Heralding the Coming of the Age of Worms (Inactive)

Game Master Fanguar

@ Living Greyhawk: From the beginning of that campaign I played multiple PCs from the Yeomanry, and due to business travel to California, one from the Kingdom of Nyrond. I traveled many times to the Gran March and was present for more than one major battle in that land, always fighting under the Yeomany banner. "Raise the Spear!" :)

Working hard here to create an interesting arcane caster. Soon...

1: Tell me the defining characteristics of your character.

* His dour outlook on life and his undying arrogance. Elvar is a serious person, bookish, critical and with a cynical outlook to life. Born and raised in Diamond Lake he's seen the worst humanity has to offer and he's not impressed, men will take advantage of the unwary and weak so Elvar has gone out of his way not to socialize with said people and keeps his guard up when he must deal with them (shopkeepers especially).

2: Do they have any family?
Yes. Born and raised in Diamond Lake his mother still resides there as well as his older brother and sister. His father ran off when he was ten, good riddance to the drunken gambler, his mother gets by as a cook in one of the mines, his sister is a debt collector for one of the local gambling halls and his brother has taken up his fathers trade of drinking and gambling though he claims to be a miner by trade.

His mothers brother runs a local bakery with his family, the only family member who can be said to have a lick of sense, and it was him who sponsored Elvar through his schooling as an architect.

3: Why do they want to get out of Diamond lake, i.e. why give up what they have to become an adventurer.

* Because there's nothing here for him. The jobs he's done for the local mine owners he's yet to be paid in full for, the clergy are better though stingier and that's about sums up the local clientele for an architect. Moving to a bigger city is about all he can think off but Elvar knows he's going to have a hard time getting in with any circles there so that leaves only one option; Adventuring. He'll need to come up with enough cash so he can set off his own projects, make name for himself and increase his reputation enough so that he won't have to make it into any circles, the circles should come to him.

Also, tell me why you want to play this particular AP

* Because it's the most applauded AP in my gaming circles and I've never had the chance to play it. Plain and simple. I've heard it's deadly and well written (extremely so in both cases) and am eager to try it out.

1: Tell me the defining characteristics of your character.

Ramos is a degenerate gambler though and though. He has been known to go without sleep for days on end when he is on hot streaks. Eventually they either culminate in pile of gold, or sleeping off his streak in an alley. Ramos, perhaps fool heartily trusts chance, and the will of his lord to see him though. He knows that everyone rolls a hard six eventually and his time will come, but until then, he is going to ride out the odds for as long as possible.

2: Do they have any family?

Ramos has a father (Alek Tharn) and a younger sister (Viera Tharn). They both live in Greyhawk City, though in different areas. Ramo's mother left while Viera was still a toddler. This was mostly due to Alek being an abusive alcoholic and a womanizer. Between his fathers occasional jobs and rampant benders, Ramos spent most of his time as a youth hustling rubes in fixed games of "chance" in order to earn a dinner for him and his sister.

3: Why do they want to get out of Diamond lake, i.e. why give up what they have to become an adventurer.

Please see my prologue.

Also, tell me why you want to play this particular AP
I'll be honest when I say that I don't know much about Age of Worms. However I heard nothing but good things about the three AP's that Paizo released while still under dungeon magazine, and I still have a Savage Tide sitting on my shelf at home waiting for the right group, so I think that AoW is going to be steller. That said, I am a long time D&D player, going as far back as 2nd edition's Ravenloft and Return to Tome of Horrors, and I still enjoy "classic" settings. Its for these reasons that I would like to take part in your campaign.

Submitting Mediocris. All the crunch is done but have been called away on work so its been done from my phone and will try to get the background done on the phone too.
1: Tell me the defining characteristic of your character:
Mediocris feels betrayed by his true parents and as result very loyal to those he considers his friends. He also like he is the outsider and doesn't belong. Currently he feels despondant having returned from serving to defend Diamond Lake to wonder if it was worth saving.
2: Do you have family?
Possibly his true parents are still alive otherwise his only family are the priests and priestesses of Istus.
3: Why do they want to leave Diamond Lake?
He wants to make difference in the world and having put his life on the line to protect his adopted town he has returned and seen the Avarice and corruption and is wondering if it was worth saving.
Why do you want to play this ap.
I really enjoyed shackled city when it came out but had to move away from town when my friends started age of worms, they said liked so been looking for an opportunity to play it.

Fished basic background now. Not mowing the setting well I have invented a war feel free to tell me to change this if it doesn't work.
Mediocris will be heading towards Eldrich Knight so will be taking wizard next level. He will firstly be a HP sink and buffing wizard (everyone not just himself) and secondly damage dealer .

Lucid, halfling Wizard, reporting in. Only need to pick a trait and he should be ready to play.

(Alias of Skorn... )

No big battle royale as the opening scene? I noticed several hours of silence after the suggestion.

I suggest "Warrior", by Disturbed for inspiration.

...Stand up and show some pride...

Recruitment is now closed for new submissions

Thanks to all those who have already applied, I'll be going over you submissions and making my selections over the weekend.

If you still haven't fished your submission, please do so today. Applicants that have not answered the GM questions will not be considered for acceptance.

I will be notifying my selections via PM, so keep an eye on your inboxes and to all those who don' make the cut, you didn't make this easy. I'm not looking forward to having to choose and I hope that any future campaigns I decide to run are able to generate so many high quality submissions.

Best of luck everyone! Crossing my fingers.

Good Luck to all the apply!

Recruitment is now closed for new submissions

Thanks to all those who have already applied, I'll be going over you submissions and making my selections over the weekend.

If you still haven't fished your submission, please do so today. Applicants that have not answered the GM questions will not be considered for acceptance.

I will be notifying my selections via PM, so keep an eye on your inboxes and to all those who don' make the cut, you didn't make this easy. I'm not looking forward to having to choose and I hope that any future campaigns I decide to run are able to generate so many high quality submissions.

Hi, here is Talia, Llaelian's ranger character. I've put my character and the answers to your questions in this alias for ease of reference. I've also updated the background according to the infos I could get on Diamond Lake.

Good luck, happy hunting.

Will there be a post indicating selections are complete... so the non-selected know, they... aren't?

Will there be a post indicating selections are complete... so the non-selected know, they... aren't?

Sure, I can do that.

Character sheet is completed and ready to go. Good luck to all applicants.

Invites have gone out.

Apologies to all those who were not selected. I would take you all if I could.

Best of luck with the game folks. Endeavour not to die!

Ah well, Maybe next time.

Good luck to you all, and don't forget, when in doubt torch it. ^_^

Agreed - congrats to those that got the invitation, and be sure to bring extra holy water!

Congrats on those selected, have a good game folks.

Not sure if I should be posting here or in discussion... but I see you are looking for 1-2 replacement characters?

I have not quite finished crunching him... but I would like to submit a human flowing monk named Tsing Tao.

To DM, i am submitting also along with Jello-Man (you can find the char crunch in the other thread for the shattered star ap)

Thread necromancy! Back you foul abominations, BACK!!!