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Johann will be named "Lord Protector of the Black Forest" by His Imperial Majesty Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and granted the entire forest as a fief under his rule and protection as a vassal of the Empire.

Druids, rangers, skinshifters and Fey of all kinds will flock to his banner as a doughty forest militia par excellence... Awakened giant owls and eagles will serve as Lord Johann's airforce and carrier service...

The Fey residents of the Black Forest will be so happy to have the jolly, fair-minded Werebeast of the Schwarzwald as their new Lord (as opposed to the ill-tempered tyrant Grünerraver), they declare an unofficial holiday to mark his rise to the seat of Lord Protector of the Black Forest, a title recognized throughout the Holy Roman Empire, and also in the Seelie Court of the First World. Lord Johann's Day will be celebrated with honeyed mead drinking and bellyflops-from-the-rootbeer-falls contests at first, but the decidedly lethal bellyflop contests are soon relegated to only the diehard daredevils (mostly shifters like Johann, who can turn into a flying or swimming beast before hitting the rootbeer...)

In a couple months, my Friday night table top group, the Company of the Beryllium Dragon, will be 20th level, mythic tier 10, and ready for a grand finale: vs Hastur, The King in Yellow, in Dim Carcosa, a necropolis on Demhe, in the Aldebaran system.

I am already preparing my next table top campaign, going way back in time to the end of the Trojan War, circa 1184 BC.

The PCs are Achaians (Greeks) trying to sail home from Troy in a triaconter (early sea vessel with 30 oars and one square sail). While Odysseus, king of Ithica, is on his Odyssey, the PCs have an odyssey of their own, exploring rocky, cave-riddled, monster-infested isles in Oceanos (The Mediterranean), as the mysterious Sea People (a chaotic evil confederation of Dagon-worshipping pirates and sahuagin) are raiding and sacking the coastal cities.

What do y'all think of this as a prequel campaign for my Fairytale Earth setting?

Pencil sketch of the Mighty Ones battling Nalfeshnee Gravegobbler

The Male green dragon Grünerraver and the lusty female white dragon Iskalddød met on the field of battle in Normandy in the Spring of 1337, a century ago. Insults turned into clawing and biting and blasting away with breath weapons of acidic fog and freezing sleet, and the contest ran for over an hour, the male green dragon Grünerraver and the female white dragon Iskalddød grappling savagely in the air, before the two dragons became aroused, and to the embarrassment and dismay of Edward III and Phillip VI, began to mate in plain view of the many wealthy noble spectators who had paid the monarchs to watch the trial by combat...

A unique turquoise dragoness was conceived: the (now) adult turquoise dragon Grossevapour. After Iskalddød and Grünerraver each flew off to their separate lairs, without deciding the successor for the French Crown, the Hundred Years War commenced, and after a year of gestation, the unique turquoise dragon Grossevapour was hatched in Iskalddød's lair in Norway.

Cast out when she reached young adulthood, she sought refuge in the lair of her father, Grünerraver, in the Black Forest, but her sire found her intolerable and cast her out to make her own lair in Ben Nev, the highest Peak of the Scottish Highlands...

BTW, Lord Perpireen, today I'm running a one-shot for my buddy Ray's Viking inquisitor/paladin and Lord P is the semi-antagonistic quest giver in a tricky fey way lol...

Mwikali wants Africa free of foreign slave trade. So much so she would go to war with Portugal itself.

Thinking of something awesome for this, whether as a montage or played out, that I think you will like. I've been watching Disney + (Love the Mandalorian!), and revisiting the Jungle Book and The Lion King...

Happy New Year, my friends! I wish an awesome, productive joyful 2020 and beyond to all of us.

I'd like to express my genuine deep gratitude to each of you for staying at my table for as long as you all have, and consistently contributing to what has become one of my most favorite campaigns I have run in my 37 years of DMing!

