Character Creation

@testlum - Jacky the halfling fighter/thief looks good. A couple of things I noticed:

1. To be able to use your thief abilities, you're restricted to armour that thieves are permitted to wear, i.e. leather or studded leather. So your padded gambeson is preventing you from thieving.

2. (And this applies to everyone) - please add somewhere on your character sheet your current movement rate. This will be a factor of your strength encumbrance adjustment, the armour you're wearing and the equipment you're carrying. So, in Jacky's case, with no strength adjustment, and because he's a halfling carrying 81.5 lbs, your movement rate will be 30'.

(On a separate note, that's very slow! It's up to the party of course as to how fast they want to move around the dungeon, but remember the slower your movement, the more you're exposed to the risks of wandering monsters per area of dungeon explored).

@Stalker05 - Vasco the Thorcin thief also looks good. Same comment about encumbrance and movement. In Vasco's case, he has a +20 lb encumbrance bonus due to his strength, which means his encumbrance thresholds are:

- Up to 55 lbs = 120 ft/round.
- 56-90 lbs = 90 ft/round.
- 91-125 lbs = 60 ft/round.
- 126-170 lbs = 30 ft/round.

So with leather armour and an encumbrance of 38.5, Vasco moves at 120 ft/round.

(But then it could be argued he is underequipped - he'll need to find some food from somewhere, and I wouldn't bank on the halfling sharing!).

You might need to do some cross-party balancing of both equipment carried and funds once everyone has got the basic details of their characters locked down.

Great. A few comments:

1. Please pick a human subculture.
2. I wouldn't invest too much time in crafting your background (unless you want to, of course). Old school characters generally emerge organically during play rather than out of some pre-scripted backstory.

Some nice edits to the character sheet template!

@WhiteDwarf - thanks for Grimidek Granite the dwarf cleric.

Movement will be ...

- Up to 55 lbs = 90 ft/round.
- 56-90 lbs = 60 ft/round.
- 91-125 lbs = 30 ft/round.
- 126-170 lbs = 30 ft/round.

Again, like Vasco, you might want to flesh out his equipment list somewhat.

We'll discuss the setting's deities once we've got all the characters rolled up so that you can select an appropriate one (there are rather a lot of them!).

In terms of alignment, whilst the choice is yours of course, I think you'll find playing a lawful good character in Arden Vul quite challenging. This is definitely not a "heroes saving the day/town/world" type of adventure. The factional politics of Arden Vul are extremely "grey" and fluid, with each of the major power bases acting largely in their own self-interest. That's not to say that it might not be fun to play a lawful good character in such a situation ... I just wanted you to be aware that it will come with some challenges that you don't typically find in more classically heroic fantasy settings.

A stick of incense is 1 GP (from AD&D 1E Players Handbook).

Also, is this avatar too faint?

Thank you. How about now?

To be honest, I don't fully understand the reasoning behind this rule. I guess it's asking you to make a choice between bein a generalist fighter who is competent with a broad range of weapons (which has an advantage in terms of increased access to magic weapons for example), or a specialist fighter who can use a narrower range of weapons more effectively. On that basis, I'll say that if you go down the specialisation route, you can put future proficiency gains into specialisations.

Cool! What's the mule called?

(And yes, use the 1E prices provided by Avraham for saddle bags, etc.)