D&D Consortium

Dungeons and Dragons Consortium

Posting a Game

The steps to follow when planning a Consortium game are as follows.

First, consult the Calendar to make sure that another Consortium game is not scheduled for the time at which you would like to run.
Second, email the group about your game. An email must be sent using the Consortium Mailing Group at least 20 hours before the game is scheduled. Include a meeting place, time, and a short description of your proposed game. The meeting place must be reasonably accessable to all members who would like to play, ie games will not be held in a boy's room on GCC.
Third, make sure that your adventure is scaled to the group that will probably be playing.
Fourth, run your game. As long as two or more people play in your game, then it is an official Consortium game.
While running your game, abide by the rules as close as possible. Consortium is meant to be rather homogenous, even with a host of DMs. So, reasonable amounts of treasure and experience ought to be given. The DMG has guidelines for rewards. Anything not found in the Official Consortium Books must meet the approval of the Council before it is used in a Consortium game.
If a game does not follow these guidelines, then it is considered an illicit game. All characters that participate in an illicit adventure are considered illicit characters.

Consortium Guidelines

Consortium guidelines for play include:

Once a skill is a class skill, it is always a class skill. As an (extreme) example of this if a character starts out as a rogue, all the rogue class skills can be taken as class skills, no matter into which class the character multiclasses.
Any character who dies during an adventure gets a share of the experience earned in that adventure, as long as that character is retrievable.
A character can buy any magical items in any Official Consortium Book, as long as the item's total cost does not exceed his character level x 1,000 gp.
Any gross violation of the rules will result in inspection by the Consortium Council. The Consortium Council reserves the right to retract actions that are in violation of the rules set forth by the official Consortium Books. All such retractions made by the Consortium Council will be posted on the Rules Clarifications page.

Official Consortium Books

The following books are considered official Dungeons and Dragons Consortium Source Material.

The following books have been deemed definitely imbalanced or out of place as campaign material.