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Wanted to get our hat in the ring with a thread, even if it's pretty preliminary at this point.

Name: Red Mercy
Alignment: Any good or neutral
Focus: Social gameplay and peacekeeping
Timezone: Guild leaders are PST, but we have community members everywhere.

Red Mercy (our working Company name) will be the presence in PFO of Mercy Gaming, the small gaming community I am a part of. We are a band of friends involved in a variety of games, who operate under a loose common banner. Where we have enough players interested we form guilds, and where we don't we see that members get involved with larger guilds togther, to keep us united. For the members of the Mercy Gaming community, it's more about the friendships and social aspects of the games, rather than the games themselves.

A good number of our members are keeping an eye on PFO as it develops, and a bunch of us kicked in together for the guild launch backing on Kickstarter to get an early hand in the game. For many of us who are older and grew up with MMOs before they were all themepark treadmills, the prospects PFO offers are more than enough to keep us hanging on.

We plan to organize the Company under our own banner, and then seek alliances (here in the early days as well as post launch) with other Companies that share our outlooks and goals. We are friendly and social players, our personal demeanor's leaning towards 'neutral good' and will most likely focus ourselves on helping to create a better community for other good or neutral players. (Even, I suppose, evil players in the long run, since a rising tide lifts all boats.) We see ourselves are offering our services out as as occasional for-hire merchants, bodyguards and entertainers, and occasionally doing those jobs for free, for our own nefarious RP purposes.

We had a fairly extensive lore written up for our Republic guild in SW:TOR, which we will most likely adapt for use in PFO. You can read that here. The short of our planned RP backstory is that we will be a band of civilian soldiers, merchants and doctors (or their PFO equivalent) who through some masterfully penned contrivance, end up working for the good of the common people outside the bureaucracy and red tape of those who should be tending to the flock but aren't. We are a citizen army of and for the people. We are not the strongest, the largest or the wealthiest. But we have the courage to do what others will not, so that the lowest can live without fear.

I'm sure this will get updated more as we get close to seeing an actual game, and as more is revealed about the game. In the meantime, we are just enjoying seeing what is in store, and hoping to meet other like minded individuals and Companies to share in the creation of this new world.

/salute


Are there any community recommended podcasts for Pathfinder games being played? Similar in vein to the WotC celebrity podcast or Nerd Poker, but running with the PF ruleset?

I have started running as a DM again recently, and the group I am with wanted to play PF, a system I am new to. I figure listening in on some games might be a helpful way to get more familiar with rules and regulations.

Thanks for any advice!