FRC Rules Updates

[DM Hawk]

Hail Cormyrians!

This is establishing a repository thread to note updates to the FRC Server and Forum rules, similar to our module update notes.

Feb 21, 2019 16:09:27 GMT -5 Dicey said:

The Forgotten Realms: Cormyr DM team has determined that as of this announcement, the Red Dragon Disciple prestige class will require DM team approval to take. This will expand the list of prestige classes requiring application to Red Dragon Disciple, Purple Dragon Knight, Shadowdancer, Shifter, and Red Wizard.

Note that Dragon Disciples existing prior to this announcement will not be affected and need not submit an application. Characters that have not yet taken Dragon Disciple levels, but intended to in the future, will need to submit the Prestige Class Application found here:

frc.proboards.com/post/316883/thread

Additional considerations are possible for characters who were actively pursuing, or close to achieving, the Dragon Disciple class prior to this announcement. Submit an application to a member of the team as soon as possible if you believe this pertains to your active character.

Additional information regarding Prestige Classes on Forgotten Realms: Cormyr is available here:

frc.proboards.com/thread/29394/server-rule-expanded-prestige-classes

[DM Hawk]

Hail Cormyrians!

The DM Team has revisited FRC's Policy for clerics going through a change of faith.

The historic policy required clerics changing their faith and needing adjustments to domains and alignment to restart their characters at first level. This policy was found to be too strict and not consistently applied over time.

We have adopted the below revision to more appropriately reflect the severity of a specific cleric's change of faith and to be consistently applied going forward.

Clerics may change their faith but this is a significant choice. A cleric’s faith and their patron’s ethos are central aspects of the character. The differences between the old and new faiths will drive the severity of conversion.

The severity is measured by adjustments needed to minimally satisfy alignment and cleric domains required by the new faith plus additional cost for the toll taken by this fundamental change, as follows:

- 20% cleric levels to go through a change of faith conversion.

- 20% cleric levels if one Domain is required to change.

- 20% cleric levels if another Domain is required to change.

- 20% cleric levels if an alignment change on the good / evil axis is required.

- 20% cleric levels if an alignment change on the law / chaos axis is required.

The total percentage will be applied to the character’s cleric levels to reflect difficulty and cost of conversion, with any fractions rounded down in favor of the character.

Players of clerics changing faith will need to coordinate with a DM to adjust the character and reflect the conversion to the new faith.

Please ask a DM if there are any questions about a cleric's change of faith or share your question in the DM Q&A section here:

frc.proboards.com/board/27/dm-answers



Thank you,
The FRC Staff

[DM Hawk]

Hail Cormyrians!

FRC has implemented a Fallen Status system for Barbarians, Clerics, Druids, and Paladins to better align with PNP.

frc.proboards.com/thread/32689/fallen-status-divine-change-tokens

To update our rules for this, our Character Creation Rules are being revised by the following:

frc.proboards.com/thread/29392/server-expanded-character-creation-rules



7. Barbarian Alignment - Barbarians begin play with a restriction against Lawful Alignment. Should a Barbarian character shift to a Lawful Alignment later in their career they may lose their ability to rage by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Lawful character may not advance as a Barbarian. This restriction can be removed if the Barbarian coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns a Non-Lawful alignment shift. See Fallen Status.



8. Cleric Patron Deities, Alignment, Domains, and Atonement - Clerics must have a deity that is native to the Forgotten Realms setting. Generally, a cleric's alignment can only be one step from their deity's alignment. For example, the deity Bane is Lawful Evil and a cleric of Bane can only be Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, or Lawful Neutral. If playing a cleric, please see the following link to read further and note exceptions.

frc.proboards.com/post/20339/thread

Clerics must also have the correct domains for their selected deity. If playing a cleric, a list of pantheons with deities, alignments, and domains usable on FRC may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/post/316873/thread

Additionally, players may request approval from the DM Team to play a cleric having a fiendish lord as their patron. The virtuous Celestial Paragons do not desire mortal worshipers and do not have clerics on the Prime Material Plane. Please contact a DM for more information if needed.

Clerics who change their faith or act in ways opposed to their god’s alignment or purposes may lose access to their divine abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Cleric may not advance further as a Cleric. These restrictions can be removed if the Cleric coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.