I know all of you have full and often hectic lives in RL, so I really appreciate that you've stuck with me and I hope we all stay in for the long haul. Even though I've been DMimg almost 4 decades, this group has shown me that I can still improve and sometimes make mistakes. Thanks for staying in despite my occasional heavy hamfisted railroads and Mary Sue NPCs! LOL! As you can tell, I'm enamoured with this setting and our story, and I promise to keep providing my best as long as you are all into it!

Sköl!

I was curious about how many gameplay posts we are up to if counting all three tables since the beginning, and so far, 7,851 posts! :o

We will soon surpass both Tables 1 and 2 with this combined table (2,644 was table 1)!

As Johann activates his bear and cobra minor aspects, he moves to whatever enemy is closest and bites down as hard as he can...

[dice=Bite PA vital strike Attack & damage]d20+17; 6d6+18+d6 str 6 bab 11 pwrattk -2 size-1 amulet 3; 1.5str 9 pwrattk 6 amulet 3 amulet acid d6

COBRA JOHANN's fangs sink into the near succubus' rump with relish, and she sighs with equal masochistic satisfaction as his fangs incise her buttocks...

MmmmOoooohhh! Yes, daddy!

Congrats! That's awesome!

INITIATIVES:

EALSEALF!
ESSEL!
SVEN!
SPIDER SWARM!
MYDRAVOS!

EEEEEK!!

Okay, after this combat, I will roll all future initiatives.

Huzzah!! The Boys Are Back In Town! Everyone gains The Boon of the Brothers Reunited: the next time you are below half your maximum hit point total, you recall the joy of this reunion of Bear and Fox and are fully healed of all damage! One time use, you can choose to use it when reduced to below half max hp.

An armed bathhouse guard approaches the side of the hot bath where Ashok has just been pulled into the healing water by Rowena...

Hey! No armor armor or clothing in the baths, please... And did you pay the attendant for a bath, sir!?

ROUND 2:

Rowena screams in rage and swings her earth breaker at the axe beak to her left again... Blessed raging Power Attacking earth breaker 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19 strikes for 2d6 + 8 ⇒ (6, 2) + 8 = 16 bludgeoning damage!

@Michael Johnson 66: Rules question, Divine Herbalist makes Profession (Herbalist) a Cha based skill instead of a Wis based one. The Wasted Oracle's curse says I get a -4 on all Cha based skill checks (except intimidate). So according to the RAW, I would get a -4 on all profession (Herbalist) checks. I was wondering if you could make an exception in this case? If not that's fine too.

No exceptions from RAW, sorry.

Michael Johnson 66 wrote:

Ealsealf Greenleaves wrote:

While I was reading up on Bast lore, I learned that there are two forms of the goddess, an earlier, more warlike, lion headed form, and a later, more gentle, house cat headed form. Which one is my patron?

Both. She has both aspects. And Ealsealf doesn't necessarily have to worship Bast, unless you like the idea. Bast chose them, but they can worship whomever seems appropriate, or no deity if they prefer. Fey in my world often give fealty to Titania and Oberon (queen and king of fairies) or one of the Norse or Celtic gods.

I wasn't going to worship her, just reading up on lore :P

Probably got lost in here somewhere but i'm still wondering if we are using traits.

Yes, 2 traits

16RP Dwarven Oread for you’re review

First of all Oreads are 6RP. I replaced SLA with Stability. Both 1 RP, but feels more *dwarven* with that

I’ll be taking Granite Skin and Stone in the Blood alternative race traits. While technically free, race build says it is worth +3 race points. So it becomes 9 total. Get 7 to play with.

So get to add 7

+4 Race Points for Advanced Stats “Pick either mental or physical ability scores. Members of this race gain a +2 bonus to all of those scores, a +4 bonus to one score of the other type, and a –2 penalty to one other ability score of the other type.”

