Nenni Guenhwyvar the Tibbit Erudite

Name

Nenni Guenhwyvar

Concept

A cohort of gamers in the real world get planeshifted into another real world that runs on the d20 mechanics. The gamers in the "real" world have a housecat. When the gamers planeshift into the alternative reality, they are accompanied by their housecat. Just as the gamers inherit fantasy races, classes, skills and powers, so too does their housecat.

This is the character record of that housecat and the d20 mechanics that represent its game-world powers. Its real-world powers are documented elsewhere.

Sources

• System Reference Document
• Players Handbook: only for ability advancement on p22 (the SRD doesn't provide ability advancement for legal reasons (just oblique references to it) or even the XP table!)
• Dragon Compendium: "Tibbit" race
• Complete Psionics: Erudite class variant on p153
• The Mind's Eye: Spell To Power alternative class feature
• Book of Exalted Deeds: feat chain for ascetism since equipping a housecat with anatomically-appropriate, setting-suitable equipment could be fraught with risk. Having no gear obviates that.
• Spell Compendium: spells
• Sandstorm: Sunstroke spell on p123
• Complete Psionic: Urban Strider power on p104

Liberties taken

• Psicrystal:
  • A Familiar is considered to have HD equal to its master when its HD is required to determine spell effects (eg Sleep) but otherwise it doesn't really have or gain hit dice
  • A Psicrystal is a real monster with explicit hit dice. "Its Hit Dice are equal to its master's Hit Dice (...) its hit points are equal to half its master's".
  • "As its Hit Dice increase, a creature’s attack bonuses and saving throw modifiers might improve. It gains more feats and skills". Only intelligent constructs can gain feats and skills; the Psicrystal has a minimum Intelligence of 6. Therefore a Psicrystal that advances its HD gains Feats (like an Animal Companion and unlike a Familiar).
  • "A psicrystal has the same skill ranks as its owner" therefore there are no discretionary allocation of skillpoints when creating a Psicrystal; it just gets a carbon copy of its Master's ranks.
• Skills:
  • Cats "use their Dexterity modifier instead of their Strength modifier for Climb and Jump checks."
  • I have applied this substition to the Tibbit only while in feline form
• Repertoire:
  • Increasing the Powers Known by an Erudite costs gold and 2% of that level's XP
  • Officially, "This is an advantage that an erudite should maximize early and often, looking as hard as possible for new powers to add to his repertoire. An erudite shouldn't wait for opportunities to discover new powers to fall into his lap. Instead, he should actively seek them by making deals with other psionic characters, purchasing rare power stones and so on in pursuit of expanding the sphere of his psionic mastery."
  • In a "real world" setting, opportunities after character generation are likely to be scarce to none.
  • I have bought scrolls of the relevant spells and expended gold proportional to the XP requirement

Standard Operating Procedures

Unless described otherwise, Nenni:
• is in and stays in feline form
• is Psionically focussed and refocusses as soon as practical when focus is expended
• sleeps all day and night atop a stack of RPG splatbooks, absorbing their Powers via osmosis and knowing that people will have to pat and stroke him if they want access to the books in his hoard
• wears the Psicrystal as a collar (since he has no pockets to carry it in)
• communicates via the Psicrystal's telepathy with anyone else (range of 30ft)
• all wealth, from a jingly jangly shiny thing all the way up to a freshly slain sparrow, is made as an offering to his benefactor. In return, this benefactor furnishes him with access to all the Psionic Powers and Spell books he could ever want to hoard. And pats, always.
• Shares with the Psicrystal every power or spell cast on himself that it is viable to do so. Unlike a Familiar's Share Spells ability, the Psicrystal's Share Powers ability does not overrule Type restrictions. "The owner and psicrystal cannot share powers if the powers normally do not affect creatures of the psicrystal's type (construct)."
• obtains Aid Another (+2) from the Psicrystal on every test where it makes sense to do so
• has the Psicrystal keep watch/guard whenever Nenni sleeps, since constructs do not sleep / breathe / eat / etc.