9. Druid and Ranger Patron Deities and Druid Atonement - Druids and Rangers must have a patron deity to cast spells. Druids must follow a nature deity, but Rangers do not. If needed, a list of nature deities usable on FRC may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/post/316867/thread

A Druid who changes their faith, ceases to revere nature, changes to a prohibited alignment, or teaches the Druidic language to a Non-Druid may lose access to their divine and nature abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Druid may not advance further as a Druid. These restrictions can be removed if the Druid coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.



11. Paladin Orders & Multi-classing, Falling from Grace, and Atonement - All Paladins in the Forgotten Realms are devoted to a patron deity having Lawful Good, Neutral Good, or Lawful Neutral alignment. The Chaotic Good goddess Sune Firehair is the exception as she also has paladins among her followers.

Paladin characters may not take the Blackguard prestige class. Should you wish for your Paladin to Fall from Grace, you must contact a DM.

A paladin who changes their faith, ceases to be lawful good, who willfully commits an evil act, or who grossly violates the code of conduct may lose access to their divine abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Paladin may not advance further as a Paladin. These restrictions can be removed if the Paladin coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.

A Paladin is not required to belong to a specific Paladin Order on FRC but a Paladin must belong to a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing to multi-class within the allowances of the Order. Paladins who do not belong to a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing may not multi-class freely. However a Paladin without a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing may cease advancing as a Paladin permanently and opt to take other classes going forward. Players making this decision should notify the DM Team and advise the character's current class levels.

If you play a Paladin who belongs to a Paladin Order and decide to leave the order please notify the DM Team of your decision and your character's current class levels.

FRC Player Character Paladins belonging to a Paladin Order may multi-class according to the allowances of the Order on this list:

frc.proboards.com/post/316871/thread

This is not an exhaustive list of all the Paladin Orders in the Forgotten Realms, but other orders than those listed do not allow multi-classing.

[DM Maleficent's Kiss]

11/18/2021 -

Added clarification to Rule 9 specifically "Ninja-Looting"

Also to Rule 9 added "Free XP Gains"

[DM Hawk]

Hail Cormyrians! With the introduction of Instance Timers in the recent server update, FRC's Rule 10 has been revised.

frc.proboards.com/post/373658/thread

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10. Do not Power Level or Farm - Power Leveling and Farming are not acceptable on FRC.

"Power Leveling" is defined as a higher level character taking a lower level character into places they couldn't survive on their own in order to level faster. A higher level character should not be taking a lower level character into places where they would die just stepping in.

Characters in a party with members more than 10 levels apart may adventure together for roleplay but will not receive XP while partied and may not loot from stationary loot containers. We ask that you pick up loot dropped by monsters and you may use whatever you find on them, including keys to gain access to other areas and quest items to earn a quest reward. You may not loot chests, bones, cabinets, lockers, armor stands and anything else you find on your travels containing loot drops, except drops from monsters/encounters. We refer to this as The 10 Level Rule.

"Farming" is defined as visiting the same area or encounters over and over again waiting for spawns and loot. It can also mean going around in a circle of certain spots/areas over and over again in a pattern. Another form of farming is going to areas with little or no risk when encountering the easier creatures.

Take time in between dungeons before revisiting. Here is the minimum set amount of time before one can revisit a dungeon to not violate the farming rule:

Level Dependent Outline for Visits (real life time)
Character levels 1 through 5 - 1 visit per day
Character levels 6 through 40 - 1 visit every 7 days. We refer to this as The Seven Day Rule.

The only recognized exemptions to this rule include:

- Revisiting an area while playing an alternate character.

- Scouting the area for a party that intends to enter the area immediately. For example, checking the cave entrance to make sure the party wont be ambushed.

- The attempted rescue of a slain character/party with the express purpose of retrieving the fallen and bringing them to safety. When revisiting an area for a rescue one should only fight monsters in the path of reaching the characters in need of rescue and no loot containers should be accessed.

- Travel through an outdoor area with the purpose of getting to the next transition point to continue on a journey to a further destination. For example, taking the most direct route through an area from transition A to transition B. This means not hitting all the spawns in the area beyond the most direct route.

- The previous visit was during a DM run event which brought the character(s) to the area.

Revision:

10. Do not Power Level or Farm - Power Leveling and Farming are not acceptable on FRC.

"Power Leveling" is defined as a higher level character taking a lower level character into places they couldn't survive on their own in order to level faster. A higher level character should not be taking a lower level character into places where they would die just stepping in.