So +4 Int -2 Cha, +2 Str/Dex/Con

+2 Static Bonus Feat: Dwarf Blooded (Your dwarven heritage manifests in two ways. First, your speed is never modified by armor or encumbrance, as the dwarf slow and steady racial trait. Second, you gain the stonecunning dwarf racial trait.)

This technically could have been gotten with 1RP, but I think it works out fairly at 2. Especially with the advanced stats.

1 RP: Dual Minded +2 Will

I couldn’t afford Hardy because of the static feat and giving myself 2 less race points for the alternatives. The +2 Will represents that instead.

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And there we go. A 16RP Dwarven Oread. I’ll make the Occultist Mechanics soon, so long as this meets you’re approval

Looks great!

Meanwhile, in the fey demiplane of Gooseland within the Black Forest, the stalwart heroes Johann Kaltgeboren and Lord Perpireen McGibel, having already reassembled the Wall King's favored intelligent egg-shaped porcelain golem Humpty Dumpty (who'd shattered following a catastrophic fall from the Great Wall of Gooseland, and not all the King's cavalry or other esteemed men of lore had been able to put him back together, until our heroes arrived with the sovereign glue in Rumplestilskin's rucksack), and having driven the Big Bad Wolf and his pack away from Rapunzel's Tower, the Bear and the Sprite now wander into the spiderweb-tangled Tuffetlands, where giant spiders weave silken webs between the green tuffets, forming an eerie maze and lair for a large colony of giant spiders.

When King Humphry X of the Great Wall had rewarded them for putting Humpty Dumpty back together again, he had mentioned that sovereign glue such as the heroes used was made with giant spider silk, and that alchemists and wizards would pay handsomely for giant spider spinarets. He then told the heroes where such could be harvested aplenty by two doughty stalwarts such as they: the dreaded Tuffetlands. And so Johann and Lord Perpireen have wandered south from the Great Wall into this cobweb-shrouded grassland, in hope of getting rich killing giant spiders. They drink antitoxins as they enter the labyrinth of tuffets canopied with giant spiderwebs...

Or perhaps the march sounds a bit more like this...

2:30 PM on Wednesday, 23rd January, in the desert that was not yet called Arizona:

AAA-WWWOOOOOOGGGAAAAAHHH!!! GRUFF!! GRUFF!! HHAAA-WWWOOOOOOOOGGGAAAAAAHHH!!!

** spoiler omitted **

The massive, spiky-shelled, ankylosaur-like kaiju charges toward Gojira with feet that trample the arid dunes and shake boulders loose from the canyons! It launches its impossibly colossal body toward Gojira, curled up in an armored ball, like a massive, spiky armadillo! *KRAKA-DOOOOOOOSSSHHH!!!*

Anguirus bowls into Gojira, piercing the King of Kaiju's scaly hide, and invoking his ire!!

HHHOOOOONNNKKK!!!! BRRREEEAAAAAAAARRRRKKKK!!!

Gojira tries correcting his playmate's antisocial behavior with a blast of his atomic breath... *BBBZZZZAAAAAAAPPP!!!

GODZILLA! by Blue Oyster Cult...

2:30 PM on Wednesday, 23rd January, in the desert that was not yet called Arizona:

AAA-WWWOOOOOOGGGAAAAAHHH!!! GRUFF!! GRUFF!! HHAAA-WWWOOOOOOOOGGGAAAAAAHHH!!!

The massive, spiky-shelled, ankylosaur-like kaiju charges toward Gojira with feet that trample the arid dunes and shake boulders loose from the canyons! It launches its impossibly colossal body toward Gojira, curled up in an armored ball, like a massive, spiky armadillo! *KRAKA-DOOOOOOOSSSHHH!!!*

Anguirus bowls into Gojira, piercing the King of Kaiju's scaly hide, and invoking his ire!!

