New campaign rules 1

 

D&D the new game

Any character race that is published in a book . . . a few caveats, I am not ready for robots.  And no flying races because Flying is such a huge advantage anytime and at first level it is game breaking.   Any class if it is published in a standard book.

There will be NO FEATS except in character creation, only ability score increases.  ONLY HUMANS get a feat at first level.  Sharpshooter and Great Weapon Master are not available.

I will be deflating the economy of the campaign, all prices will be 1/10 the listed prices in the player’s handbook, i.e. I will use silver in place of gold, copper in place of silver and copper bits in place of copper (10 bits is a copper).  Gold will be present but will be rarer just like platinum and platinum will also still exist, but even rarer.  The exception is magic items, they are priced in gold if you buy them, silver if you sell them.

Experience will be calculated for all present characters for each session, miss a session, miss experience.  Same with money.  You get experience from defeating monsters (killing, subduing, or reasoning with them), passing skill challenges and by getting wealth.  Experience for levels will be different from 5e. You will get 1xp for every 1sp that make/find/extort.  You will get experience from magic items at 1/10 their value, but can sell them for 1/10 their value, but will only get the one experience once, so essentially, you get experience for finding loot.

With your money that you will have you will be able to buy many magical items, but these will never give you experience.  You could invest your money and build a town, taxes are calculated and collected every month and you will get experience from this money.  I suggest you work collectively.  You can also sell monster body parts for money and get more experience.  Potentially, you might even decide to hire yourself out as a mercenary company and all earnings will give you experience.

Downtime

If we end a session in a town, every day between sessions is one day in game.  For example, if we are end a session in a town and we don’t meet for 14 days, then the world advances 14 days.  If we don’t meet for a month, then a month passes.  This means a few things: 1) things will happen between adventures, 2) advancement will not be breakneck but occur over months and years, 3) if you want to go to another town to look for magic items you can go there and return before the adventure picks up again.  4) if you are building a town, it will grow between sessions and you will acquire tax moneys, and gain experience too.  if you have a trade, you can ply your trade and earn money too.  5) Monster populations will repopulate too.  6) you have the option of saying at the end of a session, “Let’s go back to town.” and if it is possible, you do, your characters find the quickest safest route and start the next session rested with replenished simple gear when the next session begins.  Missing characters are not there. 

Welcome to D&D Capitalist Edition.

 

player/level	Cumulative XP
2250	2250
4500	6750
13500	20250
28500	48750
56250	105000
67500	172500
82500	255000
105000	360000
120000	480000
157500	637500
112500	750000
150000	900000
150000	1050000
187500	1237500
225000	1462500
225000	1687500
300000	1987500
300000	2287500
375000	2662500
375000	3037500
450000	3487500
450000	3937500
525000	4462500
525000	4987500
600000	5587500
600000	6187500
675000	6862500
675000	7537500
750000	8287500
750000	9037500

 

Additional rules

Improved Critical:  Max + roll

Heroic Hit points for level gain:  roll or average which ever is greater

Advanced Initiative:  roll for initiative before combat

Morale on NPCs:  when NPCs encounter something distressing,  like high level magic, the execution of their leader . . . etc. they need to fail a wis save to stay and fight.  Wise people know when to cut their losses.

Alignment fix

Morality table			Check Considerations negative	Check Considerations positive
	Compassion	how good you are			Wisdom Check
	0	Psychopathic	nothing, you could kill puppies	doing anything for anyone with no benefit for yourself
	1	Jaded	Murder	Helping someone outside your group/being first to offer to help your friends
	2	Average	Causing harm to others	Offering to help strangers for free
	3	Morale	Stealing from others	Sacificing yourself for a stranger
	4	Martyr	telling a lie about another person	nothing
	Patience	how you control yourself			Intelligence Check
	0	Unpredicable	nothing, you change your mind with every breath	Making any decision for yourself
	1	Impulsive	Breaking an Oath	promising to help a friend
	2	Average	Breaking your word with a Stranger	promising to help a stranger
	3	Thoughtful	Breaking your word with a friend	Agreeing to go on a quest
	4	Obstinant	changing your way of life/direction/your path	Nothing
	Righteousness	respect of the laws			Charisma Check
	0	You know what the laws says but you choose to do otherwise	you don't care	doing the right thing with a friend or family member (someone close)
	1	laws are guidelines, you can pick and choose what you follow	doing wrong to a friend or family member	Doing the right thing with a stranger
	2	You mostly follow the laws but sometimes the laws are impede living	Doing wrong to a stranger	Informing on someone who breaks the laws
	3	it is okay to bend some laws as long as you follow the rest	Failing inform on someone who breaks the laws in your presence	Acting when someone breaks the laws
	4	you instinctfully follow all the rules, otherwise there would be anarchy	Failing to act when someone breaks the law in your presence	you are a Scorian
	Willpower	This is a measure of your ability to impose your will on the world around you.	When a roll is important to you, you may use a temporary willpower point to gain advantage on the roll	you will gain one temporary willpower back every day minimum, when you get inspiration from any source
		Your Willpower score is the total of your Compassion, Patience, and Righteousness Scores	Willpower is affected by your actions, that is, your Compassion, Patience, and Righteousness score will change over the course of game play	you can spend a temporary willpower succeed at a Morality check that you failed.  If you have no Temporary Willpower left, you must abide by the result of the check
		every Hero (Player Character) starts game play with 5 points to distribute to Three scores.  You can have a 4,1,0 a 2,2,1 or anything.  You will have a 5 in Willpower	if you override your morality 5-(your current level time) times your morality level will change in that direction.  It is hard to climb up, but easy to fall!	example, I want to murder this captive, because murder is cool and you fail your compassion check, your subconscious will say that’s wrong and stop you, but you can spend a temporary willpower and say but it is cool and you do so