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Please download and fully read the Player’s Guide. Strange Aeons is in many ways a departure from the traditional ‘format’ for character creation, so this is particularly important.

* Pathfinder 1st edition
* Level 1
* 20 point buy, attributes in the range of [7..18] after racial adjustments
* All CRB races and others on a case by case basis. 90% of the characters I personally make are human; this information is provided without further comment.
* All classes except summoner are allowed, where applicable unchained is preferred
* Paizo material only with one exception: Elephant in the room feat taxes.
* Two traits, one must be a campaign trait. No drawbacks.
* The Background Skills optional system is in effect
* Max starting gold for your class
* Firearm level is at emerging
* Max HP level at all levels
* Allowed alignments: LG, NG, CG, LN, N;
* As described in the Player’s Guide, your character begins as an amnestic. You can (and should) develop an extremely vague early backstory for your character, but this will rapidly become foggy and unclear past early childhood, and the last several years are a complete blank. It’s also possible that the memories your character does have aren’t entirely accurate; mental trauma is a heck of a thing.
* A profile is not required for submission but I want to see fully developed characters and builds with an idea of where you’d like to take them over the next few levels (i.e. are you building towards a prestige class or particular feats?) Gameplay hooks are appreciated.

* An AP is a multi-year commitment and keeping it going is a team effort. I’ll do everything I can as a GM to make combats smooth and the NPCs engaging but you need to put the effort in too. On average please try to post daily during the week and once per weekend. I understand real life happens so no worries if you go on holiday etc and can’t post for a while but I’d like to have a heads up on absences and a BOT ME section in your character profile to make life easier for me. This is especially important for casters.
* I don't use XP in my games, you'll level up at the appropriate story points.
* I’d like to see RP and party banter and not just at the beginning. I want to know what your character thinks about the situations they’re in even if it’s not something they’d say out loud. Make this a game you and I want to engage with! This goes doubly so with this particular AP, as your character’s fractured mental state means that they’re getting to know themselves as much as they are the rest of the party and the world around them.
* I haven’t run a PbP in the modern era of easy graphics, but I will be trying Google Sheets (+photoshop) for maps and graphical aids (I considered trying to use a Foundry VTT, but frowned and gave that up eventually). You’re going to move your character yourself (or even better draw a line showing the movement you plan so I can figure out AOOs) most of the time. Google Sheets has a good Android App which allows editing from a phone. I don’t mind moving things for you occasionally but please not every combat!
* Please keep a status line up to date on your forum profile, showing current AC, saves etc including effects from buffs. Example
* There are ways of manipulating the dice roller, please don’t. Please be consistent in the order in which you roll dice for your abilities. E.g. the order in which you roll for crits.

I’m MontCestMoi, a reference to an in-joke involving Mont St. Michel that only my wife could possibly get. I’m new to this board (or rather, I was new to the board two and a half years ago when I joined, and the Lovecraftian horror of working at a grocery store during the pandemic knocked me completely off it) but I’ve been playing online in play-by-post format games since the stone age of AOL, in 1995. My in-person tabletop has been meeting more-or-less every week since 2017, and I’ve run them through Shattered Star and we’re somewhere around halfway through Return of the Runelords (though I customized the heck out of it and we’re way off the rails).

When I’m not containing fictional worlds I sail, hike, and enjoy making things from wood.