THE KNIGHTS CHAMPIONS FIND THE BLACK PYRAMID OF KRONOS by MJ66

Many thanks to all the players who have stayed with me for 7 months of great and memorable fun! I salute you, Cardinal D'Borja. I salute you, Lord McGibel. I salute you, Emir Zagathoth, and you, too, Mwikali. I salute you, Mighty Johann! Your characters are still on the path to deification in my campaign, a hard won goal indeed!

I also welcome and am grateful to the newcomers who are willing to give my campaign a go, and help us continue to progress this epic saga! Old friends and new friends together, the Order of Champions!

I too am saddened by Stan Lee's passing, but the man lived as old as anyone could expect to live. Excelsior and 'Nuff Said, Stan!

I am also greatly saddened by the departure of the Fox, Bear's best friend. We had a lot of chemistry. So many of my games that I am in recently have been bleeding people. I have lost three friends in last week for "work and other responsibilities".

I will miss Bear and Fox's synergy as well. But the legend has been born, and in another six centuries, my Fairytale Earth will be amused by Cartoon Network's animated show Bear and Fox. :)

Johann speaks in his parseltongue voice! "Ssss....sssSS... thissss!"" Zag, pull on my new crab claw... this weapon will enable you to move freely in the water...!

As cool as I think the extra crab pincer is, surely one of my companions would be more properly helped by the weapon! If you could, MJ, give it's stat block again?

Johann swims toward the sharks and sahaugin on the right! Surely, if any of his teammates don't want to be pulled along, they had better let go now! Free action to release and not be dragged to melee

Johann gets within 10 feet of a sharks and bites!

[dice=Bite Attack 1 & damage]d20+11; 3d6+14+d6 str 5 bab 8 pwrattk -2 size-1 amulet 1; 1.5str 7 pwrattk 6 amulet 1 amulet acid d6

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He is also well set-up to release his barrage of AoOs!

[dice=Bite AoO & damage 1]d20+13; 3d6+6+d6 str 5 bab 8 size-1 amulet 1 form 2 pwrattk -2 ; 1.5str 7 amulet 1 amulet acid d6 pwrattck 6

[dice=Bite AoO & damage 2]d20+13; 3d6+6+d6

[dice=Bite AoO & damage 3]d20+13; 3d6+6+d6
[dice= confirm]d20+13; 3d6+6+d6

Cobra Johann's deadly fangs pierce the nearest tiger shark deeply, killing it almost instantly!

As a sahuagin attempts to swim in close enough to stab the deadly serpent with its trident, Cobra Johann lashes out First AoO and strikes it lifeless!

A second shark comes within Cobra Johann's superior reach, and he strikes again, rendering this one lifeless and belly up as well second AoO...

A second sahuagin gets too close, and *SNAP!!* the jaws of Cobra Johann decapitate the sea devil in one bite third AoO!

ADVENTURE MAP OF LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS with 56 number-keyed encounter areas to explore!

The wreck of the Alanqilis is area 1, where the adventure begins! The conch shell horn was sounded from what sounds like area 35, one of several temples to the sea god Poseidon... A school of fish-like humanoids armed with bronze tridents approaches from that direction, swimming ever nearer, along with a school of tiger sharks that appear to be under the fish-folks' control!

Down in the depths of the briny deep
Where sharks and krakens never sleep
But swim a constant waltz of Death
In waters cold and void of breath
The ship of heroes down did sink
The ship and crew the sea did drink!
And on the seafloor the ship did wreck
The crewmen were glad not to break their neck!

The heroes found themselves most apt to ride
Their serpentine friend who through the waves did slide
Like eel or sea serpent born to the sea
Brave Johann could slither about quite free!
So Fox and Rabbi, Witch and Priest,
Orc Warlord and blue lady of the East,
All hung on to Johann Snake
For to travel swiftly's sake!

The Fairies two did find their wings
As useful for swimming as for aerial things
And so did the band of heroes brave
Swim off to explore the undersea grave
Of a kingdom old and mighty indeed!
The Lost City of Atlantis they'd found, they rede
So off to plunder its riches they rode
But the omens of Fate did not well bode...

