Many years ago, a merchant named Alagoran lived in the local village of Roderic's Cove. Thanks to his shrewd mind, he became filthy rich through many business deals with distant races; some were simply good deals, others more questionable. As time went on, he began to grow increasingly suspicious of others, worried they would steal his wealth. After a break-in whilst away resulted in the loss of thousands of gold worth of treasure, Alagoran decided it was best for him to keep his wealth upon his person, where he could always keep an eye on it. He searched far and wide for an investment which could be safely carried with him, wherever he may go, and one day, at the entrance to an old cave system not far from his home, he met a strange dwarf. The dwarf brought forth a gemstone to trade for the man's silver, gold, and platinum. After having the huge gemstone carefully inspected and appraised, Alagoran agreed to the trade, naming the gem "Alagoran’s Gem".
Rumors quickly spread of Alagoran and his rare gem, bringing scoundrels and treasure-hunters from all corners of Golarion to watch the merchant and his stone, and worse. Alagoran quickly realized he had to do something about it, and sold his mansion in town, intent on getting away for good. Using the money to hire the best masons and trapsmiths in the land, Alagoran located the small cave entrance where he had met the dwarf years before and began work building a vast dungeon. The structure would be an impenetrable vault and every nook and cranny would be filled with traps to protect his wealth. After years of living amid the construction, the dungeon was complete. Finally Alagoran would be left alone.
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Here it was that Alagoran lived for many more decades, continuing to amass his riches from his existing trading agreements. A single local merchant made the journey to the dungeon once per month to drop off food and packages, meeting Alagoran outside. No one knows exactly how Alagoran died, but one day he stopped showing up for his monthly meetings, never to be seen or heard from again. Within the year, there were rumors of the vast treasure within Alagoran’s Dungeon and the rare gem which must be hidden deep within.
I’m looking for 4-6 players interested in a classic style dungeon crawl. By classic style I mean Gygax-ian first edition dungeon crawl. To better understand what I'm talking about, please read this.
I've been playing some variety of paper and pencil, face to face, RPG since the early 90's. Since about 2000, I have primarily been the GM for our weekly game. Unfortunately, life has grown complicated as gaming groups get older and our regular weekly games have become monthly games, then as schedules get crowded we wind up skipping months. Our last session was almost 8 months ago. So I've started playing PbP games here. Now it is time to share the wealth and pass on the good favor I have received, and start GMing. This is my first PbP GMing experience. I have a homebrew sandbox campaign I'd like to run, but I'm going to run a few modules first to get the kinks out.