Welcome to the Redblade 3E helpfile.

Disclaimer
This program is "public beta" freeware. This means the program is provided "as-is", with no guarantees or warrantees whatsoever. Use at your own risk. Rights to the distribution of this program remain with the author. You have the right to distribute the program as freeware. You may distribute this program freely in any format, so long as the program remains intact without modification, and no fee of any kind is charged.

Wizards of the Coast Notice:

THIS PROGRAM IS NOT MADE BY WIZARDS OF THE COAST, AND I AM IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH WIZARDS OF THE COAST. This program requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons(R) Players Handbook, Third Edition, published by Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons(R) and Wizards of the Coast(R) are Registered Trademarks of Wizards of the Coast. You will need the excellent 3E Dungeons and Dragons Core Rulebooks of WoTC to properly use this program. Without them, this program is worthless. I recommend you visit thier website at www.wizards.com/dnd.

Features
Add classes, races, skills, feats, spells, domains, languages and weapons and customise them for your own campaign. It allows you to create a good mix of classes and races to play D&D 3E with. You can generate a complete character in five to ten minutes. What is included:

Full Character generation Creating new Classes Creating new Races Creating new Skills Creating new Feats Creating new Spells Creating new Domains Creating new Languages Creating new Weapons Creating new Items Creating a Character Sheet Support for generating a multiclass character Saving/Loading the Character Exporting the Character to a textfile Charactersheet

What is not included but planned:

Support for the WoTC Class expansion booklets.

Item lab, customise items for your character.

Instructions
Select New Character from the File menu. Fill in all the options either by hand or by clicking the little white dices besides them. When youve completed all the options, click the next button to go to the next page. Continue till youve filled all the pages. Use the buttons to the left for navigating through the pages, this will help you to tweak your character. When finished, use the File menu to save your character or to generate and print out a textfile character sheet. The navigation buttons consist of: General Base: Configure the name, Gender, Race, Alignment and Classes of your Character

Abilities: Roll your characters ability scores with one of several roll methods, or modify them by hand. Skills: Select skills for the currently selected class Feats: Select feats for the currently selected class Speech: Select the languages of your character. Class: View and select special abilities for your class, if any. Shop: View your characters gold, buy items for your character (or take them for free). Equip: Allows you to equip items (armors, weapons), and specify how you plan to wield your weapons.

Magic Magic: Select which schools of magic you want to specialise in, and which domains you know for the current class. Spells: Select the spells your character knows for the current class. Role-play Basic: Describes your characters appearance, traits and disabilities.

History: Describes your characters history. Goals: Describes your characters goals in life.

Some notes on rules used

I try to use the PHB rules wherever possible. Here and there you will see extensions into the DMG rules (like the dice rolling methods). Ive also used the WoTC FAQ to resolve several issues. I recommend you download the FAQ, since I used several tables from it for monk speeds and attacks dependant on character size. Note that there may be some obscure rules that I havent noticed, and its quite possible Ive interpreted some rules incorrectly. If you notice any errors please send me an email so I can correct the problem! :)

Greetings

I would like to thank Gerard Pel, Edwin Koster, Niels Fuit, Ruben Fuit, Patrick, Rob, Dennis, Johan and many other players for all the insane hours playing D&D. ;) I send greetings to all the folks at www.dark-legacy.com, and the ultra-cuddly people at www.forbidden-realms.com (*dances around the Megan*). I also greet all the people from the wizard noteboards that help comment on the first version, and an especially big thanks goes to Pax!/Cwylric for the many bugs he located! Be sure to check out his Paragon (a d20 superhero game) at www.rpghoard.com (just search for Paragon) :).

Finally
I'm waiting for requests to add! :) You can contact me by emailing daan@artefact.nl. The latest version of redblade, if any, can be downloaded from http://www.dark-legacy/redblade3e