We're looking for one new player for a recently started PbP on RPoL.net set in Kobold Press's Midgard setting, around and within the city of Triolo, where the party's allegiance mostly coincides.
Link: Midgard - Adventures and Other Tales
Using mostly standard Pathfinder rules, starting at Level 1 with abilities at 20 point buy. We're looking for a compatible 5th player to shore up the roster and help keep a steady baseline momentum. Any coverage of party roles/skills is a bonus.
Knowledge of the setting is not necessary. In fact, three of four current players are new to the setting.
Commitment is casual, at about a post a week. The current players appear to be in this for the long haul (knock on wood). And the GM as well, if I do say so myself. One of the players has been my PbP DM for three years and counting, I'll try to return the favor and not be flaky. Thus, the relaxed commitment of about one post a week, sometimes more sometimes less (I will try for the former and less of the latter).
Adventure mix will probably lean towards roleplaying/exploring/pursuing personal character goals, but I do plan to include combat and dungeon crawling. I may adapt some PF modules or KP adventures as a framework for later adventures, but we're still at the introduction stage.
Current characters are:
- Human Male Sorcerer, aspiring privateer and merchant-noble, former shipmate of minotaur barbarian
- Roachling Male Witch, a traveling merchant of questionably desirable foodstuff
- Minotaur Female Barbarian, former sailor, then galley slave, now bodyguard/hired help for roachling merchant
- Aasimar Male Paladin, honor guard member for a diplomatic envoy from a neighboring kingdom
Most Pathfinder (Paizo) classes accepted (Core, Adv. Players, Ult. Magic, Adv. Class), most Kobold Press classes as well (Class Compendium). Exceptions include gunslinger, summoner, and savant, for either setting or book-keeping reasons.
Most Midgard appropriate races accepted (unless they're already present, also no Gearforged, they're reserved). Everything else on a case-by-case basis.
General preference for human (setting is human-centric after all), or other non-represented Midgard race. General preference for a class not present in party. As you can see, most of the existing characters are archetypal (in the classic sense) [::hint::]. Simpler for one to get a concept going than to to list out everything I'm accepting. I'm somewhat lenient on these things, but conserve your weird (Standard Race & Class > Unusual Race with Standard Class or Standard Race with Unusual Class > Unusual Race & Class).
Before sending a Request to Join through RPoL, please provide a brief character concept here (a few lines will do). Please mention intended character race, gender, class/archetype, and background, including (but not mandatory) potential links to existing party members or ties to elements of Triolo or Midgard (for those familiar with the setting or want to take a shot at fitting something into the locale or setting).
Triolo is part of the Seven Cities and is the capital of a mercantile maritime republic set a midst a fractured collection of six other oft feuding city-states, over a backdrop of the ambitious and treasure-hungry Mharoti (Dragon) Empire expanding from the east.
The Midgard setting has a home for most of the standard medievalesque fantasy concepts that one could find in other comparable settings like Golarion or Forgotten Realms (Northern raiders, reaver dwarves, cantonal dwarves, noble elfmarked, steppe barbarian, mystical Nurians (Egyptian-based), conflicted corsairs, Free City urbanites, etc.). If it can work in those other settings, it can probably work in Midgard. Feel free to ask questions, we can work something out.
Characters will need a reason (any reason really) to be in Triolo (given it's a major trade port and diplomatic center, shouldn't be hard) and not of ill-repute enough to draw scrutiny from the naval officers the party is currently interacting with and the party's generally good tendancies. They could be freelance mercenary types and don't have to be saintly paragons. Besides, there is flexibility on the morality scale if going by Midgard's pantheon.
Thanks for looking over my recruitment post. Hope to see one of you in the game soon.