>From this discussion I take it the project is still in the initial lets all agree on the base rule set phase... With that in mind.... I would have to agree with Matt's general concept. I always understood it as All dragareans are Elves. Yet bred with some sort of relation to the species the house is named after. The Selection process then would be: Dragarean -> House How would easteners work in this model though, I wonder???? And can they buy their way into a house as Vlad did? Easterner -> ?? (Guild, Tribe, ????) I could definitely see Witch/Warlock being one of the options though since we have that as how Vlad is first presented to us in the books... So I would equate that to D&D where you can specialize a character in certain skills, ie a sub-class such as how palladins get inherent advanced skills for their specialty. undead-hunters get access to specific skills such as turn-undead straight of the bat. In this way I could see Dragon lords getting advanced sword skills right at level 1, Jehreg (sp) would get theive's skill and so on... Then it becomes up to the player to choose the direction of specialty after that. Well that is alot to chew on right of the bat that is for sure... any comments?? > If anyone is familiar with the Oriental Adventures > expansion of D & D, I'd suggest doing something like > that. Not an actual class for every House, but skills > that are always class skills for them and a feat that > they automatically agin, or something along those > lines. Alternately, you could simply have different > lists of bonus feats for each House to take in their > individual classes. > > > --- Mark Englehart <mark_englehart at cox.net> wrote: > > Okay, > > That now makes four of us who are interested in > > continuing this topic. I'd > > say that's enough to start a dialogue. > > > > Klaas has suggested using the D20 rules, > > interestingly enough, I had much > > the same idea. A couple of thoughts: > > > > Each House should be it's own Race (naturally). > > I've bounced around > > different ideas for stat modifiers, but haven't been > > able to come up with > > anything balanced. > > > > I've also thought each House should also be its own > > Class: sort of a > > specialized Expert for each; so Orca would have > > sailing and banking skills > > available, Jhegaala merchant skills, etc. Each would > > also have a small > > selection of spells (level 3 and below) available. > > > > Other Classes would be available as well: Fighter, > > Sorcerer, Rogue, Witch, > > for more advanced development. There would also be > > Prestige Classes (I'm > > thinking 17 for some reason). Multi-class > > characters would be common among > > Dragaerans (hey, they are elves after all). > > > > I don't have a lot of experience with the D20 > > system, so I don't know how > > practical that would be. > > > > That's enough for now. Any thoughts? > > > > Mark > > At 06:23 PM 3/8/2004 +0000, abcmm at att.net wrote: > > >To ALL: > > > > > >I am new to this list and am wondering how the > > project is going? The site > > >where I joined this list appears to have some > > really old dates and no > > >recent updates. Any information would be > > appreciated! > > > > > >Thanks! > > >Turn&Burn > > > > > > > ===== > There are things between things, there are interstitial spaces, and I dwell > among them comfortably. I am neither one thing nor the other, not flesh nor > fowl nor good red herring. I am he that thrives on dreams- I am that merry > wanderer of the night. > > http://livejournal.com/users/mattador > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com