Character Creation Rules & Replacement Characters

Replacement Characters

Penalties:
- Replacement characters suffer a non-cumulative –3 penalty to all d20 rolls; this penalty will be removed upon surviving two full (start to finish) sessions.
- In the case of a party wipe, the d20 penalty will be waived.
- The starting value of a replacement character's gear is determined by a floating percentage of 'average wealth by level' (see the Core Rulebook, pg. 399).
---- A player's variable percentage decays with each new character (each death results in a lower percentage of WBL, and thus less gear).
---- However, through surviving full sessions, the variable percentage rises.
---- There are both maximum and minimum percentage caps.
- Replacement gear is capped at 50% of their starting gold for a single piece and 25% for all other items.

Lock-Out:
- To prevent musical characters, with simply a name change on the sheet, these measures are in place:
---- The race and class options of the previous three characters for a given player are locked out.
---- If your first PC is a Dwarf – Fighter, Aegis, Soulknife, your next character cannot be Dwarven or take those classes.
---- If your next PC is an Elf – Wizard, Rogue, Arcane Trickster, that is valid since the Race and Classes differ from the first PC.
---- The third PC cannot be a Dwarven – Barbarian, because the race is still locked out, but a Half-Orc – Barbarian works.
---- The fourth PC suffers the lockout of the previous three builds, so cannot be a Dwarf, Elf, or Half-Orc... or an Aegis, Arcane Trickster, Barbarian, Fighter, Rogue, Soulknife, or Wizard.
---- The fifth PC is only subject to the lockout of the previous three, so cannot be an Elf, Half-Orc, or whatever the 4th PC race was, and cannot share the classes of the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th PCs either, however, the options taken by the 1st PC are no longer barred.
- There are 7 race options, and up to 3 of these may be locked out at one time, if you go through enough characters.
- There are 68 base classes, and 130 prestige classes (discounting barred classes, due to alignments restrictions), so a lot of options... However the more you multiclass the larger your lockout will be.

Other Considerations:
- If a LV 01-02 replacement can be made in 5 minutes, ie. basic choices – which you know are valid (enough BAB for your feat, etc..) they can be made at the table.
- At LV 3+, or any PCs that takes over 5 minutes, must be made between sessions.
- If a PC survives their first session, but you determine the style of play or their mechanic doesn't work like you thought, or simply that it is not fun, they can be replaced between sessions without incurring the 'Penalty' section, but their choices do incur the 'Lock-Out' penalty at the same tier as the current character.