Pristine Dark
Supreme Cookie Overlord
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| Embers rise quickly into the air as your breath fogs before you. Glancing back, the sight of shadowy figures roaming through your burning hometown scorch your eyes. The screams of those less fortunate than your self hang heavily in the air. You want to help, to ride in upon your stead with sword in hand, slaying anything that stands before you. Perhaps for a moment, your hands even tense around the reigns…that is until you see the women in black. Her fingers wistfully play through a frightened young girls hair. Her lips moving slowly as she issues further orders to her shadowy minions mere moments before they slaughter your friends, family and neighbors. The god-queen of death herself had come; your old life merely another casualty in her crusade against all that still draw breath. With the woods before you, you command your stead away from the most recent settlement to be marked as ‘fallen’. At the moment, you are but an insignificant peon before the Lady Ashura, but her conquest has garnered her much enmity. You swear you will have your revenge…one way or another. While this may not actually be your story, you no doubt have a similar one. For the past century, the goddess of death has spread her craft across the ring world Sarkana. Outer Side has already fallen completely before her might and now she turns her cold eye upon us. Regardless of your history, one way or another you have found yourself in the infamous ‘kettle’. A place where lives are made or lost, the kettle is an arena nestled inside the Fringe and you…are nothing more than the next amusing show. Or at least, that was how it was supposed to be… To all those who waited patiently for me to release this, I certainly hope that you enjoy the story. Sorry there isn't a bit more meat to the sign up that I took so very long producing. |
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| The Inner Side has a variable environment ranging from frozen tundras at the farthest points from Eos, to arid deserts at the closest. All goodly races dwell upon the Inner Side at some point or another. | The Outer Side as legend holds was once every bit as vibrant and fertile as the Inner Side. That all changed however during the God-queen’s rise to power. What once held many thriving metropolises’ now rests in ruins and wastelands, the majority of which are infested with her shade and undead armies. Though travel there is still possible though The Fringe or the Thought Sea, to visit is to invite almost certain death. |
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| The single thin band that makes up one of the sides of the ring world Sarkana. It is a place of thought and memory, magic and lore. It is a barren land with only rare bits of solid material exist. The souls of all recently deceased inexorably make their way through The Fringe on their journey to whatever afterlife awaits them. For all intents and purposes, The Fringe is the equivalent of the Astral Plane in a standard campaign setting. | A massive ocean that extends off of one edge Sarkana. While its surface on either side of the ring is just ordinary water, underneath their depths roils boundless possibility and potential. While one can enter the Thought Sea directly by braving the miles of water above it, it actually extends around nearly all of the ring world invisibly. For all intents and purposes, the Thought Sea is the equivalent of the Ethereal Plane in a standard campaign setting. |
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| Simultaneously the source of all magic and the ‘sun’ of the Ring World, Eos is an important element to life on Sarkana. As it rests inside the actual ring of the ring world, the Outer Side of Sarkana is in a state of perpetual night. Inner Side however enjoys both day, and two six hour nights due to the movements of its two moons (Miir and Cluuth) The ring of Sarkana is actually an elliptical rather than a true circle. Owing to this fact and the world’s unique shape, temperature fluctuations along Sarkana can produce exceedingly unusual effects. In some extreme cases, the first morning of the day (firstmorn) might greet Sarkana’s inhabitants with coastal like temperatures, while the first evening (firsteve) may present the same inhabitants with snow. The points farthest from Eos suffer frigid temperatures year round, while the points closest have the exact opposite issue. The Outer Side is noticeably cooler than Inner Side, facing winter-like environments year long in even the closest areas to Eos, and disastrously cold environments at the ‘poles’. |
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Originally a lesser deity of death and ice, Ashura quickly rose to power with her cunning betrayal of her prior mentor Nerull. When all was said and done, she had not only stolen the entirety of his power well, but banished the still living (in a manor of speaking) god to The Fringe in a prison of his own mummified flesh. Thinking her satisfied with her new station and elevated powers, the other deities turned a blind eye to his defeat. It was not until the death of two other prominent deities at her hands that the gods at large realized there was any threat at all. By the time her true danger had been noticed, Ashura had already advanced to something altogether greater in power than even a Greater Deity, a supreme entity that they refer to as a God-Queen. One by one she killed and absorbed the power of every deity living upon the Outer Side before finally ceasing her god slaying and turning her eyes to conquering the mortal races. |
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| During point buy, all base attributes [str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis, and Cha] start at 8. You then spend a number of points each time you increase a single stat once as defined in the chart above. No base stat may exceed 18 or dip below 8 during the point buy process, however racial stat adjustments may still cause stats exceeding the normal limitations. This campaign will be allotting a total of 28 points to distribute | ||||||||||||||