If there is sufficient time to prepare before an encounter:

1. Inertial Armour in case anything goes wrong
2. Minor Disguise to look like a different cat or Chameleon to hide altogether
3. Heroics: Improved Initiative to go first
4. Improvisation and/or Heroism to increase the chance of suppressing Display

Which of these Powers to choose will depend on how many of the limited unique Powers per level Nenni has already chosen that day.

Nenni Guenhwyvar the housecat

Outlook

• Alignment:
  • Chaotic Good
• Deity:
  • Master Cat represented as:
    • Feleo
    • Sharess

Race

Class

Psion variant: the Erudite with the Alternative Class Feature: Spell To Power which allows a Psion to add arcane spells (up to one level lower than his maximum Power) to his repertoire.

Hitpoints

Abilities

Improvements: PHB p22 (the SRD doesn't provide ability advancement for legal reasons or even the XP table)

Saving throws

A 3rd-level ascetic is immune to the effects of being in a hot or cold environment. He can exist comfortably in conditions between -50 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit without having to make Fortitude saves.

Armour class

Inertial Armour grants 4 (or more) armour bonus to AC (does not apply against Touch attacks) made of psychokinetic Force (applies against Incorporeal Attacks).

Attacks

"At 4th level, an ascetic gains a +1 enhancement bonus on all his attack and damage rolls."

Power Points per day

" To regain used daily power points, a psionic character must first sleep for 8 hours. He must refrain from movement, combat, manifesting powers, skill use, conversation. He must have at least 1 hour of rest immediately prior to regaining lost power points. Once the character has rested in a suitable environment, it takes only an act of concentration spanning 1 full round to regain all power points of the psionic character's daily limit. "

" The DC to become psionically focused is 20. Meditating is a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity. When you are psionically focused, you can expend your focus on any single Concentration check you make thereafter. When you expend your focus in this manner, your Concentration check is treated as if you rolled a 15. "

"Unlike a psion, an erudite is limited to manifesting a certain number of unique psionic powers of each level per day from the repertoire of powers he knows". Additional unique Powers per Power level are unlocked according to the progression on Complete Psionics p155:

Powers known

• The Cure Wounds series are available as arcane spells for the Bard (spontaneous arcane caster). For an Erudite, it is worthwhile having Cure spells of multiple levels for times when the unique Power selection of a particular Power level is already exhausted.
• Mind Thrust is the only direct-damage lethal Power Nenni knows. It will only be used against non-(monstrous)-humanoids. Sunstroke will be used against (monstrous) humanoids instead. "At 4th level, an ascetic gains a +1 enhancement bonus on all his attack and damage rolls."
• Astral Construct "and similar powers are not considered attacks because the powers themselves don't harm anyone." "As a free action, a construct's manifester can direct the construct to attack particular enemies, use specific tactics or powers, perform other actions, or do nothing at all. The construct does exactly what its creator directs it to do." Dealing non-lethal damage is at a -4 to hit on attack rolls.

The Erudite automatically (for free) adds a number of Powers from the Psion/Wilder list to their Repertoire:

• 2 + (Int bonus) 1st-level Powers when you begin play
• +2 Powers of any level the Erudite can manifest each level-up

The Erudite can also gain Discipline Powers "up to 1 level lower than the highest level power he can manifest" by:

1. a Psicraft check (DC 15 + the highest-level power contained) to "make mental contact"
2. a Psicraft check (DC 15 + the power's level) to "understand" the Power
3. meditate for 8 hours
4. spend 20XP per Erudite level (ie 2% of the XP required to attain the next class level (for a monoclass Erudite character) (not total XP))

This is a similar limitation to charging 100gp per page (ie per level of each spell) inscribed in a 15gp Spellbook limited to 100 pages. A 7th-level Wizard can record 9 spells per spell level in a spellbook without running out of pages. A 9th-level Wizard can record 6 spells per spell level and still fit it in one spellbook. That's an investment of 10,000gp though (more than half a 7th-level Wizard's wealth).

