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On the western coast of the Isle of Kortos, where once stood a mighty siege town, rests the flooded port city of Diobel. The city's inner harbor is protected by a giant maze of shipwrecked war-barges, crumbling walls, and haphazard jetties of iron and wood. These defenses prevent larger trading vessels and warships from entering the harbor itself, and the deeper waters of the bay are often crowded with ships at anchor. Inside the maze lies a wide bay called the Shallows, which provides calm waters and safe passage to the smaller rowboats and flat-bottomed cargo vessels. The Shallows flow into a series of wooden and stone walkways, which stretch below the city, possessing various docks and bunkers called the Underdocks. Most of the town stands suspended on pylons above the Underdocks, or hangs precariously on the rocky shore of the bay. Diobel has become a bustling trade town controlled by the merchant lords of the Kortos Consortium, who oversee much of Absalom's mining, farming, trapping, and fishing industry. While on the surface the Kortos Consortium is an open merchant's collective, accepting anyone willing to pay dues, it is in fact a semi-covert crime syndicate specializing in running contraband in and out of Absalom. Smugglers and food merchants have preferred to ship goods to Absalom through Diobel for centuries in order to avoid Absalom's stiff harbor taxes, its law enforcement, and its criminal element. This popularity has made Diobel one of the largest markets for contraband in the Inner Sea region. Ships anchor in the harbor and transport their goods to shore over the Shallows in large barges. Traders meet with caravan captains at the Harpy's Gate to arrange overland transport. The caravans between Diobel and Absalom, which trade furs, timber, and food from independent farms along the dangerous route, are a major source of Absalom's food supply. Lately, a massive, wealthy shipping alliance from Cheliax, the Golden Cartel, is trying to take part of the Kortos Consortium’s hegemony in Diobel and the surrounding areas. The Cartel is backed by the Thrune royal family and, while maintaining a hyper-professional public image, word on the street is that they frequently play hardball. This week, aquatic monsters have been appearing in the Underdocks and attacking random citizens. Obviously, this is bad for business. Both the Kortos Consortium and the Golden Cartel have publicly sworn they will help with these matters. The eyes of the people are watching closely to see which of the great companies will deliver on their promise, fastest and best. (A mixture of quotes from the wiki and my own materials) This will be a rotating-GM, gestalt adventure. Everyone who applies to this game is signing up to be a GM. I will GM a short quest first and then swap my character in while the second active GM swaps their character out. I will provide more guidelines for GMs before game start. Build details:
Start at level 2 Max HP at each level 30 point-buy Gestalt Background skills in place Elephant in the Room Feat Taxes rules in place (blogpost version) Variant multiclassing allowed All Paizo races except those listed as higher than 20 racial points (Standard races don’t have a value listed and are obv. fine). If you are playing a race that is more flavorful than powerful (esp for your concept), you may request some flexibility in moving around your ability score bonus/penalties, swapping out an ability for one of the same value in race points, etc. All Paizo classes allowed Emerging guns Two traits. Ask if you want to take a campaign trait as some of those are crazy strong. Start with standard WBL of 1000 gp. You may craft your equipment ahead of time but you may not employ any hacks that can lead to indefinitely massive wealth (e.g., hedge magician trait is fine but you can’t say that you crafted at 45% thanks to hedge magician, sold the item for 50%, and rinsed and repeated to get indefinite wealth. This is probably obvious but I’m being a little paranoid.) You may craft equipment for other party members IF you have a shared backstory of working with them. It is recommended (but not required), that you tip the crafter some percentage of the value of the item for spending their feat(s) to craft for you. There are certain, notoriously broken or problematic options in Pathfinder 1st edition, like Sacred Geometry, Blood Money, etc. I’m not making an exhaustive ban list right now. Feel free to choose strong options, just be thoughtful, feel free to ask, and know that a really exploitative build choice might decrease your chances of selection and/or be ruled against by GMs after the fact. In general, I look more favorably on OP teamwork, like haste, rather than OP stuff that steps on the toes of other party members. Retraining is generally allowed for zero GP, time, and trainer requirements IF it is for a non power-gamey reason, e.g., an in-character event motivates it or you realized one of your choices was a trap. Retraining for power-gamey reasons, e.g., a feat was useful for a few levels but isn’t anymore, is allowed but for the normal requirements of GP, time, and trainer requirements. Hero points are in use but they are only gained when the active GM awards them for good roleplay, a heroic achievement, some really nice OOC work to help the party organize their notes, etc.
Backstory:
Backstories should be about two paragraphs, minimum. I prefer backstories to be written in narrative format as it’s more fun to read and gives me a sense for how you write/RP. Here are some questions of which I should be able to answer most, if not all, about your character after reading their backstory. 1. How did your character acquire their skills and values?
