I would at least suggest making up a character. See how you like the character. Wrtiting you out if we were in the middle of something would not be hard. I would just Kill your character.

  The magic is not that hard. It just costs more Skill points to be come a Spellcaster and the Spells are not as powerful at low level. I had to do something to set it apart from from the non Spell Casters to make it even and still fair. Otherwise they would be hurling massive destructive  Fireballs at the Goblin Hoard while while the Fighter type was still running at them with a club. It would all balance out.

  Spells are all available and Power Points will be set. damage starts at 1d4 and increases per level unless you specialize in the Spell. Think of it as a Specialist Wizard. Use an inventing point at 1st level and it become 1d6. Stay alive to 2nd level and it is 1d8. You gain 1 die category with each level on all your spells. You can use an inventing point to become more proficient in any ONE spell as many times as you want and also increase the die value each time. basically the Spellcaster will spend points on Spells and learning Spell magic instead of boosting their stats. I thought this made it the closest to an Old Style D&D 2nd Edition game.

  Hey I could always use a Rogue type too. That type is actually very important to the story. Still waiting to hear from Marshall Strong.

Either that or I could have his Fairy Godmother wisk him away to Happy Land.

I'll see what I can do.

I enjoyed character creation, and found the setting background you gave us interesting. I didn't finish getting all my equipment, as I didn't get a chance to ask you how you were handling armor. I know John's character has chain mail, but as a Ranger, I was thinking more along the lines of banded/scale male, unless that's too detailed, in which place I'd just go with leather (which would be more typical of a yeoman archer type)

Actually the whole reason I put this out as a post was to get feedback from everyone, Player/GM or Player. initially I had ststed there were some things I still needed to work out like Magic Spells and Armor to make them work the way I wanted them to and the way I thought I could have more "realism".

Spell magic is learned unless a percentile dice is rolled under 5% when the character chooses to be a Spellcaster. If they roll under the 5% it becomes innate for some special reason. I think it worked out fine the way we did it at the end. The skills costing 2 points was a pretty good mesh and left the character with base skills and not too much else besides the Spellcasting ability.

All in All I was happy with the three characters. I will try and get the points for Armor up this weekend.

Ok,  cool.   When ever someone runs a V&V game that I play in, I am overly concerened with becoming a "backseat driver".

Wealth Points

OK. I am making a change. Everyone who used Wealth points when making a character Friday, put them back to 9. Since I am currently working on Armor I thought about what I charged for equipment. I will be using John's wealth point system to keep it easy but I will change it a bit. Instead of 9 it may be 900 or 9000. Depending on what I work out later. I did not think it was fair to charge the same amount for a Long Sword as it was for a Dagger.

Armor:

Leather: 20 ADR/400WP

Studded Leather: 30 ADR/600WP

Ring Mail: 30 ADR/600WP

Scale Mail: 40 ADR/800WP

Chain Mail: 50 ADR/1000WP

Banded Mail: 60 ADR/12,000WP

Splint Mail: 60 ADR/12,000WP

Plate Mail: 70 ADR/14,000WP

Field Plate: 80 ADR/16,000WP

Full Plate: 90 ADR/18,000WP

There can be some variations on these ratings depending on Quality or even the type of Metal used. Consider the rates above as the norm. Other combinations may also be created for Pieces. The Ilyrians for example tend toward more Breast Plates, Bracers and Leg Gaurds instead of heavier armor.

I just finished the chart with costs. I will probably edit the post above with those. Basically Chain mail down will include the extra rolling and anything above will include the invulnerability. I am looking at anyhting with actual large pieces of solid metal attached to have the invulnerability. Also those costs for that type of Armor will be greatly increased. Double the cost of the ADR times 10 to include material and labor where as the other armors will be double the costs of the ADR for the same effect. Materails are expensive and skilled craftsmen are very hard to come by.

What if Pavillion ( Paul's wizard) was to put on chain mail and carry a longsword?

Makes sense.   So I guess a guy wanting to be a thief CAN where full plate, but if he is going to try to pick pockets or move silently, he is going to suffer on his die roll for it.   But there is no fiat that says he, for some strange rule, just can not put it on ever!  I hate that kind of stuff.

I would probably have a staff, so guessing like 1d6 for that?

I believe it was "hold being" and "firebolt".

I think a protection spell would be nice to have, so "shield being" which can also be used on other players at the same time.

Another attack spell woiuld be frostbolt (ice attack but with slowing effects as well).

Hopefully that works?

Makes sense that he would have some spells.  I thought you said he was trained by some school or some such, so he would have access to some common spells.  Nothing major.  But about four very common beginer spells sounds good.

I always thought it odd that in most fantasy games,  all the spells have something to do with combat.  I would think that a real wizard would have a few spells just to make his life easier.  Like  clean apartment,   mend funiture, instant dress,  and predict lottery ticket numbers.

Since I got some feedback last night after the gaming session with John i would ask that anyone who made a character already which is everyone post the character sheet here so I can get a look. I do not remember everyone's specifics and I know I still have to finish a few characters. If there are questions just PM me. i will be working on prepping the first adventure over the next month or two.

Jimmy, it's probably best to count me out for most of these sessions. My friday nights won't be clear until the summer time.  Apologies.