Although donating all wealth to a charitable library of Powers could mean No Power in the 'verse is out of reach, learning 25 Powers each level will use up half the XP required to level-up. But XP has a gold-piece value:

• for Magic Item Creation, "add 5 gp per 1 XP"
• for Spellcasting Services, "add 5 gp per XP"
• for ascetics, "sacrifice experience points in place of expensive components, with 1 XP equivalent to 5 gp value of components."

Powers have Displays which can be suppressed with a successful Concentration (15 + Power level) check. "This check is part of the action of manifesting the power. If the check is unsuccessful, the power manifests normally with its display."

The Erudite with Convert Spell to Power considers any arcane spell to be a Discipline Power by passing a Spellcraft (DC 15 + spell level) test. Spells converted to powers cost the following Power points to manifest:

0. 5 per day; no cost
1. 1 Power Points
2. 3 Power Points
3. 5 Power Points
4. 7 Power Points
5. 9 Power Points
6. 11 Power Points
7. 13 Power Points
8. 15 Power Points
9. 17 Power Points

" Spells that deal a number of dice of damage based on caster level deal damage as if cast by a character of the minimum level of the class capable of casting the spell. For example, a fireball deals a number of dice of damage based on the erudite's manifester level, so when manifested it deals 5d6 points of damage (as if cast by a 5th-level wizard, which is the minimum level of wizard capable of casting fireball). An erudite can pay additional power points to augment the dice of damage dealt by a spell. Every 1 extra power point spent at the time of manifesting increases the spell's effective caster level by 1 for purposes of dealing damage. "

This was always an option for any psionic character via independent research and Psionics-Magic Transparency. It's just much cheaper than the generic 200XP per Power level method because this is the Erudite's raison d'être.

Since an Erudite treats Spells as Discipline Powers and can only learn those at least one level lower than the maximum Power he can manifest, the only way to learn 9th-level Spells is to take the Epic Manifestation Feat.

" Spells with expensive material components (non-negligible) require you to spend an additional 2 power points when manifesting the spell in lieu of the material components. Spells with a focus are treated the same as those with a material component. " " A character who has forsaken material possessions may find himself at a marked disadvantage when it comes to certain necessary expenses, such as expensive material components. One option is for ascetic characters to beg components from other party members, who are probably gaining as much benefit from having the spell cast as the caster is. Alternatively, an ascetic spellcaster can sacrifice experience points in place of expensive components, with 1 XP equivalent to 5 gp value of components. "

" The manifestation of powers by a psionic character is considered a psi-like ability, as is the manifestation of powers by creatures without a psionic class. Psi-like abilities have no verbal, somatic, or material components, nor do they require a focus. "

Languages

Common, Feline, +Int (+3):

• Common
• Feline (cats)
• Auran (air-based creatures)
• Draconic (dragons, kobolds, troglodytes, lizardfolk)
• Sylvan (dryads, brownies, leprechauns)

Feats

Skill points

• 2 +Int (×4 at first level)
• +1 each level from 4th level onward

Class Skills: Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Gather Information, Knowledge (psionics), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually), Profession, Psicraft, Spellcraft.

Flexible Mind: Ride, Survival become Class Skills and gain a +1.

• A natural roll of 1 is not an automatic failure.
• Skill Synergy (and for Autohypnosis)
• Psicrystal within 5ft grants Alertness
• A Psicrystal has the same skill ranks as its master (and gains from Skill Synergy) and can Aid Another for a +2 bonus
• Survival: you can automatically determine where true north lies in relation to yourself, obviating Know Direction.
• Improvisation grants +3 to 4 skill / attack rolls made within 6 rounds
• When making a Listen, Spot, Search, Survival (Track) test, additionally roll for Psicrystal mentally linked to the character.
• Taking 10: When your character is not being threatened or distracted, you may choose to take 10.
• Taking 20: When you have plenty of time (generally 2 minutes for a skill that can normally be checked in 1 round, one full-round action, or one standard action), you are faced with no threats or distractions, and the skill being attempted carries no penalties for failure, you can take 20. Common "take 20" skills include Escape Artist, Open Lock, and Search.
• Ride allows the rider to Spur the mount to gain 10 movement for a full round, at a cost of 1hp to the mount.