Characters in a party with members more than 10 levels apart may adventure together for roleplay but will not receive XP while partied and may not loot from stationary loot containers. We ask that you pick up loot dropped by monsters and you may use whatever you find on them, including keys to gain access to other areas and quest items to earn a quest reward. You may not loot chests, bones, cabinets, lockers, armor stands and anything else you find on your travels containing loot drops, except drops from monsters/encounters. We refer to this as The 10 Level Rule.

"Farming" is defined as going to areas with little or no risk when encountering the easier creatures. For the same reason the dungeons inside the town of Greatgaunt cap at level 6, we encourage players to leave behind adventure areas that no longer present any risk in favor of areas that present a challenge for your character.

The only recognized exemptions to this are:

- The attempted rescue of a slain character/party with the express purpose of retrieving the fallen and bringing them to safety. When visiting a lower level area for a rescue one should only fight monsters in the path of reaching the characters in need of rescue and no loot containers should be accessed.

- Travel through an outdoor area with the purpose of getting to the next transition point to continue on a journey to a further destination. For example, taking the most direct route through an area from transition A to transition B. This means not hitting all the spawns in the area beyond the most direct route.

- Accessing the area as part of a DM or EDM Event

[DM Hawk]

Hail Cormyrians!

Server Rule 21 Expanded - Character Creation Rules has been updated for Alignment and Patron Deities as included in the New Character Experience rolled out previously.

frc.proboards.com/post/373658/thread

frc.proboards.com/thread/36231/new-character-creation-faith-selection



Previous version:

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FRC Character Creation Rules

The following character creation rules are in place to help maintain the immersive roleplay quality of the FRC server setting.



1. Place of Origin - All FRC Player Characters should be from the Material Plane and from Toril, the planet central to the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.



2. Character Race - Only standard races and sub-races are valid and accepted on FRC. Creating a character having a sub-race that is not listed below will result in remaking the character. Races and sub-races allowed include:

Human - Bedine, Calishite, Chondathan, Chultan, Damaran, Halruuan, Illuskan, Kara'Turan, Maztican, Mulan, Rashemi, Shou, Tethyrian, and other human ethnicities.

Dwarf - Gold Dwarf, Shield Dwarf

Elf - Moon Elf, Sun Elf, Wild Elf, Wood Elf

Gnome - Rock Gnome

Halfling - Lightfoot, Strongheart

Half-Elf - Human and Moon Elf, Sun Elf, Wild Elf, or Wood Elf descent

Half-Orc



3. Social Status and Titles - At creation FRC Player Characters should be considered common born. Do not give your character any type of noble status or title. For example "Sir", "Lady", "Lord", etc.



4. Character Names - FRC Player Characters may not have the names of characters from existing fact or fiction, including historical figures or characters appearing in video or print media. Likewise, characters should not have names that are variations in spelling on any of the disallowed names, nor should they have names that are phonetically similar to expressions or phrases.



5. Character Heads and Skin Tones - Do not select a head with horns or with exaggerated features not applicable to your character's race. Choose a normal skin tone for your character's race. Normal can vary by race. For example, there should be no purple humans, or bright green elves, etc.



6. Ability Scores - Players may assign the ability scores for their characters as they wish, but the scores must be roleplayed. Ability scores below 10 mean the character is less than average in that attribute and the smaller the number the more deficient that attribute becomes. Characters with an Intelligence less than 10 cannot read or write and have trouble speaking properly. Characters with a Charisma less than 10 are less attractive or influential in some significant way, smell worse, etc.



7. Barbarian Alignment - Barbarians begin play with a restriction against Lawful Alignment. Should a Barbarian character shift to a Lawful Alignment later in their career they may lose their ability to rage by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Lawful character may not advance as a Barbarian. This restriction can be removed if the Barbarian coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns a Non-Lawful alignment shift. See Fallen Status.



8. Cleric Patron Deities, Alignment, Domains, and Atonement - Clerics must have a deity that is native to the Forgotten Realms setting. Generally, a cleric's alignment can only be one step from their deity's alignment. For example, the deity Bane is Lawful Evil and a cleric of Bane can only be Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, or Lawful Neutral. If playing a cleric, please see the following link to read further and note exceptions.

frc.proboards.com/post/20339/thread

Clerics must also have the correct domains for their selected deity. If playing a cleric, a list of pantheons with deities, alignments, and domains usable on FRC may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/post/316873/thread

Additionally, players may request approval from the DM Team to play a cleric having a fiendish lord as their patron. The virtuous Celestial Paragons do not desire mortal worshipers and do not have clerics on the Prime Material Plane. Please contact a DM for more information if needed.