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| This is a list of materials that have been accepted on a very general basis. What I mean by this, is that these books likely do not possess very many conflicts or excluded material, but still may. As stated in the material segment under the rules section, any and all material that is accepted may become rejected at the discretion of the author (Myself: PristineDark). Material from sources not listed here may still be accepted with permission from the DM. |
| Arms and Equipment Guide | Complete Adventurer | Complete Arcane |
| Complete Divine | Complete Mage | Complete Psionic |
| Complete Scoundrel | Complete Warrior | Drow of the Underdark |
| Dungeon Master's Guide I | Dungeon Master's Guide II | Expanded Psionics Handbook |
| Fiendish Codex I | Fiendish Codex II | Libris Mortis |
| Lords of Madness | Magic Item Compendium | Magic of Faerun |
| Monster manual I | Monster Manual II | Monster Manual III |
| Monster Manual IV | Monster Manual V | Netbook of Feats v12 |
| Planar handbook | Players Handbook I | Players Handbook II |
| Spell Compendium | Underdark |
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| [Teleportation] Descriptor |
| Any spell or power that causes you to instantly travel across some distance within the world of Sarkana, or another plane of existence is a [Teleportation] spell. These spells generally do not achieve this by using planer shortcuts and are unaffected by having any particular plane cut off from a particular area. A [Teleportation] effect can only transport a target to a specific location within long range or a location that has been “anchored”. An anchored location may be one with an anchor sigil (in the case of arcane teleportation), it may be a location with a sufficiently similar object as the location you are starting at (in the case of drudic teleportation via plants), or it may simply be a location suffused with divine magic and faith (in the case of divine teleportation via word of recall). The teleportation sub-school no longer serves any meaningful purpose and all spells that were previously of this sub-school lose this classification. Maze and Plane Shift are exceptions as well as spells that do not stay within planer boundaries, and as such do not gain this descriptor. |
| Anchor Sigils |
| Anchor sigils are arcane markings at a fixed location that allow for direct and error free travel to their location. They are unique symbols that are determined by their creator, their location, and the ambient magical conditions at the time of their creation. They can be located anywhere a creature would have remained long enough to complete the process, be it on land, in mid-air, underwater, and so on. They are visible to anyone with the ability to detect magic. Most anchor sigils are copied into a notebook to be referenced during casting as the sigil must be properly visualized to transport a target to it. |
| Learning New Anchor Sigils |
| Because they serve to funnel new arrivals into a specific area, many establishments (as big as cities and as small as shops) have public and well known anchor sigils. They are generally printed or posted in a public place; some may even be drown on the ground in the location that they anchor. Map vendors can be found across Sarkana selling maps that correspond with anchor sigils depicted near popular or exclusive locations. Detect Magic will also reveal an anchor sigil in an area, even while scrying. Any spell caster with access to an area may just look around to find existing anchor sigils. |
| Creating Anchor Sigils |
| Creating an anchor sigil is a simple ritual; knowledge of a [Teleportation] spell is not required to create these sigils, but knowledge of such a spell automatically confers knowledge of the ritual. The process requires a gemstone valued at 100gp or greater to serve as a focus that is not expended. Making an anchor sigil requires four successful DC 20 knowledge (arcana) checks. The first check is made 15 minutes after the beginning of the ritual, with another check made every 15 minutes until you have the required four successes. Anchor sigils are unique, as much a product of their location as creator, and some special or magically unique areas may require difficult checks, a greater number of successful checks, allow a set number of failures before the process must be restarted, or be entirely unanchorable. Many areas deep underground are in that last particular category. Anchor sigils may also be strengthened, becoming more difficult and time consuming to remove. Each layer of strengthening requires two additional successful checks, each at a DC equal to the previous DC to create or strengthen the sigil +2. Anchor sigils can be strengthened in this fashion up to ten additional times. The strength of an anchor sigil is obvious to anyone viewing it with detect magic. Strengthening is generally performed on public anchors to make them resistant to pranksters removing them, since a sigil strengthened 10 times requires almost two hours to remove. It is far less common on private sigils. If an anchor sigil is ever removed, it can be remade on the same location using the standard creation above. Remade sigils are generally similar, but not identical to the old sigil, and thus cannot be reached without knowledge of the updated sigil. Someone attempting to recreate the old sigil can do so, but must have a copy of the original sigil available for reference. This adds a +5 penalty to the DC for the initial re-creation of the anchor sigil, but this DC penalty does not apply to later strengthening attempts. |
| Destroying Anchor Sigils |