PsiCrystal

" A psicrystal is a fragment of a psionic character's personality, brought into physical form and a semblance of life. Because it is an extension of its creator's personality, a character's psicrystal is in some ways a part of him. In addition, a psicrystal has a personality (being a fragment of the owner's personality), which gives its owner a bonus on certain types of checks. "

Description

Kristle is a minute green marble fastened to Nenni's collar, keeping up a mental critique on everything going on in the vicinity from a fractal robotic perspective. Unlike most constructs, he is Intelligent, granting Skills, Feats and speaking Common in addition to understanding all the languages Nenni knows. He is telepathically linked with his master within 1 mile.

Languages

• Speak Common (Su)
• Telepathic Speech (Ex) "with any creature that has a language and is within 30 feet of the psicrystal"

Purpose out of combat

1. Maintain a Telepathic VPN between the party members, relaying what each of them say to Kristle on to all the others in realtime.
2. Aid Another
3. Alertness ("Psicrystals do not have the usual construct traits of darkvision and low-light vision." "Although it has no physical sensory organs, a psicrystal can telepathically sense its environment as well as a creature with normal vision and hearing. Darkness (even supernatural darkness) is irrelevant, as are areas of supernatural silence, though a psicrystal still can't discern invisible or ethereal beings. A psicrystal's sighted range is 40 feet.")

Purpose in combat

1. Nimble (Ex) grants +2 Initiative to master
2. Solicit Psicrystal to take over the onus of maintaining Concentration on an ongoing Power
3. supply situational (meta)psionic Feats via Feat Leech: "A creature can voluntarily forego a saving throw and willingly accept a power's result."

Abilities

Improvements: PHB p22 (the SRD doesn't provide ability advancement for legal reasons or even the XP table)

Saving throws

A creature with no Constitution has no body or no metabolism. It is immune to any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless the effect works on objects or is harmless. The creature is also immune to ability damage, ability drain, and energy drain, and automatically fails Constitution checks. A creature with no Constitution cannot tire

Armour class

Attacks

Feats

Skill points

" A psicrystal has the same skill ranks as its owner, except that it has a minimum of 4 ranks each in Spot, Listen, Move Silently, and Search. A psicrystal uses its own ability modifiers on skill checks. " " A psicrystal (with its self-propulsion ability activated) uses its Dexterity modifier instead of its Strength modifier on Climb checks. It has a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks and can always choose to take 10, even if rushed or threatened. "

Equipment

" In many cultures and belief systems, the height of purity is embodied in an ascetic lifestyle that involves forswearing all material possessions. Such a life is hard for most D&D characters even to imagine, since their possessions — particularly their magic items — are such an important part of their capabilities. A character who swears a vow of poverty and takes the appropriate feats, Sacred Vow and Vow of Poverty, cannot own magic items, but he gains certain spiritual benefits that can help outweigh the lack of those items. These benefits depend on his character level. The level at which the character swears the vow (and takes the appropriate feats) is irrelevant; if he gives up his possessions at 10th level he gains all the benefits of a 10th-level ascetic character, with the exception of bonus exalted feats. "

" You may carry and use ordinary (neither magic nor masterwork) simple weapons, usually just a quarterstaff that serves as a walking stick. You may wear simple clothes (usually just a homespun robe, possibly also including a hat and sandals) with no magical properties. You may carry enough food to sustain you for one day in a simple (nonmagic) sack or bag. You may carry and use a spell component pouch. "

" A tibbit's equipment usually transforms to become part of her cat body. She loses the benefits of any weapons, shields, armor, or robes she wears or carries. Items that require a physical apparatus to function, such as a ring or a pair of boots, shift to adopt a form suitable to a cat, such as a collar or anklet and continue to provide their benefits. "

