I'm exploring levels, books allowed, racial HD, gestalt or not, and other factor here. Gestalt is very likely, but not definite. I'm only allowing non-dread necromancer characters. My friend is playing a dread necromancer and he wants that to be his thing. I'd also like to limit one player per PrC and non-core classes. That is negotiable.

We can, and should, discuss the following here:

• Preferred Classes
• Gestalt or not
• Books allowed or not
• Racial HD
• Point Buy pool, or dice, or latter with former safety.
• Starting Level
• Starting Wealth
  
  • Some for fixtures of the city
  • Some devoted to consumables, including
    
    • Scrolls
    • Epic Spells
    • Potions (can be up to 9th since an NPC is an Alchemist class from a Faerun book)
    • Spell Components
    • Wands
    • Staves
    • Charms
    • Oils and Salves
    • Elixirs
    • Alchemical supplies (though this will be largely for pitiful threats, and giving to followers).
  • Some for permanent magic items
  • A tiny bit for mundane gear carried (so not structures) or mounts
• HP resolution (same applies to monsters)
• Intelligence finalizing skills vs incremental intelligence affecting skills

Aspects not up for discussion are as follows:

• Banned Sources:
  
  • Tome of Battle
  • Magic of Incarnum
  • 3rd party books other than Immortals Handbook
  • Web only non-pdfs, even if canon
  • KoK
• Banned Content
  
  • Rainbow Servant combination with Warmage type, or any all access ports, that essentially hack into all preparation spells spontaneously. Exceptions are Wish, Miracle and Any Spell power
  • Infinite combinations
  • Infinite multipliers
  • Stacking of magic items with unnamed bonuses that create a power gap, such as Orange Ioun Stones.
  • Anything that even implies Prestidigtattion can be used in combat beyond pinnache.

It should be noted, there is currently a GM wanted ad I'm watching. While I'm going to secure positions based on this string of names, it does have some impact on this game, and so I may be incorporating some of the discovery of methodology from this GM wanted ad. I feel this game has some strong parallels, but deviates enough to be unwarranted for a "I can GM this" reply.

This is the GM wanted ad: link to a message in another game

I appreciate the addition of Stronghold builders guide, but may deviate on the need for a class ot feat to gain effectively, a game central theme. Seems...silly. For this game at least! I already know it will be city building and management game. So I sort of have a different more transparent and up front method of effectively giving the landlord feat. Some things might be tweaked from that book, as it's in the 3.0 to 3.5 transition, but it's good inspiration! Just don't get too attached to the rules as written in the supplement.

I myself prefer if we would be able to start as +13 level chars (cause want to play as a lich and impossible enter one with +2 LA not sooner than 11th level char). Would not mind higher levels either. Also, gestalt adds some added versatility to the chars (but fine if leave it out).

But if start lower than need to consider alternative undead (like necropolitant or go straight pale master) for my concept.

I'd quite like to be 18th level at Maximum, not quite Epic but able to do most of what we want to be able to do in building up Ivost to become the awesome city we know that it can be.

Also because I see Haakon as equal parts Aquatic Ranger, Rogue and Horizon Walker and given his character, I don't want to see him beginning with more than six levels of Horizon Walker.

Similarly I'd put a minimum level of nine because the requirement of 8 ranks in Knowledge (Geography) means Haakon can't become a Horizon Walker until he's level 5 - which means I could conceivably play him with three levels of each class.