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I apologize for any inconvience or irritation, but this is an INVITATION only game, based on an Interest Check I posted some time ago, and applications are only open to the players I contacted there.

A LONG TIME AGO IN A KINGDOM FAR, FAR AWAY
* Cue the Soundrack Music! *

Episode One:
The Sunless Citadel

It is a period of quiet unrest in between all too many civil wars.

Eldritch Knights, daring maidens, dashing scoundrels, heroic adventures, and righteous quests...These were once the legacies of old Taldor, a formerly-proud empire that has since fallen from its former glory.

Now rival nobles battle each other with bitter knights and proxy armies for personal power rather than honor. The Eldritch Legion that once fought for peace and justice is a lost and broken order. Taldor’s former region-states, now kingdoms of their very own, look down upon her with contempt. A fragile, smoldering truce with Qadira once again threatens to ignite the flames of war.

All this while worried rumors filter through the streets that dark cultists in Qadira, the Dark Jewel of the East, are creating a an airborne armada and a massive flying fortress with the firepower to destroy whole cities in its wake.

Meanwhile, far from the noble houses and stature of Oppara, the capital of Taldor, there are people living simple lives, far from the pain and fury of War. These common folk, going about their day to day lives, or who perhaps seek to remain out of sight of the local authorities, may soon find themselves thrust into the spotlight of history…

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Evil Grows Beneath The Earth

Why should anyone travel the cracked cobblestones of the Old Road? The fortress that once cast its shadow across the road does so no longer. Some whisper that the earth swallowed the dwarven fortress whole in retribution for foul rituals performed there.. Four brave adventurers resolved to discover the truth and find their fortunes set off down the Old Road weeks ago, but they never returned…Their townsfolk are worried. Will you answer the call?

The Requirements Will be:
Build: 20 point buy system OR 4d6, drop the lowest, for six stats.

RulesCore rulebook ONLY. Nothing "Unchained". No Elephant in the Room.

TraitEach character will be allowed (1) Trait. AP Traits will be considered on a case to case basis, but NOT automatically allowed. No Flaws.

Hit Points: Max at 1st, Rolled thereafter, minimum ½ HD per level.

Funds: Average starting gold for class

Posting Rate Post Daily if possible, min.5 posts per/week. Communicate if there will be absences if necessary. Life Happens.

The Party: 6 characters based on background and fit. Any characters not chosen will be first in line should other characters leave, and possibly offered NPC roles as the game progresses.

Alignments No evil. It’s up the the Players to explain why characters are staying.

Dieties: I will allow either Greyhawk or Golarion dieties for this game.

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"A ruined monument to folly and ego, the Shadowed Keep stands atop an isolated bluff deep in a mist‐wreathed forest. Sacked by marauding goblins decades ago the place was thought abandoned, but shadows now creep among the forest's great boles and footprints have appeared on the single, overgrown track leading to the keep. Travellers have begun to disappear with alarming regularity from the nearby road and the local folk fear some slumbering evil has claimed the ruin as its own."

"Dare you brave the terrors of the Shadowed Keep to crush that which lurks within or will darkness shroud the surrounding lands?

What is it? Raging Swan Press's 1st Edition Pathfinder adventure for first level characters. An homage, but not reboot, to the classic Keep on the Borderlands.

What is this? This is me seeing if there's any interest in a classic-feel game for 4 - 6 characters built with the CORE rules. Core races, classes, and whatnot. Old school feel, I guess you could say. It's rookie adventurers doing what they do.

The setting Honestly not all that sure yet. Might be Golarion, might be Raging Swan Press's setting. Overall, it'll be set in some little mostly - unexplored region of wherever it is. Borderlands is literally in the title, right?

What this is NOT. An actual recruitment, because I'm simply not prepared...yet. But I will be. Just wanted to see if there's anyone likely to want to play.

"The Village of Hommlet has grown up around a crossroads in a woodland. Once far from any important activity, it became embroiled in the struggle between gods and demons when the Temple of Elemental Evil arose but a few leagues away. Luckily for its inhabitants, the Temple and its evil hordes were destroyed a decade ago, but Hommlet still suffers from incursions of bandits and strange monsters..."

Ok, people, everyone check in! Roll Call!

"Many years ago, brave heroes put the denizens of the infamous Temple of Elemental Evil to the sword and sealed the entrance for what they thought would be forever. Now dark forces whisper again in the shadows of the once deserted temple...forces far more insidious and dangerous than any sane person could ever dream. Evil has risen again to threaten the village of Hommlet, and unhindered, the world!"

So here's the deal: I've always loved the Village of Hommlet, a 1st edition D&D module written by Gary Gygax himself. I have both run and played it when I was younger, and it holds a warm spot in my heart.

I've GM'd games on table-top for years, and have even run a couple in play-by-post, but never here, and never for Pathfinder, and I'm getting the itch to take a run at it. But how to go about it?

The idea:
I'm planning a highly-modified Village of Hommlet game, converted for the Pathfinder rules, with a long-term goal of playing all the way through the Temple of Elemental Evil. My goal is to try and have an old-school feel to this game (like Gary Gygax intended) and so I want to have as much of a "classic" feel as possible. As such, the game will be set in Greyhawk, Gygax's own setting, and I will only be accepting CORE classes, and a limited number of races.

I'm only promising Hommlet at this point, both for myself and my players. Obviously, it'll be up to the adventurers themselves to want to continue beyond that point...so it's my job to try and make sure they're having fun.

Rules: Pathfinder 1st edition
Party size: 4-5, Balanced group encouraged
Races: Human, Dwarf, Halfing, Elf, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, Gnome
Classes: CORE only, no Archetypes or Alternate features
Stats: 20 pt Buy (I'm not gonna make you all roll dice, old school. ;) )
Traits: 2
Alignment: No evil
Posting Rate: Standard 1/day, Once on Weekends (With communiation I can be reasonable.)

Currently the recruitment is solely for the players who already posted interest in my Village of Hommlet thread, and will remain that way unless the Temple kills them all off...er, I mean, unless we can't find enough players.

"The Village of Hommlet has grown up around a crossroads in a woodland. Once far from any important activity, it became embroiled in the struggle between gods and demons when the Temple of Elemental Evil arose but a few leagues away. Luckily for its inhabitants, the Temple and its evil hordes were destroyed a decade ago, but Hommlet still suffers from incursions of bandits
and strange monsters .."

So here's the deal: I've always loved this 1st edition, D&D module written by Gary Gygax himself, having both run and played it when I was younger, and it just plain holds a soft spot in my heart.

I've GM'd games on table-top for years, and have even run a couple in play-by-post, but never here, and never for Pathfinder, and I'm getting the itch to take a run at it. But how to go about it?

The idea:
So as not to get overwhelmed, IF I go about converting the original module over for Pathfinder, I'd want the game to have a very classic and slightly Greyhawk-y feel. It's something I miss and don't see much around here. (Not complaining, just noticing)

Rules: Pathfinder 1st edition
Party size: 4-5, Balanced group encouraged
Races: Human, Dwarf, Halfing, Elf, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, Gnome, Tiefling
Classes: CORE only, no Archetypes or Alternate features
Stats: 20 pt Buy
Traits 2
Alignment: No evil
Posting Rate: Standard 1/day, Once on Weekends

So, does this sound like something anyone here would be interested in even with the race/class restrictions listed above? Before anyone asks, I don't necessarily have any plans to run The Temple of Elemental Evil as a follow up...but if everyone has fun and stays with it...you never know.

Again, this is NOT a recruitment post. Just an interest check.