Clerics who change their faith or act in ways opposed to their god’s alignment or purposes may lose access to their divine abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Cleric may not advance further as a Cleric. These restrictions can be removed if the Cleric coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.



9. Druid & Ranger Patron Deities and Druid Atonement - Druids and Rangers must have a patron deity to cast spells. Druids must follow a nature deity, but Rangers do not. If needed, a list of nature deities usable on FRC may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/post/316867/thread

A Druid who changes their faith, ceases to revere nature, changes to a prohibited alignment, or teaches the Druidic language to a Non-Druid may lose access to their divine and nature abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Druid may not advance further as a Druid. These restrictions can be removed if the Druid coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.



10. Monk Orders and Multi-classing - A Monk is not required to belong to a Monastic Order on FRC but a Monk must belong to a Monastic Order to multi-class within the allowances of the Order. Monks who do not belong to a Monastic Order may not multi-class freely. However a Monk without a Monastic Order may cease advancing as a Monk permanently and opt to take other classes going forward. Players making this decision should notify the DM Team and advise the character's current class levels.

If you play a Monk who belongs to a Monastic Order and decide to leave the order please notify the DM Team of your decision and your character's current class levels.

FRC Player Character Monks belonging to a Monastic Order may multi-class according to the allowances of the Order on this list:

frc.proboards.com/post/316868/thread



11. Paladin Orders & Multi-classing, Falling from Grace, and Atonement - All Paladins in the Forgotten Realms are devoted to a patron deity having Lawful Good, Neutral Good, or Lawful Neutral alignment. The Chaotic Good goddess Sune Firehair is the exception as she also has paladins among her followers.

Paladin characters may not take the Blackguard prestige class. Should you wish for your Paladin to Fall from Grace, you must contact a DM.

A paladin who changes their faith, ceases to be lawful good, who willfully commits an evil act, or who grossly violates the code of conduct may lose access to their divine abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Paladin may not advance further as a Paladin. These restrictions can be removed if the Paladin coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.

A Paladin is not required to belong to a specific Paladin Order on FRC but a Paladin must belong to a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing to multi-class within the allowances of the Order. Paladins who do not belong to a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing may not multi-class freely. However a Paladin without a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing may cease advancing as a Paladin permanently and opt to take other classes going forward. Players making this decision should notify the DM Team and advise the character's current class levels.

If you play a Paladin who belongs to a Paladin Order and decide to leave the order please notify the DM Team of your decision and your character's current class levels.

FRC Player Character Paladins belonging to a Paladin Order may multi-class according to the allowances of the Order on this list:

frc.proboards.com/post/316871/thread

This is not an exhaustive list of all the Paladin Orders in the Forgotten Realms, but other orders than those listed do not allow multi-classing.



12. Disallowed Multi-class Combinations - The following multi-class combinations are not allowed on FRC.

- Paladin/Sorcerer

- Paladin/Blackguard

- Blackguard/Sorcerer

- Monk/Druid



13. Disallowed Feat - The Devastating Critical Feat is not allowed on FRC.



FRC's Lore of the Lands section has a trove of information that may be of interest to FRC Players of characters of all types. The FRC Lore of the Lands section may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/board/73/lore-lands


Please ask a DM if there are any questions about FRC Character Creation Rules or share your question in the DM Q&A section here:

frc.proboards.com/board/27/dm-answers



Thank you,
The FRC Staff

Revision:

SPOILER: Click to show

FRC Character Creation Rules

The following character creation rules are in place to help maintain the immersive roleplay quality of the FRC server setting.



1. Place of Origin - All FRC Player Characters should be from the Material Plane and from Toril, the planet central to the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting.



2. Character Race - Only standard races and sub-races are valid and accepted on FRC. Creating a character having a sub-race that is not listed below will result in remaking the character. Races and sub-races allowed include:

Human - Bedine, Calishite, Chondathan, Chultan, Damaran, Halruuan, Illuskan, Kara'Turan, Maztican, Mulan, Rashemi, Shou, Tethyrian, and other human ethnicities.

Dwarf - Gold Dwarf, Shield Dwarf

Elf - Moon Elf, Sun Elf, Wild Elf, Wood Elf

Gnome - Rock Gnome

Halfling - Lightfoot, Strongheart

Half-Elf - Human and Moon Elf, Sun Elf, Wild Elf, or Wood Elf descent

Half-Orc



3. Social Status and Titles - At creation FRC Player Characters should be considered common born. Do not give your character any type of noble status or title. For example "Sir", "Lady", "Lord", etc.



