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Welcome Dungeons & Dragons Campaigns: Legacy of the Green Regent. In this campaign style game, you create your own character and play it at any RPGA-sanctioned event that features Legacy of the Green Regent adventures. During play, you interact with the adventure's story and challenges, and your character's actions help determine the course of the game over the next year and a half by way of online adventure tracking. Adventure tracking also awards your character experience points and gold pieces for defeating challenges.
About the RPGA
The RPGA is the roleplaying arm of organized play at Wizards of the Coast dedicated to providing play opportunities and support for Dungeons & Dragons and other d20 System games. All around the world, on any given weekend, fans of D&D and d20 System games play in RPGA-sanctioned events. These events take place at large conventions, midsize game days, and even private home gatherings.
To participate, you must be an RPGA member. To find an event in your area, visit the Event Calendar.
Required Materials
You need some standard gaming supplies to play Green Regent. These include the D&D v.3.5 core rules (Player's Handbook,Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual), a pen or pencil, a set of dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20), a miniature or token representing your character on the battle grid, your RPGA number (so you can report your play). You also need current verions of these documents available from the Green Regent main page:
- Legacy of the Green Regent Campaign Standards
- D&D Campaigns Character Sheet
- D&D Campaigns Progression Sheet
The character sheet, progression sheet, and magic and stack sheet are also included in the campaign standards. Wizards of the Coast gives you permission to photocopy material from the campaign standards for personal use, or for use at RPGA-sanctioned events.
Styles of Play
The Legacy of the Green Regent campaign offers three character generation styles. Detailed information for each creation style is available in the campaign standards, but here are summaries of each one.
Fastplay: The RPGA produces a number of characters designed primarily for players who need a character but have little experience with Dungeons & Dragons or don't have time to construct their own. Pick a character you like and download the completed character sheet. You can play and advance these characters as if you had built them yourself. At predetermined intervals called level kicks, the fastplay characters are swapped out and replaces with higher-level characters. If you chose to play and advance a fastplay character before a level kick, that's still your character to play; you're not required to switch it for a new fastplay character. Fastplay characters have additional rules described in the D&D Campaigns Special Features section below.
Coreplay: Using the D&D v.3.5 core books and the rules supplied in Appendix 1 of the campaign standards, you create a personalized character. Appendix 1 details basic rules from the Forgotten Realms setting to help you flesh out your character. Coreplay character creation rules are detail on pages 3-6 of the campaign standards.
Fullplay: For the greatest flexibility, use the fullplay rules. Fullplay rules are an addendum to coreplay character generation using the actual Forgotten Realms sources rather than the rules sampling provided in Appendix 1 of the campaign standards. To take full advantage of these options you should have a copy of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and the Races of Faerûn. Faiths and Pantheons is also helpful during fullplay character creation.
Campaign Cards  Campaign Cards are special cards that can affect your character and your play. There different types of Campaign Cards: creation, general, general (linked) and expansion. Campaign Cards are awarded to RPGA members as part of the D&D Player Rewards program, and promo cards are available at premiere shows such as Winter Fantasy, Origins, and Gen Cons.
Every time you come to an event where you play D&D Campaigns games, you declare your Campaign Card stack on your magic and stack sheet. Each card takes up one slot in the stack. You have as many slots as your character has character levels. You must have the actual Campaign Card to have it take up a slot.
D&D Campaigns Special Features
A number of special features distinguish D&D Campaigns from other campaign styles you many have played before. Here are some highlights of the cool new features premiering in Legacy of the Green Regent.
Online tracking: D&D Campaigns tracks your adventure successes and debacles online. The outcomes of these encounters shape the future campaign plot. After an event is reported, those bits of information are also added to your online character record to determine your experience and gold piece awards. Your character records are accessed from the Members Page. D&D Campaigns allows a total of six Legacy of the Green Regent characters for online tracking.
Once you've signed on, you can view your character list to set up characters, retire characters, change your default character, or view and print a Character Record. This record shows the character's name, class, race, first creation Campaign Card chosen, play history, experience, gold, and lets you know if the character is dead. Once you set up a character, a print option will appear on the character record. When you're getting ready to attend an event, be sure to print your Character Record as part of the official documentation need to participate. Character records expire after about a week, so make sure your print out is current. Character Record expiration dates fall on the same day of the week for every character in the campaign.  Miniatures and Fastplay: Aside from their easy of use, fastplay characters have additional features. Each fastplay character is keyed to one of the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures. If you play a fastplay character using that miniature, it unlocks a bonus that works exactly like a Campaign Card but is tailored for that particular character. The unlocked bonus sits in your stack like Campaign Cards.
Taking One for the Team: A player can play one of the fastplay characters but gain experience points for one of his or her own characters. This character swapping can only be done with the cleric, fighter, rogue, or wizard fastplay characters, and only if no PC at the session has a character with any class levels of the fastplay character's class.
Reequip: D&D Campaigns deals with wealth, equipment, and consumable items a bit differently than other campaigns. Taking into account your stack, level, and choices made during character creation, the campaign assumes that your character has a certain equip value (EV) to use for an adventure set at an event. For example, lets say you go to a session and play two Legacy of the Green Regent adventures. In your magic list you have a potion of cure light wounds. When you drink that potion in the first adventure, you benefit from the curing magic it bestows, but you can't use it again in that adventure. Your very next adventure, though, your equipment list resets. So even though you drank the potion in the first session, we assume that you have restocked the potion for the next adventure. You can use it again in the second adventure.
Resetting your equipment between adventures this way does not effect your equip value; your EV remains constant during an adventure set at an event. Note, if you don't use consumable equipment like the potion of cure light wounds in the first adventure, you don't have extra equipment (two potions of cure light wounds) for the second adventure. When play results are reported for the event, your equip value is adjusted to reflect both gold earned and spent during the adventure. Between events, you can retool your equipment list or keep what you had before and add to it based on your new equip value. To allow this flexibility, consumable items cost five times their published cost in D&D Campaigns.
Level Kick: It's never too late to join Legacy of the Green Regent. As the campaign moves forward, so does the level of play. At the launch of the campaign, you start play with a 1st-level character. Down the line, the campaign features level kicks that increase the starting level of the campaign. Existing characters that have not yet reached the new starting level are advanced to the new campaign level. At each kick, new fastplay characters are introduced and the campaign standards are updated to reflect the changes. The first kick occurs at Winter Fantasy 2004. Level kicks ensure sessions are well balanced at events and that every player can keep pace with the campaign.
Optional Materials
Legacy of the Green Regent uses a number of D&D and Forgotten Realms sources. While the following books are not required, having them increases your ability to expand your character.
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