I just moved to the area and found the "official" scene lacking. Looking for a group of almost any system.
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Firstly I'd like to say I'm sorry if I'm not in the right section, and I hope I won't anger anyone if I am. I've been planning a Pathfinder game for awhile now. Originally the game was going to feature a lot of political intrigue, war between nations, secret societies pulling the strings from the shadows, and even more secret societies pulling the strings of the secret societies. Unfortunately a sudden job change left me without the majority of my players and where I live finding gaming interested people is hard. With only two players left I looked on how I could run an appropriately fun and exciting game. Finally on the drive home from work one particularly foggy morning I came upon it. Make it a scary story/survival horror type of game. I could keep the world I spent months developing but I could make the players much smaller in it, a "side-quest" if you will to the bigger happenings in the world at large. The basic premise is that the players are members of a mercenary organization that is employed by one of the two major war powers. Contracted to take a trading settlement in the high mountains the organization sent a large force to clear out the town and safe guard it for the armies of their employer. When the game starts it has been two weeks since that force was sent out, and the organization is too hard pressed to send more than a few people, so they send two recruits to conduct a search and try to find the missing mercenary army. The town, called Raven's Crown, as I said before is in the high mountains and it's winter. Snow and low laying clouds block the player's vision, and the wet and cold threaten their health. The town itself seems to be empty, but the players (with a good check) should see faded blood splatters on walls and such. That's the set-up. The game (if it takes off) has to deal with a society who is attempting to bring the Goddess Lamastu into the material world and bind her to a human host. The town and the surrounding area are linked to the rituals needed to do this and as Lamastu is the goddess of madness and chaos her powers are playing havoc with the world around the site of the ritual. That's all I got, it's pretty basic and I want to improve it so I can present an excellent game. However in it's current state it sounds a bit too much like a certain survival horror video game. So this is why I have come to all. Please help the newbish GM. |