Background

Appendix 1

[2016-12-24 06:59:16]<Capn_Shoe>	The only real limitation is that obviously non-humanoid races like half-orcs are going to be really hard to explain away ICly. Most everything else can be BSed to some degree.
[2016-12-24 06:59:57]<Vivi>	Yeah, my gnome cleric idea isn't going to fly.
[2016-12-24 07:00:20]<Capn_Shoe>	Elves can hide their ears, dwarves and halflings can be assumed to be RL small persons, gnomes could probably pass as (weird-looking) children...
[2016-12-24 07:01:09]<Capn_Shoe>	Sadly, this means no talking cats. :p
[2016-12-24 07:01:22]<Hildyr>	But what if I'm a talking cat in real life?!
[2016-12-24 07:01:28]<Capn_Shoe>	...well, no, I take that back. A talking cat could work.
[2016-12-24 07:01:45]<Vivi>	Yeah, I was going to say. As long as the cat whispers in public or something, it'd be fine.
[2016-12-24 07:02:33]<Hildyr>	Starting at level 5, at least
[2016-12-24 07:03:12]<Mellow>	Capn, if you haven't watched The Gamers / Dorkness Rising as inspiration for this campaign idea, I recommend it.
[2016-12-24 07:03:46]<Capn_Shoe>	We could bump it up to 8 or 9, if you want the extra stat point and/or feat.
[2016-12-24 07:03:55]<Capn_Shoe>	Or maybe just 6.
[2016-12-24 07:04:04]<Mellow>	If cats are Kosher, then I bags playing a Tibbit Psion Thrallherd.
[2016-12-24 07:04:17]<Capn_Shoe>	What's a Tibbit?
[2016-12-24 07:04:45]<Mellow>	It's a monstrous humanoid shapechanger which has a housecat as an alternate form.
[2016-12-24 07:04:54]<Mellow>	No level adjustment.
[2016-12-24 07:06:44]<Mellow>	Shoe: some info here on my backup character for Main's campaign: http://jackpoint.neocities.org/dnd/slinky.htm
[2016-12-24 07:08:22]<Capn_Shoe>	Mellow: Wow. This is...thorough. o3o
[2016-12-24 07:08:37]<Capn_Shoe>	I'll have to wait and read it later when I'm more awake.
[2016-12-24 07:08:41]<Mellow>	Heh heh. This was my backup character if Mellow wasn't approved for Main's game.
[2016-12-24 07:09:36]<Mellow>	But a housecat bard would work pretty well in a "D&D enters the real world" context :-D
[2016-12-24 07:09:57]*	Interstate-5 is reminded of Puss in Boots. The Shrek version.
[2016-12-24 07:10:29]<Capn_Shoe>	Heh!
[2016-12-24 07:10:48]<Capn_Shoe>	Does Slinky speak with an accent? ;)
[2016-12-24 07:10:58]<Mellow>	If you like... perhaps a French accent?
[2016-12-24 07:11:04]<Capn_Shoe>	French? Bah.
[2016-12-24 07:11:04]<Mellow>	He's suave after all.
[2016-12-24 07:11:29]<Capn_Shoe>	No Spanish is suave. French is snooty. ;)
[2016-12-24 07:11:57]<Capn_Shoe>	But, meh, it's not something that comes across in text anyway.
[2016-12-24 07:13:03]<Mellow>	I think French is rather suave myself :)
[2016-12-24 07:14:38]<Capn_Shoe>	Anywho. Give your character concepts some thought, decide if there's any particular level that they'd work best at, and I'll take that into consideration next week and announce an official level. As for stats, I would assume the usual 5d6 drop 2.
[2016-12-24 07:15:51]<Interstate-5>	reroll 1s or no?
[2016-12-24 07:16:33]<Capn_Shoe>	May as well.

