Outlaws, tyrants, brigands and worse are the dregs that for centuries have been cast through the gates of Celaria, exiles forever. If the worst torment of imprisonment is the enduring company of vile criminals, then the prison colony of Saran is worse still. A demiplane wrested from the control of a mad druid as a savage, violent microcosm of all nature, packed with monsters, topography and weather ripped from all over the world. None live here but the foulest sort of scum, and the handful of hardened wardens who keep the peace. Each person is stripped of all possessions, given one day's food and drink, and as the magistrates read the charges and sentence against them they are unchained and thrown bodily through the gate by a score of armored guards. May the heavens take mercy on their souls, if the hells not claim them first.
Welcome to the Fugitives of Saran. I hope to run a PBP of the game for a small cadre of interested souls. I'm looking for deep characters that reflect the bitter conditions of the prison demiplane and the souls abandoned there. I elected to post here rather than in Gamer Connection hoping not to glut the boards with too many posts about the same game, to help consolodate things.
Saran is a plane largely bereft of magic, so for the first section of the game characters whose powers are based on faith or magic will find themselves...disadvantaged. Of those whose powers have dwindled, Sorcerers have fared the best, though even they are but shadows of their former power.
Starting level characters. Heroic stats (2d6+6 six times and allocate). Starting equipment should be easy--a clean gray prison tunic, a loaf of stale bread, a wedge of tasteless cheese, a few sun-dried bony fish and a sealed tankard of lumpy beer-yogurt. While everyone is a prisoner, not everyone need be evil (certainly there's a fair share of political dissidents and state-created criminals who only steal to eat).
That should be a enough to get people started. I look forward to seeing what people come up with. Don't worry about space filling up overmuch. I'm looking for a few handpicked quality characters more so than necessarily taking folks in the order they post. This should be fun. I've been looking forward to running a good Superstar game since way back when the contest was running.