4. Character Names - FRC Player Characters may not have the names of characters from existing fact or fiction, including historical figures or characters appearing in video or print media. Likewise, characters should not have names that are variations in spelling on any of the disallowed names, nor should they have names that are phonetically similar to expressions or phrases.



5. Character Heads and Skin Tones - Do not select a head with horns or with exaggerated features not applicable to your character's race. Choose a normal skin tone for your character's race. Normal can vary by race. For example, there should be no purple humans, or bright green elves, etc.



6. Ability Scores - Players may assign the ability scores for their characters as they wish, but the scores must be roleplayed. Ability scores below 10 mean the character is less than average in that attribute and the smaller the number the more deficient that attribute becomes. Characters with an Intelligence less than 10 cannot read or write and have trouble speaking properly. Characters with a Charisma less than 10 are less attractive or influential in some significant way, smell worse, etc.



7. Patron Deities and Alignment - Faerun is polytheistic and people may pray to many gods but the selection of a character's Patron Deity is personal and a character may have only one Patron at a time.

Given this relationship, a character may not have a radically different alignment than her Patron Deity. For example, a chaotic good rogue may not choose Bane, the lawful evil god of tyranny and fear, as her Patron.

As divine spell casters, Clerics, Druids, Paladins, and Rangers have further considerations when selecting a Divine Patron (see below).



8. Barbarian Alignment - Barbarians begin play with a restriction against Lawful Alignment. Should a Barbarian character shift to a Lawful Alignment later in their career they may lose their ability to rage by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Lawful character may not advance as a Barbarian. This restriction can be removed if the Barbarian coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns a Non-Lawful alignment shift. See Fallen Status.



9. Cleric Patron Deities, Alignment, Domains, and Atonement - As divine spell casters, Clerics must have a Patron Deity that is native to the Forgotten Realms setting. Generally, a cleric's alignment can only be one step from their deity's alignment. For example, the deity Bane is Lawful Evil and a cleric of Bane can only be Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, or Lawful Neutral. If playing a cleric, please see the following link to read further and note exceptions.

frc.proboards.com/post/20339/thread

Clerics must also have the correct domains for their selected deity. If playing a cleric, a list of pantheons with deities, alignments, and domains usable on FRC may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/post/316873/thread

Additionally, players may request approval from the DM Team to play a cleric having a fiendish lord as their patron. The virtuous Celestial Paragons do not desire mortal worshipers and do not have clerics on the Prime Material Plane. Please contact a DM for more information if needed.

Clerics who change their faith or act in ways opposed to their god’s alignment or purposes may lose access to their divine abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Cleric may not advance further as a Cleric. These restrictions can be removed if the Cleric coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.



10. Druid & Ranger Patron Deities and Druid Atonement - As divine spell casters, Druids and Rangers must have a Patron Deity native to the Forgotten Realms setting and have an alignment within one step of their deity's alignment. Druids must follow a nature deity, but Rangers do not. If needed, a list of nature deities usable on FRC may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/post/316867/thread

A Druid who changes their faith, ceases to revere nature, changes to a prohibited alignment, or teaches the Druidic language to a Non-Druid may lose access to their divine and nature abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Druid may not advance further as a Druid. These restrictions can be removed if the Druid coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.



11. Monk Orders and Multi-classing - A Monk is not required to belong to a Monastic Order on FRC but a Monk must belong to a Monastic Order to multi-class within the allowances of the Order. Monks who do not belong to a Monastic Order may not multi-class freely. However a Monk without a Monastic Order may cease advancing as a Monk permanently and opt to take other classes going forward. Players making this decision should notify the DM Team and advise the character's current class levels.

If you play a Monk who belongs to a Monastic Order and decide to leave the order please notify the DM Team of your decision and your character's current class levels.

FRC Player Character Monks belonging to a Monastic Order may multi-class according to the allowances of the Order on this list:

frc.proboards.com/post/316868/thread



12. Paladin Patron Deities, Paladin Orders & Multi-classing, Falling from Grace, and Atonement - As divine spell casters, Paladins are devoted to a Patron Deity native to the Forgotten Realms setting having Lawful Good, Neutral Good, or Lawful Neutral alignment. The Chaotic Good goddess Sune Firehair is the exception as she also has paladins among her followers.

