While the LARP activities of VE have been a been a bit dead for several
years, we have still been arranging the occasional tabletop game.

Most of these games have been using Dungeons & Dragons or other
compatible games using the d20 System game engine known as the System
Resource Document.

As some of you will know, I've been collecting links for these
compatible games.

I have now grabbed almost all of the playable monster races from the
SRD and put them into our links pages. To see them go to our links page:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/virtualeclipselrp/links

Then follow the links to:
> d20 System and compatible RPGs
> Rules
> Races

The links themselves (at least most of the links) lead to monster
entries at the Hypertext d20 SRD. The Hypertext d20 SRD website is one
of the best online versions of the SRD I have found. It is a great
resource for calculating game statistics when you are away from home
and can't get to your game books. Everything in the monster stats that
refers to rules elsewhere is hyperlinked and you can click away to find
almost all the rules you need to play a character from that race.

Where a "[monster name] As Characters" section has been available I've
linked directly to that. Where that section isn't available you will
need to do a few additional calculations to work out the sort of skills
available to the monster before you can play a PC from that race.

Note that monsters with any stats below 10 need a special character
creation process. You can find the extra rules for monsters as
characters here:
http://www.d20srd.org/indexes/monstersAsRaces.htm

I've added the "Level Adjustment" and "Racial HD" to help you work out
the "Effective Character Level" a PC made from that monster race will
have. (ECL = LA + Racial HD + class levels)

So far I've done most of the standard monsters. I skipped dragons as
they have variable ECLs and variable HD. I've got to go back and do
them at some point and I also want to cover the psionic monsters and
epic monsters (which the Hypertext d20 SRD put on other sections of
their website).

When I've collected the lot I might try making some classified lists,
but I'll need somewhere better than my links pages to do that sort of
thing.

Happy gaming!

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Webmaster
Virtual Eclipse Science Fiction Role Playing Club
http://www32.brinkster.com/virtualeclipse/
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/virtualeclipselrp/