[2016-12-31 02:30:15]<BLusk>	I know it's either we're the players who get stuck playing our characters or our characters brought into a modern world.
[2016-12-31 02:30:30]<BLusk>	Did we decide on former or latter?
[2016-12-31 02:30:35]<mainstreet>	I think Mellow was going Bard this time...
[2016-12-31 02:30:42]<mainstreet>	uh, former, I think
[2016-12-31 02:30:45]<Mellow>	My concept was a tibbit (housecat) that's either a bard (already statted out) or a psion (possibly, if it seems more useful).
[2016-12-31 02:30:56]<BLusk>	So, healer, bard, druid.
[2016-12-31 02:31:39]<Capn_Ascii>	Yeah, you guys are D&D players who physically turn into your characters.
[2016-12-31 02:32:43]<Vivi>	Which is going to make the roleplay weird. Do you accept your new identity, or do the two fight it out?
[2016-12-31 02:33:00]<Capn_Ascii>	The key term here is 'physically'.
[2016-12-31 02:33:39]<Capn_Ascii>	You gain their bodies and powers, skills, etc. but you yourselves stay the same in your head.
[2016-12-31 03:11:41]<BLusk>	Main: My idea was an intelligent player playing a stupid barbarian.
[2016-12-31 03:11:55]<BLusk>	Classic min-max tank stuff.
[2016-12-31 03:12:28]<Capn_Shoe>	BLusk: That was me asking, not Main. And, that would be hilarious. :D
[2016-12-31 03:12:46]<mainstreet>	I approve as well ;)
[2016-12-31 03:13:11]<BLusk>	Ha, I'll whip up both and see what really catches my fancy. :D
[2016-12-31 03:13:16]<Hildyr>	What we could really use in the new game is a dedicated DPSer. Which could be, say, a tibbit psion psychokineticist
[2016-12-31 03:20:52]<Mellow>	Hildyr: if you want to scetch out the barebones of a workable (tibbit) psion, then I'd be happy to go with that. I like the idea of the telepath path and using the Alternative Class Feature (Telepathy) instead of their bonus feat. But I don
[2016-12-31 03:21:06]<Mellow>	But I don't make characters to have high damage output so haven't looked at that option.
[2016-12-31 03:21:33]<Hildyr>	Any psion can spam energy ray, actually
[2016-12-31 03:21:40]<Hildyr>	http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/energyRay.htm
[2016-12-31 03:24:12]<Hildyr>	Actually, if you want to go with a telepath, you could get mind thrust, which is 1d10 per power point (but save negates)
[2016-12-31 03:24:44]<Mellow>	I think as a tibbit, a telepath would be good because it would mean I could communicate with the team without needing to morph.
[2016-12-31 03:25:02]<Vivi>	Plus, then you can be our Aethnet.
[2016-12-31 03:25:20]<Hildyr>	What's this alternative class feature for telepathy, though?
[2016-12-31 03:26:45]<Mellow>	http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20070411a "Telepathic Communication"
[2016-12-31 03:27:31]<Hildyr>	Nice
[2016-12-31 03:28:09]<Hildyr>	Yeah, I think a psion would work better than a bard, excepting some shenanigans like Dragonfire Inspiration to get the damage we need
[2016-12-31 03:33:26]<Mellow>	Hildyr: OK sounds good to me. I haven't made a psionic character before though (though thrallherd has looked interesting) so I'll adjust http://jackpoint.neocities.org/dnd/slinky.htm to be based on psion and if I get chargen questions I might lurk in here during the week on the offchance you're about :)
[2016-12-31 03:34:22]<Hildyr>	I don't usually come in on non-Fridays, but you can add me on Skype

