a 1d8, and a 6 for a 1d10.

Select spells

(if applicable for your character’s class). A multiclass table regarding spells known, spells prepared and slots to cast them - along with all other multiclassing information can be found here.

Finishing up.

When you are finished, drag and drop your character into your google drive folder. then ask a Player Relations member to check your character sheet.

You may ask for a rework of your character, if under lvl 6. Please contact an admin for permission. This can only be done once per character.

Upon creating your character, and getting it approved find a game and have fun! Our community also boasts a fairly robust text RP section, with multiple channels. It is by no means necessary to participate in such, those so inclined are free to dive in - once a character is created.

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Working a skilled trade:

You can spend a number of DTP to have a character of yours earn gold by working a skilled trade, If you have the associated proficiency in an artisan’s tool or musical instrument, you may choose to use them while working a trade to earn extra Gold.

The formula for working a skilled trade is as below;

OR

• /r Xd6+(X*Y)(Where Y is your proficiency bonus, for a proficient trade)

Also

If you have expertise in an artisan's tool or instrument, you may instead use the formula

• /r Xd6+(XY2)

Proficiency

Expertise

Travel

You must spend DTP to travel outside of Ivoryhold when not in a session. Below is the travel time comparisons of various methods These are one way only, and you must spend the same DTP to return, or return by another method, with the exception of instant teleportation, should the caster have sufficient spell slots and the activity in ivoryhold take less than a day. Keep in mind unless stated otherwise there are no NPC casters to cast the below spells.

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Resources:

Performing work for the faction requires access to the faction’s headquarters or a local office of the faction. If such a place is available, the activity takes one workweek (7 DTP) of time but no gold expenditure.

Resolution:

At the end of the required time, the character chooses to make a either a Charisma (Persuasion) check or a check related to the guild (Intelligence: Religion for a church, for example).

The total of the check determines the benefit of the service, as determined by the following:

• 1-10: No effect. Your efforts do not make an impression whatsoever on the faction.
• 11-20: You earn 1 renown with the faction.
• 21+: You earn 2 renown with the faction.

Complications:

It can be difficult to please everyone in a faction, and slip-ups are possible. If on the check at the end of the workweek a character rolls a one, regardless of if they earned a renown point or not, roll on the complications table or have the moderating member of staff choose one: You have offended a guild officer somehow by an offhand remark Another faction has decided to try to recruit you as an agent of theirs You have violated a taboo of the faction’s and must make up for this transgression A Sub-faction offers you a position in their membership You are requested to take up a difficult quest by the faction’s leadership You discover an agent or thief within the faction.

Tools -

Each item has a tool that is closely related to crafting it, if you are unsure what tool to use, ask a rules/admin team member, these are the mods as listed in sane magic item table.

Formula -

When you break down an item, you understand its fundamentals, and can craft that same item without researching, you also may share this info with the guild, or friends, or heck, you might even be able to sell the formula. The alternative to breaking down items to gain formula, is the act of researching using the libraries, or maybe in quest npc’s using our research system listed on page 4.

Residuum -

This silvery magic dust is just as it seems, solid magic, the foundation of the universe, this dust is what allows the item to.. Well be magical, and thus have awesome abilities. That said all magic items have it, and can be broken down to gain back some of said residuum, to calculate what you get back, it's simple, just take the cost of the item to craft, and divide it in half, and log that into downtime, it takes six hours to break down an item, and you can take a minimum of 1 dtp in the log, so it's wise to break down two at a time.

To craft the items, place the correctly formatted info into #downtime-log

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Note

Please understand that these rules may be updated if exploits are discovered. We want trades to be fair, and any trade that seemingly tries to exploit the system may be retconned, even retroactively.

Theater of the Mind (TotM)

Games ran purely in chat channels on Discord, using the Avrae bot for dice rolls.

Roll20

Games using the Roll20 Platform. Requires a free account, at https://roll20.net

Residuum

Collected in glass philters, a magic residue that can be used in the crafting of magic items.

Play by Post (PBP)

A game where players can post when they have time in response to the DM and each other. Great for those with difficult schedules, but a single game can take a significant amount of time to complete.

EOT

End of turn, normally used for text based combat.

DTP

Downtime points, the currency we use for activities outside of sessions.

Character Death

Character death is an inevitable part of dungeons and dragons, and it may occur at any moment during any quest. When your character dies, you may request what you wish recorded on their grave stone and their death should be recorded in the #death-log channel. Their gold and items will be held under the control of a caretaker. The caretaker is another character nominated by the dead PC to handle and control the dead PC's assets, including their gold, items, and However, there are guidelines a Dungeon Master can follow to ensure that death is a part of the game that is implemented with fairness, and in good judgement. Creating encounters with appropriate challenge ratings for all characters participating that follows the outlines set in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Established rules are not a perfect balancing system, and in some scenarios (e.g a lone Succubus against a party of low level characters has the power to kill a character in a single attack) more judgement and discretion will be necessary. If a Dungeon Masters is not sure if a challenge will be balanced, it is advisable to ask the Rules Architects for their opinions. When a player character remains lies dead after a session, the player must be requested for what they want written on their character's gravestone, and the character's death should be recorded in the death log. The character's gold and items will be divided, either between the party members that survived them, or what was laid out in their will. If there are no survivors, the items remain where the party fell.

So you have found a nice little lot of land in the slums have you? Well this is how you can use that land to build something, be it a house, a tavern, a guild hall, or even a inn!

Basic Construction Costs

Extra Rules

If you have proficiency or expertise in either carpenter's tools or mason's tools, you may reduce the downtime cost of construction of a house or rooms by one quarter.

The following rules are in place regarding housing:

• An upgrade for a house must be in full, if you have a small house with two floors, and wish to upgrade to medium, you need to upgrade fully to a medium house with two floors at the time of upgrade.

• Only characters who live in the house may benefit from rooms.

• Houses must have sufficient beds for the characters inhabiting the house in order to gain any mechanical benefits.

• Each resident is assigned a bed.

• Log housebuilding in downtime log, listing all residents.

• Ownership of a house cannot be split between multiple players.

• One player must be documented as the owner of the house, and in the event of their death select a beneficiary to receive ownership.

• DTP required to build housing can be reduced using Carpenter's or Mason's Tools with proficiency.

Magic Rooms

All rooms that replicate a spells effect require attendance of an ally that can cast the spell, or an additional cost of 1000g and 30 downtime points to hire a spellcaster from the grotto, unless otherwise stated within the document.

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I | Basic Rules

Additions

These are options to place on an existing room, remember if it is added to a room, you have to spend the cost of the addition.

Example:

you have a medium house, and a library inside that you want a magic circle in, you would pay The 10k gp and 10 dtp to cast the spell on the room.