House Rules

Below are the particular house rules novel to Red Tide MUX.

Game Mechanics

• Canonical books are listed here, indicating which 4th edition D&D books we allow to be used here.
• Time, and how it passes on the MUX.
• Cosmology, giving the differences between the "standard" D&D planar system and the cosmology here.
• Interpretations of certain powers and abilities, and how they work here.
• Awesomeness of the PCs, and how they relate to ordinary foes.

Character Rules

• Advancement, and how one handles rising in character level here.
• Alignment is handled slightly differently here.
• Equipment is generally assumed, with exceptions for particularly valuable or magical items.
• New Feats and Class Options for the 4e game.

Creating Things

• Building and owning real property on the MUX is a little complex, but detailed here.
• Rituals unique to the Sunset Isles, or otherwise not found in the PHB.
• Ritual Pacts and the occult processes pioneered by the old Ninefold Celestial Empire.
• Crafting, Buying and Selling Magic Items, and the specific handling of this work here.
• Xianese Magic Items and a few of the novel formulae that can be found floating around in Xian.

Old House Rules, no longer relevant in fourth edition.

• Divine Spells are handled with particular guidelines, due to the free access most divine casters have to them.
• Domains and Deity Weapons rules exist for picking clerical Domains and weapons for Spiritual Weapon or the War domain.
• Leadership as a Feat is handled a particular way here.
• Martial Adepts have a few rules and interpretations here.