You and the strangers that surround you have no idea where you are. The darkness is thick past a certain boundary point but the torches on the circular wall that surrounds you light up just fine. In front of you, a wizard in the blackest of robes holds his hands up to the black creeping darkness above. His speech belies a powerful enchantment to himself, seeming to be able to speak in everyone's native language at once.
"Welcome ladies and gentlemen! Today we have a special treat! Surface dwellers have been successfully...'recruited' to join in our revelry! Will they be what we need to FINALLY get an interesting blood bath in this forsaken place? Or will our Dark Goddess abandon them before the fun even begins?"
It appears you and the other strangers have been teleported from wherever you were before, into a strange gladiatorial arena. The cheers coming from the darkness above indicate that you have little time to prepare, or even gather yourselves, for the match they have prepared for you, is about to begin.
Welcome everyone to my first attempt at GMing a play-by-post campaign. Loosely based on the Baldur's Gate expansion The Black Pit(though not set in the Forgotten Realms but more a homebrewed world) you and your compatriots, regardless of your alignment, personality types, or any such thing, have been randomly chosen to participate in a gladiatorial arena against your will. Your options seem to be to fight, or die. Forced to work together, you must overcome any biases one would usually hold against each other quickly if you wish to survive this deadly place.
Fret not, as this is not merely a gladiatorial campaign. The goal is not to conquer the pit(unless your party so chooses to attempt to do so), but to escape, make it back home, make these people pay for their transgressions, and end this vile practice of kidnapping and slaughtering random innocents.
But is there something even more vile going on under the surface of these battles? Is there another, sinister purpose besides the enjoyment of the audience?
Character creation:
All races that do not require a level adjustment template are allowed(except anything from the Underdark for campaign obvious reasons). They must, however, be Paizo, nothing third party.
All Paizo classes and archetypes allowed(Except Gunslinger and Synthesis Summoner).
All alignments allowed. The more diverse the better for me.
But you know...don't be surprised if the Lawful Good paladin wants to wreck your Chaotic Evil barbarian at the first possible oppertunity, and vice versa.
You begin at level 3, with 3k gold to buy equipment with and anything you would normally carry with you. Whatever you don't spend you will lose.
2 traits, no campaign traits.
Nothing from Path of War allowed
25 point buy stat allocation
Anything I missed or any questions people have, I will edit this beginning post in accordance to. Recruitment ends on the 23rd, I'm looking for 5-6 people.
Also, if you have Skype, it would be good if we could all get each other's contact information so that we can make sure this goes as smoothly as possible(nobody posting too much or stepping on other people's toes and the like due to miscommunication)
Edit: Some things to get me to consider you
1. Have a full character statted out for me to look over
2. Have an interesting backstory typed up
3. Type something up to show what your character can bring to a party.