If Zag sires blue dragon blooded half orc children, I will for sure run another campaign set in 1455, when they are 18 and ready to start adventuring lol

The “shepherd” smiles fondly at Lucius with a paternal expression uncharacteristic for one so apparently young (14 years or so), takes the masterwork greatsword, forged from Damascus steel by Bavarian dwarf smiths in the papal foundry at Sant’Angelo Castle the year before, and makes a few dazzling flourishes, brandishing the greatsword with all the grace and skill of the finest Italian swordmasters!

As he does so, the blade begins to glow with a pearlescent radiance, like heavenfire dancing along the steel edges!

He returns the blade to Cardinal Lucius with a bow...

Thank you, Your Grace, for your kind offer of hospitality, and for humoring a foolish young shepherd such as I am... He winks at Lucius, then turns and strolls off down the via, vanishing around a corner into an alley...

The greatsword seems to vibrate with sacred energy in Lucius’ hands... and a name has been graven by magic on the blade: “Dies Irae”!

Lucius’ greatsword is a +1 holy greatsword named Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)!

Hey folks, about 40 posts behind! Playing catch up now...

Welcome back my friend, to the show that never ends! We’re so glad you could attend... step inside, step inside!

Bursting up out of the sand to surround the adventurers and their mounts are a trio of crafty arachnid hunters of goliath proportions!

A giant scorpion, and two giant spiders, one the size of a man, the other as big as a horse, menace the party!

ARACHNID AMBUSH

Just as the crew men Finnish their search and start back up. Form his hiding spot he casts with a wave of his hand, Telekinetic projectile.

Sending a block and tackle their way.

TH 1d20+4 DMG 1d6

The block and tackle slam into the back of one of the crewmen as he follows the other up the stairs!

In Arabic: OOF!! ALLAH PRESERVE US!! IT IS A GENIE, OR A VENGEFUL GHOST!!

The two crewmen nearly fall over each other as they scramble to flee the cargo hold!

RIGHT TOMB HELD RING AND FIRE OPAL

I got y’all in my trap muahahaha

A gold shekel for a night's sleep! Highway robbery! That must be the tourist price...

It’s the pasty infidel price lol

I feel like this is the coolest campaign setting I’ve ever used, and it’s just the real world with all its myths and magic made true lol...

The best part is the immersion and context... I save so much time and work describing history and geography I’d have to explain if this was a home brew fantasy setting. Everyone who comes to this setting already has a wealth of knowledge and frame of reference to draw on for RP... this can also keep me more on my toes as there will always be some area a player knows more about than I do! Lol... my solution is to let it be so, draw on the knowledge of the players, and let this be a shared setting we cooperatively build together, resulting in something far better than a lone GM could make up.

Meanwhile, in the Black Forest of the Holy Roman Empire...

*sigh!* I’m bored. The scheme to hold the Emperor for ransom in the cloud giants’ castle was foiled by that uppity cat-wizard, Prospero Blue, and his goody-two-shoes paladin friend, Tunes D’Holiday... What new trouble can I stir up?... I miss old Johann. He was always fun to pull pranks on... wonder what he’s doing right now?... Well, i’ll just pull out my trusty crystal ball and have a peek...

The bored and mischievous Rumplestilskin produces a clear orb, into which he gazes as he chants an incantation to scry on his old pal Johann...

Casts scry on Johann, who gets a Will saving throw vs DC 18 to resist...

At around four hours past noon, as the sun is slowly sinking westward, a winged shadow crosses the deck... Circling some hundred feet above the Sereia is an albatross...

It spies a suitable target--Lord Perpireen, in the crow's nest--and excretes a payload over the little sprite!

Albatross poo 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29...a direct hit!

Lord Perpireen is splattered by a glob of white-and-green albatross droppings!

