"You are cordially invited, as the best of your class, to be appointed as a member of the Jade Regent Court in our Glorious and Mythical Capital of Xin-Shalast."
All that you've broken yourself for- perhaps late nights burning your fingers on failed creations of scrolls of scorching ray; the bruises you gathered fighting an ogre in a tournament; your nearly unbearable devotion to the god/goddess of your choice; it has finally become worth it.
As a resident of millions upon millions of Varisia you have been chosen to sit at one of the highest rungs of authority in the city. Knowing of the other invitees vaguely from the Jade Spire University and Academy from which you have now graduated, the four of you decide to vacation royally and regally in The Shackles as tourists of Port Peril.
The journey to the Shackles is rather fast given your various powers and wealth, however the journey back proves to be a rather difficult and painful thing...
As you load yourselves onto your privately hired boat and begin, begrudgingly, the journey back to Varisia to return to your new found duties, the Captain looks up at you with a slight wink in his eye "We've got a problem."
Looking for 4 players to run a little homebrew module with :)
Actual Game Mechanics:
As you can assume from the name this will be a relatively relaxed puzzle / escape based scenario. I am not going to tell you any information other than what is written above in order to preserve the fun and unexpected challenges.
This is a higher level short and sweet module. I'd be surprised if the game goes longer than two months. I've designed it to be short as I have an itch to GM a little homebrew segment now that I'm working from home, but don't want to take on a completely new adventure path or work on a more serious homebrew.
I also want to practice writing more, and, well, that requires more gm'ing and writing :P
Character Creation:
Race: I'm not too worried about this, as there is far more than mere combat to tax a player with. Nothing above advanced, and nothing as ridiculous as a gargoyle, and we should be fine!
Class: NO 3PP / Path of War, Spheres of Power, etc. For something like this it is just not necessary. I'm fine with occult, but no Psionics.
Point-Buy: 25, feel free to min / max as the calculator on this very site allows, after all, you aren't playing some PFS 3+ year long campaign. We want the RP to be fun, ridiculous, and something you'll enjoy for the short term.
Level: 7
Traits: You will get the "Rich Family Trait" as a bonus trait. 2 other traits, no draw backs for a "fourth." Unlike what is stated in the trait, feel free to say that that extra 900 GP was earned however you like within reason to your level.
Background Skills: Feel free to pick 2, this 3pp matches the setting of this game pretty well.
Starting Wealth / Starting Items: Uh oh! You spent QUITE a bit during your lengthy celebration in the Shackles. Though you come from money (or will very shortly), you only have 12000 gp in items, total, that you could have.
What you studied / are studying at the Academy What are you? Why would the Jade Regent want you? Are you superior in intellect to anyone else? Perhaps faster? Stronger? Are you overly wise, or would you be more than a mere asset as a diplomat for the Regent Court? Give me some backstory, what you are doing at a higher place of learning / betterment and what you wanted to achieve from it.
What did you do in the Shackles? What happens in the Shackles stays in the Shackles, unless your GM asks. Then you should give him a sentence or two as to what your character would have done to spend 12k + in coins over the course of a 2 week break in the Shackles before your initiation.
Characters / Player's will not be picked on a few criteria;
1) Compatibility with the other players RP wise
2) Survivability to the unknown challenges ahead
As you create your characters there is one thing to remember for this one- what can go wrong, will go wrong.
Enjoy, and if I missed anything, please ask!!!
Oh, right. We'll have recruitment open until 03/27/2017. I've got a seriously bad itch to just have some fun. Hopefully this sounds like something others could have fun with too. IF so, I'll plan on making more of these in the future :P
Posting rate expected is once a day or so, but again, this is more a suggestion than a demand. Just looking for some fun GM writing, RP, and new ways to challenge players.
Hmmmm.... Not nearly as much interest as I had hoped.... If so, I might just hold a module instead. Anyone have recommendations feel free to shout them out!