| Once made, anchor sigils are not especially difficult to remove. Permanently destroying an anchor sigil requires a number of knowledge (arcana) checks equal to the level of strengthening plus +1. Each check to weaken an anchor sigil requires 15 minutes and a gemstone valued at 100gp or greater to serve as a focus that is not destroyed in the attempt. The DC for these checks begins at 15, plus another 2 for each level of strengthening that the anchor sigil has received. If you succeed at the check, one layer of strengthening is removed and the DC is reduced by 2. When the DC has been reduced to 15, a successful check destroys the anchor sigil. You receive a +3 bonus to these checks if you created the sigil yourself. |
| Anchor Sigils and Divination |
| Somewhat oddly, anchor sigils can be located via divination spells and abilities as if they were creatures under the right conditions. While all sigils will respond to detect magic, they do not respond to any other divination spells unless the diviner already knows the sigil. Knowledge of the sigil grants the diviner first hand knowledge of it for purposes of the spell. If the diviner created the sigil, they are instead considered to be very familiar with the subject. Thus anyone in position of a sigil’s representation can attempt to determine it’s location via ‘locate creature’ and view what is occurring at the sigil with ‘scrying’ or similar abilities. Anchor sigils resist these divination attempts however, and have a will save bonus equal to 5, + another 1 per level of strengthening. |
| Waveslide Universal [Teleportation] Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 4, Travel 5 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 Standard Action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Area: Up to 10 ft. Radius, 20 ft tall column burst Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Harmless (Will Negates) Spell Resistance: Yes _____________________________ | This spell transports all creatures and unattached objects within the area of effect to an anchor sigil (a magical sigil tied to a fixed point) up to 250 miles per caster level away after a short delay. The anchor sigil must be one that the caster of the spell knows, either because they created it themselves, discovered it, or learned of it’s shape through another method (purchase, research, etc.). Interplaner travel is not possible with this spell. The affected area is a column up to 10 feet in radius and 20 feet in height. The exact dimensions are selected by the caster at the time of casting. The height is always along the same direction as the subjective gravity of the caster. Areas under the effect of a waveslide radiate magic during the time between when casting is complete and when the transport occurs, but otherwise gives no clue to it’s destination. There is a delay between completion of spell casting and actual transport of 1d3+2 rounds with the actual transport happening on the caster’s initiative after this delay. The caster is unaware of the exact amount of time this delay will take. Only creatures and objects that are fully contained and unattached to or restrained by anything outside of the area after this delay are transported; the caster of the spell need not be among them. There is otherwise no weight limit or targeting restrictions for this spell. Casting this spell in a forest will thus bring a fair amount of leaves and detritus with the travelers, but will not sever twigs from trees that happen to fall within the area of effect. The creatures and objects transported will arrive as close to the anchor sigil as conditions at the anchor sigil allow, but never more than 50 feet away from it. This spell never places individuals into solid objects, but it may place individuals around solid objects if it can do so in such a way as to fit all travelers more closely to the anchor sigil. The relative spacing and orientation of travelers is generally retrained during the transit, minor adjustments for elevation and spacing may be made. In this way, two waveslide travelers who had nothing between them when the spell took effect may find themselves standing on stairs at different heights or with a a wall, or ever other people, between them when they arrive. While the spell may not place travelers in trees, rocks, or other solid objects, it may place them miles out to sea over water, underwater, inside a pool of acid, several hundred feet above Sarkana or basically anywhere someone could have maintained their position long enough to anchor the location. If the selected anchor sigil no longer exists or is rendered non-functional, the spell fails immediately after casting. Similarly, if it is not possible to place the entire group within range of the anchor sigil due to spacial limitations or obstructing objects at the anchor sigil, the spell simply fails after the delay. The caster is aware of any cause of failure. |
| Greater Waveslide Universal [Teleportation] Level:Sorcerer/Wizard 6, Travel 7 Components:V, S Casting Time: 1 Standard Action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft. /2 levels) Area: Up to 10 foot radius, 20 foot tall column burst Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw:Harmless (Will Negates) Spell Resistance: Yes | This spell function as Waveslide, except as follows:
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| Wavepool Universal [Teleportation] Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 9, Rune 9 Components: V, M Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: 0 ft. Effect: 5 ft. Radius, 10 ft. Tall column that Waveslides those who enter it. Duration: 1 day (D) Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: Yes | You create a circle on a surface that transports any creature or object that fully enters it to a designated anchor point, as if they had been transported via Waveslide without the normal delay. A creature or object must fully enter the circle to be transported in this fashion, if any part of a creature remains outside the circle, or they are restrained to an object not inside the circle, they will not be transported. Fully covering the circle with an object that exceeds the dimensions of the circle, such as a large carpet, suppresses the effect of the circle for as long as it is covered. You designate the anchor point for the circle when you cast the spell, and it may not change afterwords. If the anchor point is invalid, the spell fails. Similarly, the spell immediately ends if the destination becomes unanchored during the duration. The Wavepool spell can be made permanent through use of the permanency spell. A permanent wavepool is merely rendered inactive for 10 minutes whenever it is disabled or dispelled, and can be used normally thereafter. A wavepool is difficult to detect and disable once cast. Unless clearly marked out, only characters with the Trapfinding ability can find the circle without accidentally triggering it. Whether it is marked or not, the Trapfinding ability is also required to disable the circle via non-spell means. Material Component: Amber dust to cover the area of the circle worth 1,000 Gp. |
| Analyze Teleportation Divination Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 5 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 Standard Action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft. /2 levels) Effect: Learn details of one [Teleportation] spell within range Duration: Instantanious Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No | You learn the starting location, level, and approximate distance traveled of all [Teleportation] effects that have occurred within range in the last minute. You do not learn the direction of any effect, however. Of these effects, you may select one to learn the spell name of. If the spell involved travel to an anchor sigil (not just an anchored location), you may learn the anchor sigil if you succeed on a caster level check, DC 8 + 2 per round since the spell was cast. |
| Improved Dimension Door Conjuration [Teleportation] Level: Bard 5, Sorcerer/Wizard 5 Components: V Casting time: 1 standard action Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level) Target: You and touched objects or other touched willing creatures Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None and Will negates (object) Spell Resistance: No and Yes (object) | This spell functions as dimension door, except that you may take actions immediately after casting the spell. |
| Pursue Waveslide Universal [Teleportation] Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 4 Components: V, S Casting time: 1 standard action Range: Up to 10 ft. Area: Up to 10 ft. radius, 20' tall column burst Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Harmless (Will negates) Spell Resistance: Yes | This spell transports the caster and selected targets to the destination of a recently cast [Teleportation] effect, as if they had been transported there via waveslide. The teleportation to be pursued must have occurred within 100 feet of the casting of this spell, and it must have been to an anchored destination. When used to follow an arcane spell, the participants will travel to the selected anchor sigil, and to the selected location or related object (as specified in their updated descriptions) when used to follow a divine spell. This spell will not follow a [Teleportation] effect that was not anchored, such as dimension door. There is no maximum distance for this tag-along style waveslide, as the magic is essentially using the path laid out by the previous spell. Unlike a standard waveslide, there is no delay with this spell and transit occurs as soon as the casting is complete. There is a chance the pursuit will fail, however, as the waveslide trail dissipates with time. To successfully pursue a waveslide, the caster of pursue waveslide must succeed on a caster level check. The DC of this check is 8, +2 for each full round that has passed since the waveslide took effect. If the result is a failure then the spell fails and is wasted. If the result is a success, the pursuit functions normally. A successfully pursued waveslide counts as a waveslide itself, and may be pursued more easily than the original waveslide it followed. The affected area is a column up to 10 feet in radius and 20 feet in height, and centered on the caster. The exact dimensions are selected by the caster at the time of casting. The height is always along the same direction as the subjective gravity of the caster. Only creatures and objects that are fully contained and unattached to or restrained by anything outside of the area after this delay are transported; the caster of the spell need not be among them. There is otherwise no weight limit or targeting restrictions for this spell. Casting this spell in a forest will thus bring a fair amount of leaves and detritus with the travelers, but it will not sever twigs from trees that happen to fall within the area of effect. The creatures and objects transported will arrive as close to the anchor sigil as conditions at the anchor sigil allow, but never more than 50 feet away from it. This spell never places individuals into solid objects, but it may place individuals around solid objects if it can do so in such as way as to fit all travelers more closely to the anchor sigil. The relative spacing and orientation of travelers is generally retained during their transit, minor adjustments for elevation and spacing may be made. In this way, two waveslide travelers who had nothing between them when the spell took effect may find themselves standing on stairs at different heights or with a wall, or other people, between them when they arrive. While the spell may not place travelers in trees, rocks, or other solid objects, it may place them miles out to sea over water, underwater, inside a pool of acid, several hundred feet above Sarkana or basically anywhere someone could have maintained their position long enough to anchor the location. If the selected anchor sigil no longer exists or functions, the spell fails immediately after casting. Similarly, if it is not possible to place the entire group within range of the anchor sigil due to spatial limitations or obstructing objects at the anchor sigil, the spell simply fails after the delay. The caster is aware of any cause of failure. Note: Pursue waveslide is technically a misnomer, as the spell is also used to pursue divine [Teleportation] effects. |