In Portuguese: HEEHEEEE!!! BULL'S EYE!!! I AM THE BEST BOMBARDIER!!

OOH-OOH-AH-AH!!! SURPRISE ROUND!! EEEEK!!!

GIOVANNA!
VOLREG! SURPRISED!
WULFGAR!
LORD PERPIREEN! SURPRISED!
ALTIN! SURPRISED!
SULAYMAN!
MWIKALI! SURPRISED!
GIANT CRABS!

EEEEEEEEK!!!!

Lol... Johann and Ogon Fox have just changed history in my Fantasy Earth... Instead of the violent puppet show Punch and Judy, we have Bear and Fox lol :-)

In Game MJ66:

Michael Johnson 66 wrote:

BATTLE MAP FROM ANOTHER ANGLE

CLEARER SHOT OF BATTLE MAP FROM FIRST VIEW

Hey look a battle map, I'm impressed! Sorry I've been playing PBP for almost four years, but haven't sat at a table with an actual map since college. Sinse it was the year 'Another One Bites the Dust' came out as a single (yeah that's right boys and girls, a single, vinyl and all) I'll let you do the math.

Hehe! Great song for a battle, Another One Bites the Dust... Love Queen!

Now that I know how to link photos, we will have battle mat shots for all combats and complex tactical situations. Should help visualization and immersion.

EEEK!!! EEEEEK!!!

LORD PERPIREEN ON 24!
SULAYMAN ON 23!
MEN-AT-ARMS ON 17!
GOBLIN MINSTRELS ON 12!
VOLREG ON 10.5!
WULFGAR ON 10.2!
MWIKALI ON 10.1!
PRINCE HENRY ON 9!
ALTIN ON 7!

ROUND ONE! DING! DING! OOH! OOH! AH!

@ Lord Perpireen: The piper goblin is playing his fife, thinking: Any moment now... That's good, drink again, idiot! Yes! Yes! ... Uh oh... He's looking at me... Come on, you stubborn ass! That's enough ettercap venom to drop a horse! Fall over, you bastard!

Nuper rosarum flores by Franco-Flemish composer Guillaume DuFay

Triste plaisir et douleureuse joye by Dutch composer Gilles Binchois

I am happy to have such a dedicated GM. I just had a PBP game collapse on itself- because the GM stopped posting after a mere 2 months. 2 months! We hadn't even made it out of the first area.

I'm looking forward to a real game, with active players and GM!

Thank you! I have run 3 PBP prior to this.

Post-Apocthulhu ran from 1st to 20th over about 3 years, with some players dropping and new ones replacing, but a core group faithfully played throughout the whole thing. We tried out Mythic Adventures rules with that campaign, and things were pretty over the top by the time they were 20th level, mythic rank 10 lol... But they needed that king of ridiculous power to have a chance against the Great Old Ones they fought and defeated, including Hastur, Yig, Shub-Niggurath, and finally Cthulhu and 9 star-spawn lol... Billybrainpan played Koran "the Hammer" in that one, a tiefling berserker (after ACG came out, I allowed him to rework Koran as a bloodrager, if memory serves, and he also took a level or two of cleric of Thor, maybe? Can't recall for sure, but he was a beast to begin with, and even more so once he acquired Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor himself!) I have written a drawn 200+ pages of a graphic novel about this epic campaign, which I will someday publish. It will be called The Fierce Ones (the name given the party by their monstrous foes lol)...

Medieval Europe PBP ran about 2 years, with dedicated players that included Grimdog/aka Paddy the Loon, playing as Irish tiefling rogue Paddy. Now the adventures of that party, called the Lucky Fools (originally the Lusty Fools), are novelized in my self-published novella Apocalypse Anon: The Lucky Fools, for the kindle on Amazon.com... That group went from 1st to 10th level (no mythic this time lol), and the posting rate eventually died out til only me and 1 or 2 players were still posting, so it was never concluded as a PBP, but I felt the story needed a proper ending, so I wrote the novella.