[2017-01-07 03:48:02]* Capn_Ascii (Capn_Ascii@33-08-934-440.gvllcmtk36.res.dyn.suddenlink.net) has joined #trinsic
[2017-01-07 03:48:02]* ChanServ gives channel operator status to Capn_Ascii
[2017-01-07 03:48:13]* Vivi is now known as Cadellin
[2017-01-07 03:48:49]* mainstreet is now known as Miranor
[2017-01-07 03:49:10]* Iethloc is now known as Sheona
[2017-01-07 03:49:42]* You are now known as Nenni_Guenhwyvar
[2017-01-07 04:19:25]<Capn_Ascii> As we join our heroes, all hell is breaking loose! The zombies are advancing on the roadblocks set up by the sherrif's department. The army of orcs and skeletons is engaged in a fierce battle with the local hunting club and that biker gang you managed to piss off earlier. Two National Guard helicopters are dogfighting with a half-dozen pterodactyls. A few blocks down the street, you can see the tarrasque stomping ar
[2017-01-07 04:19:25]<Capn_Ascii> ound, smashing cars.
[2017-01-07 04:20:02]<Capn_Ascii> And there, in the middle of all the chaos, shining like a golden beacon of hope...
[2017-01-07 04:20:58]<Capn_Ascii> ...THE BOOK. Your one ticket to getting your normal lives back! It's sitting on the ledge atop the local movie theater's front sign, seemingly unattended amidst the chaos.
[2017-01-07 04:22:25]<Capn_Ascii> You're currently holed up in a dingy motel room across the intersection from the theater, peeking out of the window through the curtains.
[2017-01-07 04:23:17]* Miranor looks carefully at the road, looking at obstacles from here to THE BOOK
[2017-01-07 04:23:35]<Cadellin> "Who has an invisible flying animal that can go fetch the book?"
[2017-01-07 04:23:39]<Nenni_Guenhwyvar> Nenni sprawls atop a pile of Dungeon (R) magazines, like a dragon mantling over its coveted hoard, his head resting against the DMG absorbing its imagined powers via osmosis. He knows full well that if any of the humans roaming in his territory want access to the books of power (and frequently they do) they will have to pay their cat tax first - hopefully by picking him up and stroking him and then opening a can of fresh food not that cold
[2017-01-07 04:23:39]<Nenni_Guenhwyvar> stuff from yesterday they've kept in the fridge. Eww! It smells funny. But at the very least by patting him before sliding out the issue they're interested in. If they don't pay the cat tax, he will sulk and scowl at them from the bookshelf until they atone. Nenni doesn't forget their ... wait ... is that a cockroach running behind the curtain? Oblivious spring attack!
[2017-01-07 04:24:26]<Nenni_Guenhwyvar> He missed, and curls up disappointed, thinking of going to sleep. Why is everyone looking out the window?

[2017-01-07 04:23:51]<Sheona> That's a lot of text at once
[2017-01-07 04:24:38]<Capn_Ascii> *snrk*
[2017-01-07 04:24:55]<Capn_Ascii> Now that's what I call an establishing character moment. ;)
[2017-01-07 04:26:25]<Capn_Ascii> Yeah, just to refresh me, give me a quick recap of races, genders and classes so I don't get too confused here. I always have this problem when I run a new campaign. >.<
[2017-01-07 04:26:38]<Sheona> Female Human Druid
[2017-01-07 04:26:41]<Nenni_Guenhwyvar> I'm a male psionic cat.
[2017-01-07 04:27:01]<Capn_Ascii> What color cat?
[2017-01-07 04:27:10]<Nenni_Guenhwyvar> (Erudite tibbit, to be precise). Black.
[2017-01-07 04:27:10]<Miranor> Male Elf Factotum
[2017-01-07 04:27:14]<Cadellin> Female human turned into a Male Dwarf...
[2017-01-07 04:27:24]<Cadellin> And Cleric.

