Now on with the House Rules! (these may be expaned so check back)

I want you all to answer the Prelude Questions for your character

He are some more of "Al's Rules"
 

• We will not "roll up" characters in the traditional sense.  These are charecters that I want you to fall in love with and it is hard to fall in love with the "runt of the litter"  so I want all characters equal as they are in the Storyteller's Games (Vampire).  Each person will have 92 points to distribute among the six ability scores.  This does and doesn't include racial modifiers since they all wash out in the end anyways.  I firmly believe as in Vampire that this will not result in a bunch of PC's with the same stats, they should all be unique.
• Allowed Races:  Human, Gray Dwarf, Hill Dwarf, Mountain Dwarf, Deep Gnome, Surface Gnome, Gray Elf, High Elf, Valley Elf, Wood Elf, Dark Elf (Drow), Hairfoot Halfling, Stout Halfling, Tallfellow Halfling, Half-Elf, Half-Orc.  Other races may be played with approval before you make the charecter, but it will be strongly encouraged to stay with these races.
• Classes:  Most, if not all, classes will be allowed but with some modifications to the standard way of doing things. We will be mixing First Edition (1st Ed) rules with Second Edition (2nd Ed) rules.  Some classes will follow the 1st Ed rules because I believe they are a better representation of what the class should be than the 2nd Ed rules.  The classes that will follow 1st Ed rules are:  Ranger, Cavalier, Paladin, Druid, Barbarian, Acrobat, Assassin, and Monk.  Psionists and Wild Mages must be pre-approved before creation.
• Skills and Powers: may be used and are encouraged.  Ability scores will be lower than we are used to because of the new system and Skills and Powers will help ease the pain a bit.  Unless you are making a "pure" Skills and Powers PC the charecter points will not carry over from race to class and so forth.
• Non-Weapon Profiecincies:  We will stay with the normal 2nd Ed rules since that is what we are familiar with unless you are making a pure Skills and Powers PC.
• Weapon Proficiencies:  I would like to stay with the Specialization and Double-Specialization rules from 2nd Ed and Fighter's Handbook.  If a majority want to use the Mastery rules we can switch.
• Charecter Sheets:  I do want the charecter sheets to be as detailed as possible.  Please include the rules for encumberance. encumberance will be an optional rule.  Also, I want everything shown on the sheet and how you got there. I want all combat bonuses plainly shown as well as all non-weaps detailed as to why the score is what it is.  This will be kept up so every bonus gained at a specific level is shown including HP's.  It is up to the player to know what everything his PC can do so learn exactly what all the non-weaps can do as well as any magic item you have.  Wizards and Clerics will be responsible for their spells and I may be able to print out a Spell Book for the PC. For examle:  If your cleric can turn undead, you should have all the rolls for that on your sheet. I don't want to stop play-time any more than necessary.  Feel free to ask if you need something explained and when in doubt put it on the sheet.
• Starting Money:  Starting funds need to be rolled up as per the rules and everything that the character has must be bought out of that fund.  I would like to see tabulations of purchasing the starting equipment.  Not that I don't trust any of you, but it is important to this game.  There will be no "standard adventurer's pack B" in this game. Spell books need to be bought and kept up to date.
• Character Death:  Will happen.  If both PC's die, then the player will have to wait patiently until I can bring them into the game in a correct way. Be warned, this could take a while.  Early in the adventure and towards the end are the best and easiest time to bring in new characters. My best advice?  Don't die in the middle.
• Combat  Will Be Ran this way
• Spell Books will be used
• Here are the Encumberance Rules that I will be using now.