The third PBP was a departure from my fantasy Earth homebrew, as Swords & Superscience PBP was set in Golarion's Numeria, and used source materials from Paizo's Iron Gods AP. It was fun while it lasted, about 6 months I think? It was the shortest lived of my three PBP, and I take some of the blame as GM for not keeping up as regularly with posting as I did the previous games. Had some RL stuff distracting me, and the players also seemed to have RL stuff come up to delay posting, so it kind of petered out lol... GM Panic was one of the better players from that one, and faithfully posted frequently, RPing expertly, so I'm happy that he submitted Fay Lord Perpireen McGibel for this one!

I feel like I learnt a lot about running a fun PBP from those first 3, and I have high hopes that this campaign is as successful as the modern era Post-Apocthulhu PBP was. I like GMing parties from 1st to 20th before ending a campaign, so I use fast track XP. This seems fast to some of my table top players (the ones who like being the same level for several sessions, or are lazy about leveling up lol... I'm talking about you, Ray!), but I think it is a good pace for PBP.

Within the week, I will make difficult decisions about which 12 submissions I invite, and which 6 will be at table 1 (Rome), and which will be at table 2 (Portugal).

I want to thank everyone who has shown interest, complimented the campaign concept, and especially all who submitted a PC and backstory. Every last one was compelling to me, such that I wish I could include them all in an epic multitable supercampaign, but my modest intellect will be challenged enough trying to run two separate parties simultaneously, keeping track of separate timelines, events, character actions, etc.

I feel up to the challenge, as the reward will be well worth the effort. My world will have new adventure tales to tell, and the eventual combining of the two tables sounds like it will be fun and satisfying from both story and metagame perspectives.

I will make a solemn promise to be fair, but indifferent as a force of nature. Any victory you win will be truly won, often hard won, and therefore sweeter for the potential of failure. I never try to kill a PC, but the environment often does, aided by poor dice luck and/or player recklessness. I won't save your PCs from death, if Fate and chance decree it, nor will I leave paths to certain doom unmarked by warnings of one kind or another.

I also promise to keep as swift a pace as possible, including botting tardy posters to move combats along. As long as at least a few players remain engaged and active, I promise to keep GMing this PBP as far as 20th level, which my Post-Apocthulhu PBP took about three years to do! I hear such longevity is rare in a PBP, haven't actually researched it myself.

Within the week, I will make difficult decisions about which 12 submissions I invite, and which 6 will be at table 1 (Rome), and which will be at table 2 (Portugal).

I want to thank everyone who has shown interest, complimented the campaign concept, and especially all who submitted a PC and backstory. Every last one was compelling to me, such that I wish I could include them all in an epic multitable supercampaign, but my modest intellect will be challenged enough trying to run two separate parties simultaneously, keeping track of separate timelines, events, character actions, etc.

I feel up to the challenge, as the reward will be well worth the effort. My world will have new adventure tales to tell, and the eventual combining of the two tables sounds like it will be fun and satisfying from both story and metagame perspectives.

I will make a solemn promise to be fair, but indifferent as a force of nature. Any victory you win will be truly won, often hard won, and therefore sweeter for the potential of failure. I never try to kill a PC, but the environment often does, aided by poor dice luck and/or player recklessness. I won't save your PCs from death, if Fate and chance decree it, nor will I leave paths to certain doom unmarked by warnings of one kind or another.

I also promise to keep as swift a pace as possible, including botting tardy posters to move combats along. As long as at least a few players remain engaged and active, I promise to keep GMing this PBP as far as 20th level, which my Post-Apocthulhu PBP took about three years to do! I hear such longevity is rare in a PBP, haven't actually researched it myself.

Are we doing background skills?

Yes.

Did someone say Tiefling, humm I think His lordship may have a new bud

I foresee much mischief from such a duo lol