Interested in building a RPG site

[Sorcerer618]

Hello, I've been browsing forums and mod sites for a couple of days now trying to find out how I can make a idea happen.

I've got very little website administration experience. I've used things like SMF/TP and Mambo.

What I'm trying to accomplish is a forum based RPG site (mostly just for me and a few friends).

[RPG = Roleplaying Game]

I've tried looking at a few mods for vbulletin, however it seems I am unable to view some of the images the modders had posted.

What I'm looking for is a way for a user account to "Create a Character" that would be linked to the account. I'm looking for something where a user could potentially have multiple characters linked to his account.

Each Character in a account can earn Experience (Separately). Perhaps a total amount of XP earned for all characters can be listed under the user name on the forums?

I would like the user to be able to spend experience to raise stats for the character using a formula.

I would also like users to be able to roll dice on the forums. The number of dice rolled are based on the character's stats, but there are a lot of modification rules to how many you roll so just something that allows a user to roll X amount of Y Dice Type.

Also is it possible with Vbulletin to have users be able to apply for a certain group category and based on settings either automatically allow them in a certain group or automatically deny them?

I understand not everything will be avaliable and that it's possible some coding may have to be done. I'm just trying to find out a direction where I can find some of these features and maybe peice something together.

I've talked about using a excel sheet for the characters.

If anyone has any idea or a direction they can point me to finding even 1 of these features that would be very helpful.