Looking for casual D&D 3.5 game
I work weird hours, and way too many of them. But I would like to get back to playing. Unfortunately, though two new editions have been released, I don't have access to any of the new stuff just the SRD online.
I do have an idea for a character that I would like to play. I am fine with solo or a small group, but my job will heavily limit my ability to post.
Below is the origin I came up with for the character, a psion/soulknife
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The first thing I remember is waking up in a stone chamber. It was damp and cold and the light was terrible. Iron bars separated the room into two sections, with me on the side without the door. By luck or design the door was unlocked and I was able to explore the rest of my prison.
I quickly discovered that I was trapped in a series of rooms, each stacked atop the other. At the very top I found a bed chamber with several large windows overlooking a vast forest from far above the treetops. Below the bedchamber I found a room full of books, it took me several days to figure out there was information hidden inside them but once I did I spent much of my time reading.
From these books I discovered that I was in a wizard's tower and that he had been performing a number of experiments, among them the one which created me. Apparently I was once a normal fox the wizard captured in the local forest and somehow he was able to grant me both a bipedal form and intelligence. I assume, based on the detailed notes and journals found in the library, that his experiment with me is documented somewhere, but either the journal was destroyed or the wizard took it with him when he vanished.
As to where the wizard went, or why he left this tower with only me and none of his other 'projects' mentioned in his journals, I have no idea. I searched for an exit, but the only access to the outside I was able to find was the several story drop from the bedchamber, strangely the tower had no other exit.
The books proved interesting, but ultimately not useful. Many of them made reference to various magical spells and no matter how I tried the magics simply would not work for me.
Several weeks after I first awoke I had read most of the books in the library. I was, exploring, the back of one of the many shelves and discovered an old dusty book detailing an entirely different set of powers from the magic the rest of the library covered. It detailed the use of psionic powers. I suspect the wizard had it as more of a curiosity then anything else.
Interestingly, I was able to make use of this power. Using the strange glowing sword I somehow created I was able to carve my way out of the tower. I collected a few items from the tower and headed into the wide world.
I quickly discovered that there was little place for an oddity such as myself in the world. Not only was the walking, talking fox strange in may ways. The fact that I was able to use a power very few in the world were aware of seemed to unsettle most of the people I came across. I resigned myself to a life of travel, moving from place to place, seeking a purpose in my new existence.