Paladin characters may not take the Blackguard prestige class. Should you wish for your Paladin to Fall from Grace, you must contact a DM.

A paladin who changes their faith, ceases to be lawful good, who willfully commits an evil act, or who grossly violates the code of conduct may lose access to their divine abilities by receiving a Fallen Status Token. A Fallen Paladin may not advance further as a Paladin. These restrictions can be removed if the Paladin coordinates with a DM or EDM and successfully earns Atonement. See Fallen Status.

A Paladin is not required to belong to a specific Paladin Order on FRC but a Paladin must belong to a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing to multi-class within the allowances of the Order. Paladins who do not belong to a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing may not multi-class freely. However a Paladin without a Paladin Order that allows multi-classing may cease advancing as a Paladin permanently and opt to take other classes going forward. Players making this decision should notify the DM Team and advise the character's current class levels.

If you play a Paladin who belongs to a Paladin Order and decide to leave the order please notify the DM Team of your decision and your character's current class levels.

FRC Player Character Paladins belonging to a Paladin Order may multi-class according to the allowances of the Order on this list:

frc.proboards.com/post/316871/thread

This is not an exhaustive list of all the Paladin Orders in the Forgotten Realms, but other orders than those listed do not allow multi-classing.



13. Disallowed Multi-class Combinations - The following multi-class combinations are not allowed on FRC.

- Paladin/Sorcerer

- Paladin/Blackguard

- Blackguard/Sorcerer

- Monk/Druid



14. Disallowed Feat - The Devastating Critical Feat is not allowed on FRC.



FRC's Lore of the Lands section has a trove of information that may be of interest to FRC Players of characters of all types. The FRC Lore of the Lands section may be found here:

frc.proboards.com/board/73/lore-lands


Please ask a DM if there are any questions about FRC Character Creation Rules or share your question in the DM Q&A section here:

frc.proboards.com/board/27/dm-answers



Thank you,
The FRC Staff

[DM Hawk]

Hail Cormyrians!

The expanded Server Rules for Prestige Classes have been updated with the following:

frc.proboards.com/thread/29394/server-rule-expanded-prestige-classes


5. Blackguard Special Consideration - An application is not required to play the Blackguard PRC at this time but Blackguard players are required to advise a DM or EDM about their character's pact with an evil outsider upon taking their first Blackguard level.

Each Blackguard is aware of the entity that granted them their power and this needs to be represented in roleplay on FRC.

The blackguard epitomizes evil. The quintessential black knight, this villain carries a reputation of the foulest sort that is very well deserved. Consorting with evil outsiders, the blackguard is hated and feared by all. Some people call these villains anti-paladins due to their completely evil nature.

The blackguard has many options available to them - sending forth dark minions and servants to do their bidding, attacking with stealth and honourless guile, or straightforward smiting of the forces of good that stand in their way.

To that end a Blackguard on FRC is not an evil divine champion. The blackguard must make a pact with an evil outsider. That could include a representative of an evil deity, but not the deity themselves. If a deity is not evil, it is unlikely they would work with evil outsiders which means they would not qualify for a blackguard pact.

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DM Betelgeuse has agreed to be the point of contact for players taking the Blackguard PRC. Please contact DM Bete in game, on the forum, or in Discord and advise him of your Blackguard's pact with an evil outsider.

If Bete can't be reached, players may contact another DM or EDM instead.

[DM Flash]

Hail Cormyrians!

The FRC Death & Dying policy has been updated for accuracy to account for the implementation of Petrification Persistence:

8. Do not log out while your character is dead, dying, or to avoid death or another unfavorable consequence - Please re-spawn, then log out if necessary. If you must leave your keyboard for more than a few minutes while dead go ahead and respawn.

Should your character die and have no surviving party members committed to a rescue, the character must Respawn. Do not linger while dead in the hope that someone will wander by and come to the rescue. Don't send tells or contact other players for rescue as this is metagaming (see rule 7).

If an entire party is killed everyone must respawn. Do not respawn and return to rescue the other members of your party.

If you crash while dead and return to the game more than a few minutes later, please respawn immediately upon logging back into the game.

If your character is petrified and there is no hope of rescue (see Petrification Persistence), the character must respawn. Lingering while petrified in the hope someone will come to the rescue is disallowed, and waiting until a server reset will result in being petrified in the Welcome Room.