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The Restlands Map

You all arrive on the somber scene, a coffin sitting on a cart surrounded by a small group of people obviously grieving. You clutch the letter in your hand, but until this point its just been a bad dream, seemingly impossible. Now, seeing the makings of a funeral in front of your eyes, reality sets in.

Professor Petros Lorrimor is dead.

You recognize who must be the author of the letters written to each party member, Kendra Lorrimor. Not that you’ve ever met her, but it’s obvious due to the attention she’s getting. She doesn’t have much to say at this point, but she does take each of you aside and ask for you to be one of the pallbearers, that this was one of the professors wishes, another of the oddities of the whole situation. But, since you can hardly begrudge a grieving woman this simple request, you comply. By tradition the coffin must be carried from the gates onward, so you will have to carry it down the Dreamwake and further on the Eversleep until you reach the professor's final resting place.

Kendra tells you that they are just waiting on a couple more people and she will signal you when the time comes to begin. Though the people of the town seem to be keeping to themselves and have little interest in the newcomers, you curiously look at the your fellow pallbearers, obviously all not from this town, and can tell that they have a story too.

Feel free to introduce your characters at this point. Once everyone has had a chance to post I’ll move the story forward. Welcome to Ravengro!

Come on in to discuss your characters, I'll be looking over them and giving any needed feedback as quickly as possible. I'll give my basic character creation layout and we've already discussed race and class stuff, but if there's any other questions let me know!

Character Creation:
20pt Buy
2 Traits + 1 Campaign Trait (Download the players guide here)
You need to tie your back story to Professor Lorrimor, this will help me immensely. Obviously if you can tie in your character with another character (such as our elf/tiefling duo), also helpful.
Average Starting Wealth

Also, I decided to keep the xp that you gained in our first little romp, so keep that in mind and be prepared most likely for a quick level up as we hit the ground running.

This is the short list of things I though of off the top of my head, any clarifying questions and suggestions are welcomed, especially from those who are a bit more familiar with this AP. I'm doing my research now, so be prepared for any changes I might make to the start of this campaign. I'm stoked to be doing this, and as always I ask for your help in guiding my through any murky territory I find myself in!

Your hometown of Sandpoint is a quaint seaside settlement that periodically has problems with monsters, such as wicked goblins and hungry ghouls, but the citizens always manage to endure and survive. Lately, however, a far greater danger has come to threaten the town.

A few weeks ago, livestock started to disappear from nearby farms. Sometimes a half-eaten corpse is found, sometimes only bloodstains. The people of Sandpoint are afraid, and mayor Kendra Deverin is growing desperate. She hopes some heroes will volunteer to search out this menace and put an end to it before it kills a person. She’s offered $1,000 gold pieces to the group that stops this mysterious creature. Although no one has seen the killer directly, a long black fang was found in one of the animal corpses, prompting the locals to dub the unseen killer “Black Fang.”

You have decided to go on a quest to put an end to these brutal killings. Rumor holds that Black Fang is living in an old cave not too far from town, which has been used as a den for many monsters over the years. You've gathered your gear and are now approaching the entrance to this dungeon, but you still have a few moments to get to know your fellow adventurers.

Again, you won't arrive until tomorrow, so the most you should worry about is just introducing yourselves and having fun. So, goodnight all!

Come, meet, discuss! I know there are 6 people which was my max, which will make some of these initial encounters easier. But I promise if you help me by working through them with me, I will work into some more intricate plots and more difficult encounters. I've got to be done with this for the night, so I'm off, but thank you for your interest and I look forward to playing together.

So, let me explain. I am a bit new to all this, but I am involved in a few PbP's and have had a bit of experience playing a home game. That being said, instead of trying to join every PbP that get's posted, I figure maybe I aught to try and GM for myself. I'm not very up on advanced rules, races, etc, etc, even though I have access to a lot of stuff through books, prd, pdf's and all that. I am most comfortable with the core rule book.

What I would like to do is this - recruit 4-6 players to run through the Beginners Box encounter and the extras that they have released. I'm choosing this because they are very simple and will help me to learn what it is that I'm doing without serious complications, crazy rules, etc. Ideally, I would like to have some kind of experienced players, particularly people who have GM'd before, to participate and kind of help me along with my GMing skills. But, I have a soft spot for new people to the game, so I foresee a mix of both.

As far as races/class limitations, I am not going to stick with the Beginner Box character creation rules. I've got a little more experience than that and they are just too limiting even for me. That being said, I would like to stick to core races and classes. I have a pdf copy of the APG and a lot of the other source-books, but if you can keep to the core stuff and maybe in the future I'll work my way out of there. We will be working off a 15 point buy like the beginner box characters, however, because these encounters aren't exactly difficult.

For posting, I am very available during the day M-F, and spotty on the weekends, so I would like to see 1-2 posts on weekdays and a post or two over weekends if you can. I will have maps available in Google Docs (home-made, so be kind!) so we can have some visuals.

Depending on how many people we can get on this and what the characters look like I can beef up the encounters, I do know at least that much of how to do things. So please post if you're interested, and don't be scared because I'm new! I really like this game and am willing to learn and if this goes well I would definitely be interested in expanding into bigger and better things, maybe even a full on campaign.

I've seen similar posts along the way, so here's my shot. I'm pretty new to Pathfinder; I was introduced to table-top rpg through a short lived home game, also joined what turned into a failed online pbp, and am going to my first Society play in a couple of weeks, so I still consider myself pretty green. I'd like to get into a classic, 1st level Pathfinder campaign setting online as a kind of learning experience and see where it goes. I've got a lot of the source materials (I was a little overzealous when I first started playing so I bought and borrowed a lot of stuff to read) so for the most part creating basic characters, leveling them up, etc, I don't need a lot of help with. I just want to do some gaming. I've got plenty of time to participate in an online forum, so I think this would be pretty awesome. I just need someone to GM and some people to hop on board. I don't care which campaign setting it is, I just want to dive in. Any takers?