[2017-01-02 06:43:27]* mainstreet is now known as mainstreet--AWAY
[2017-01-02 09:10:50]<Mellow> `roll 5d6*6
[2017-01-02 09:10:51]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d6: 4 3 2 4 1  <Total: 14(*6) = 84>
[2017-01-02 09:11:18]<Mellow> Huh - that's not what I wanted.
[2017-01-02 09:11:22]<Intyalle> Hmm?
[2017-01-02 09:11:22]<Mellow> `roll 5d6
[2017-01-02 09:11:22]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d6: 3 1 1 3 4  <Total: 12>
[2017-01-02 09:11:23]<Mellow> `roll 5d6
[2017-01-02 09:11:24]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d6: 5 3 1 1 1  <Total: 11>
[2017-01-02 09:11:24]<Mellow> `roll 5d6
[2017-01-02 09:11:25]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d6: 5 5 5 6 3  <Total: 24>
[2017-01-02 09:11:26]<Mellow> `roll 5d6
[2017-01-02 09:11:26]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d6: 1 3 6 5 3  <Total: 18>
[2017-01-02 09:11:27]<Mellow> `roll 5d6
[2017-01-02 09:11:27]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d6: 2 2 5 4 1  <Total: 14>
[2017-01-02 09:11:28]<Mellow> `roll 5d6
[2017-01-02 09:11:28]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d6: 2 5 1 1 2  <Total: 11>
[2017-01-02 09:11:56]<Mellow> These are for the attributes of my psion for Capn's game. I needed 6x 5d6 drop lowest two. I believe.
[2017-01-02 09:12:34]* Intyalle nods
[2017-01-02 09:13:33]<Mellow> Oh - and reroll 1's: it says so in the topic.
[2017-01-02 09:13:44]<Mellow> `roll 2d6
[2017-01-02 09:13:44]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 2d6: 5 2  <Total: 7>
[2017-01-02 09:13:48]<Mellow> `roll 3d6
[2017-01-02 09:13:48]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 3d6: 5 5 3  <Total: 13>
[2017-01-02 09:13:50]<Intyalle> That's... a lot of rerolls :P
[2017-01-02 09:13:55]<Mellow> Yes!
[2017-01-02 09:14:00]<Mellow> `roll 1d6
[2017-01-02 09:14:01]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 1d6: 1  <Total: 1>
[2017-01-02 09:14:02]<Mellow> `roll 1d6
[2017-01-02 09:14:03]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 1d6: 1  <Total: 1>
[2017-01-02 09:14:04]<Mellow> `roll 1d6
[2017-01-02 09:14:05]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 1d6: 6  <Total: 6>
[2017-01-02 09:14:08]<Mellow> Yes!!!
[2017-01-02 09:14:22]<Mellow> `roll 1d6
[2017-01-02 09:14:22]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 1d6: 5  <Total: 5>
[2017-01-02 09:14:25]<Mellow> `roll 2d6
[2017-01-02 09:14:26]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 2d6: 1 6  <Total: 7>
[2017-01-02 09:14:29]<Mellow> `roll 2d6
[2017-01-02 09:14:29]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 2d6: 5 3  <Total: 8>
[2017-01-02 09:14:56]<Mellow> OK. Now to add things up and assign them. Good good!
[2017-01-02 09:17:14]<Mellow> And hitpoints:
[2017-01-02 09:17:20]<Mellow> `roll 5d4
[2017-01-02 09:17:21]<GameServ> Mellow rolled 5d4: 4 2 4 3 2  <Total: 15>

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

• Chick publications publish urinary tracts with Richard Dawkins-esque attitude to "research":
  • Dark Dungeons
  • Straight Talk on Dungeons & Dragons
  • Should a Christian Play Dungeons & Dragons?
• the Streisand effect
• Dead Alewives Watchtower:
  • Dungeons & dragons: Satan's Game (1996)
  • Dungeons & dragons (animated motion video, missing the introduction)
• Dead Gentlemen Productions:
  • The Gamers
  • The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (on you tube) - it is Guenhwyvar, the cat from this film, that Nenni Guenhwyvar is based on
  • JourneyQuest
• Commercial films:
  • Dungeons & dragons (2000)
  • Dungeons & dragons - Wrath of the Dragon God (2005)
  • Dungeons & dragons - The Book of Vile Darkness (2012)

Appendix 4

• Realms Help:
  • Character builder
  • Feats
  • Skills
  • Skill tricks
  • Magic
• iMarvinTPA

Spellbook archive:
	http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20030504x

Official character sheets:
	http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/charactersheets

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/2h3n0f/illegal_pdfs_and_you/
	Until 1984, it was potentially illegal to record something on a VCR, because you were 'pirating' the television broadcast.
	Until 1999 and RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia, it was potentially illegal to rip your own CD onto an MP3 player.
	Both of those have been determined to be legal Fair Use.
	Based on that, scanning your own copy of the book is Fair Use, under the concept of Format Shifting. Using someone else's scan is dubious,