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Hey everyone! Please have your character mechanics up to par and ready to go by the 1st. I’ll be posting our first official gameplay post around 8-9AM EST on the 1st and we’ll continue on from there.
Hello! Thanks for taking a moment and checking this out. A few months ago, my friends bought the Core Rulebook, Advanced Player's Guide, and Bestiary for me. Life has made the prospect of a face-to-face game complicated, but it's given me time to read those books. And I'm hooked! I've been itching to try running a game, so I bought the pocket edition of Rise of the Runelords. I've read most of it, and I can't wait to play it. I wound up here, and read some articles about play-by-post campaigns. That sounds right up my alley! So here I am, with a semi-working knowledge of the rules and a general idea of how to run this thing. Before I go any farther, I wanna say that I'm committed to finishing the first book AT LEAST. Even if I decide I don't wanna do this at some point, we'll get through at least the first book before I call it quits. And every book we start, we'll finish. Pinky promise. And I've only got two of those, so you know I take them seriously. My Expectations:
- Go Read Doomed Hero's and Painlord's posts about play-by-posting in the General Discussion, if you haven't already. I'll be modeling this after the free advice available there. - Be Patient. I'm new to this, and I'm gonna mess stuff up. I know this game's been around for a bit, and I know some of y'all are gonna know this stuff inside and out. I'll get there if you give me time. - Post Post Post. Once people stop talking, everything breaks down. Any time you're working on something as a team. I'll hold you to the same standard I'll be holding myself: Post at least once a day, and more than that if you can. I know that I can post at least twice a day. If that is too frequent for you, you might want to skip on this. No hard feelings, I hope. I'm hoping for a specific pace, and I don't want either of us to feel like things are out of step. - Be Constructive. I have limited TTRPG experience, but I am very familiar with RP in general. It's a social form of play, and so you have to approach the play space with the intention of being social. Be diplomatic, mind your manners, and make your posts something the next person can build off of. YES AND. - Rules. I am still learning a lot here. I have a pretty good understanding of what to do, and I'm going to follow the rules the best I can. Sometimes the rules are a little unclear, and I will have to interpret the designers' intent. If you have problems with my interpretations, we can talk about it. But the game will move forward while we talk about it on the side. - Be neighborly. Be kind and compassionate to one another. Remember that there's a person on the other side of that avatar with feelings as rich and complex as your own. We all look different, have different backgrounds and identities, love different people, fight for different causes, and so on. But we all have the same heart. We all want love and acceptance. We all want respect and belonging. Keep that in mind before you hit that reply button.
The Mechanics:
- 15 Point Buy - Core "Civilized" Races Only - Only Official Paizo Pathfinder 1e material. a. Please don't get too buckwild on this. I'll do my very best to learn about everything your characters can do. But if you make some wild submission that pulls from 20 different books - I'm just being honest here - I'm gonna skip it. - Two Traits, but one of them should be a RotR campaign trait. UNLESS! You give me a compelling backstory that fleshes out why they are starting at the Swallowtail Festival. Then take whatever traits you want. - A minimum 10 sentence backstory. It's gonna take a while to get through this thing if we do all six books. Show me those writing skills! About the GM:
I'm the wonderful Lady Paracosmic! I'm 26 years old. I am a humble gas station clerk, keeping all manner of vices flowing during the graveyard shift. Before this, I was a barista for years. I love reading, exercise, and just being a nocturnal goof. I live a simple life, and a happy one. Recruitment will go on til the 28th! I'm looking for 4 people to start. We'll start playing on June 1st. |