| Psionic Waveslide Level: Nomad 3 Display: Visual Manifesting Time: 1 standard action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Area: Up to 10 ft. Radius, 20 ft tall column burst Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Harmless (Will Negates) Power Resistance: Yes Power Points: 5 | As the Waveslide spell, except as noted here. |
| Greater Psionic Waveslide Level: Nomad 5 Display: Visual Manifesting Time: 1 standard action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Area: Up to 10 ft. Radius, 20 ft tall column burst Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Harmless (Will Negates) Power Resistance: Yes Power Points: 9 | As Greater Waveslide, except as noted here. |
| Psionic Wavepool Level: Nomad 8 Display: Visual Manifesting Time: 10 minutes Range: 0 ft. Effect: 5 ft. Radius, 10 ft. Tall column that Waveslides those who enter it. Duration: 1 day (D) Saving Throw: None Power Resistance: Yes Power Points: 15 | As the Wavepool spell, except as noted here |
| Spell / Power Name | Spell / Power Level | Edits |
| Dimensional Anchor | Cleric 4, Sorc/Wiz 4, Nomad 4 | The target of the spell is unable to perform or be the target of any sort of [Teleportation] effect for the duration. This spell also cuts them off from all pocket dimensions, so they they may not enter a rope trick or use a bag of holding. |
| Dimensional Lock | Cleric 8, Sorc/Wiz 8, | Targets within the area of this spell are unable to perform or be the target of any sort of extradimensional travel or [Teleportation] effects. All other extradimensional effects, such as rope trick or a bag of holding, are non-functional within the area of this spell as well. |
| Hallow/Unhallow | Cleric 5, Druid 5 | This spell gains an additional preparation option. It may be cast in such a way that it is an anchored location for word of recall. This divine anchor is considered a 4th level spell effect, and acts as the spell tied to the hallow/unhallow effect. A creature may only have one of these style hallow/unhallow spells in effect at any time. If another one is created, the original loses its anchor even though the hallow/unhallow effect continues normally. |
| Refuge | Cleric 6, Sorc/Wiz 8, Community7, Liberation 7 | This spell gains the [Teleportation] descriptor. When cast as a domain spell, the spell does not require an expensive material component. The destination of the spell is set when it is cast. Divine casters are limited to suitably sacred destinations, as if they had cast word of recall. Arcane casters may select any anchor point they know as the destination when they prepare the spell. If the intended location becomes unanchored, the spell will fail when triggered. |
| Transport Via Plants | Druid 6 | This spell gains the [Teleportation] descriptor. Any location with a plant of the same type and as the one that you entered, that is also large enough for you to fit within it, is considered an anchored location for the spell. |
| Tree Slide | Druid 5, Ranger 4 | This spell gains the [Teleportation] descriptor. Any location with a plant of the same type and as the one that you entered, that is also large enough for you to fit within it, is considered an anchored location for the spell. |
| Word of Recall | Cleric 4, Druid 6 | This spell gains the [Teleportation] descriptor. You do not need to designate a sanctuary when you prepare the spell. Instead, when you cast word of recall you may target a divinely anchored location (as indicated in the hallowed and unhallowed changes above) that you are aware of. You need not have created the anchor yourself, but it must belong to a compatible faith. As a result of this limitation, clerics may not use the anchored locations of their deity's enemies, and clerics and druids generally can not use the hallowed areas of each other. |
| Prestige classes are leveled independently of standard class levels, and have their own separate experience bars. When determining Attack bonus and Saving throws, the character uses the better between their standard class levels and their prestige class levels rather than adding the two together. For instance, a level 2 Druid gains a fortitude save bonus of +3, whereas a level 2 Loremaster has a fortitude save bonus of +1. Rather than adding the two together as is normal, the character would simply take the +3 bonus given by their druid class levels. If the character continued to increase their Loremaster levels until they arrived at level 8 where they would have a +4 bonus, they would then use their Loremaster levels to determine Fortitude. The character’s effective Hit Dice counts as either their standard class levels or prestige class levels, whichever is higher. Prestige classes that increase caster or manifester levels do so only up to the characters effective HD. The character recieves normal hit points and skill points for their standard class and prestige class levels as they improve, with a maximum number of skill points allowed in each skill equal to their effective HD +3. Characters may possess only one prestige class, and no prestige class may be increased beyond 10th level. |
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This section was created only due to the wild differences between how each person seemed to go about making their character and the sign up process in general. Listed below is how I would like each sign up to be completed.
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