Game format details:
I will GM the first round and ask for a volunteer to be party scribe (to put XP and loot drops into the spreadsheet and write a summary of the quest in the party chronicle). Then we will determine who will be active GM and who will scribe for the second round and proceed with that quest. The Kortos Consortium will award 50% of the GP (and GM will automatically require 50% of the XP) associated with moving from current level to current level+1 (I will provide these numbers). The rest of the GP and the XP will depend on what extra the party earns. The active GM is encouraged to include some pieces of loot and XP that the party will almost definitely get and some that are bonuses for doing an extra good/creative job. E.g., the GM can award XP for good roleplay, have a small, hidden cache of extra loot that requires a knowledge check to realize it is there, etc. The active GM makes their own rulings on specific issues that affect what is happening right in the moment, e.g., “can I use Profession (beggar) to tell how rich the man is?” When questions are somewhat broader, such as whether a build combination works, it will be put to a vote. A dice roll will decide tiebreakers. Decided which purvey covers a given issue will generally be left to the active GM; as the organizing GM, I will insist something be put to a vote if necessary but I would very much prefer not to exercise this responsibility. Active GMs and players are expected to maintain a very collegial attitude. GMs can provide stiff challenges but should not otherwise be an adversarial GM, trying to fudge things to keep the players from having “too much fun” or succeeding at doing their thing. Players should respect the active GM’s authority and ask questions about interpretations and what is allowed, not fire objections/complaints at the GM. Active GMs have a free hand in the plot of their quests. They should just try to build on the plot that has come before and try to avoid completely undoing key plot elements that other GMs have developed. Maps: Google slides that will be editable by everyone. XP and loot drops: Google sheets. Party chronicle: Google doc. Everyone should post at least once per weekday and once per weekend. The active GM should post a bit more often than this. Player-GMs that ghost or are consistently too slow will be replaced (after warnings, communication, etc.)
Sensitive content parameters:
Sexual content: I’m not very interested in having this in my TTRPGs. If you want to have a romantic relationship with an NPC or another PC, that may be ok. But most physical affection besides a hug, peck on the cheek, whatever, can happen off-camera. As for sexual violence and sexual harassment, I’m not interested in having those in my game. Violence: Violence is an integral part of Pathfinder. But I’m not a big fan of any graphic descriptions of harm to children or graphic descriptions of torture.
Deities:
The standard Golarion pantheon is in play. However, I don’t require clerics to worship one of those deities. If you want to worship a lesser-known deity that you’ve homebrewed or a concept, you can. This means you can combine alignment and domains/subdomains as you like. However, you won’t get to pick any weapon you want as your deity’s favored weapon and you won’t have a deific obedience option associated with your deity/concept except maybe something basic chosen by me. How to make a complete application:
1. In a Paizo alias, a well-formatted character sheet. 2. In a Paizo alias, a nice backstory. 3. In the application post, a brief description of what kind of quest you would run when it’s your turn. 4. In your application post, a brief description of your GMing philosophy. 5. In your application post, a brief description of your philosophy for GMing PBP, specifically. 6. (Optional) In your application post, link to a campaign in which you were a good PBP player or (even better) GM. Soon, I will make my own character sheet, backstory, etc., and present it as if I were applying to the game. This example should clarify more what I am looking for.
As questions make me realize further things I should include, I’ll put this information, an FAQ, and the most up-to-date list of application statuses in the Campaign Info tab here. In addition to myself, I will select 3-6 others (but probably not as high as 6). Recruitment will close in at 5 pm (EST) on November 14th. Gameplay will begin as soon as the group is selected. 
I would like to run a rotating GMs table of a PF 1e, Gestalt, Adventurer's Guild (of some sort). Each mission would be short and relatively simple with about four encounters (one combat, one exploration, one social, and the fourth could be anything). I'd GM the first one then another player would GM the second one, with my character subbing in for theirs for the second adventure. And so on and so on. Parameters I'm planning on:
Parameters I want input on:
My motivation: Thanks to the chronic shortage of good GMs (esp. for PBP), I've tried to get a rotating GM set up a couple of times and have run the first quest myself but haven't had any luck getting players to follow up and run a quest in return. So my latest scheme is to have a fairly continuous plotline and semicontinuous cast of characters in a rotating GM set-up. As usual, I'm willing to show my commitment by running the first quest. I'm looking for 3-5 other player-GMs who would be willing to run follow-up quests. The short and sweet nature will help prevent GM burnout and PBP's short attention spans.
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Your world tears itself apart as your sick neighbour bites a chunk out of her husband! You scramble to find somewhere safe to hide as screams and unnatural moaning fill the City at the Center of the World. Once hidden, you worry about your loved ones and wonder if you’ll be able to scavenge what you need. Maybe even build somewhere safe? Then something thumps against the door… This is a zombie survival game. The PCs will struggle to survive in an overrun Absalom. At first, you will be scrambling and hiding, trying not to die. If you are resourceful, you may be able to hold a fortified building and even take in some other survivors. If you are very resourceful, you may even be able to learn some things about what is going on and what you can do about it. The base-building part of the game will involve the downtime rules. I like giving the PCs choices/difficult decisions and the PCs will have to choose among investing their resources in equipping the leaders of the base (the party), improving the bases defenses (traps, walls, etc), and their base’s means of production (for future resources). I am taking applications to this game at least for the next three weeks as I am running two PBP games that are about to wrap up. I may allow recruitment to last a little longer. I will give at least one week’s notice when I finalize the date when recruitment will end. Then I will select the five applications that I think will best suit the game (note that I am advertising across a couple platforms, including Discord). I will be using a lightly modified version of the PF 1e rules (named Chainbreaker) based on a project myself and some others have been working on this year (and are still working on). There’s a community-based nomination and voting process on Discord and we’re working on hosting our rules on our wiki (this is a list of changes we’ve made). You obviously have to be ok with learning and using this ruleset. It would be a big plus if you are interested in giving feedback on the rules, proposing ideas, or even going so far as to help manage the wiki. Character creation:
20 pt buy 3rd level Standard WBL: 3,000 gp. Pre-crafting is ok but you can only pre-craft for other party members if you have a shared backstory. All Paizo-allowed classes and races (up to 20 RP) allowed. Only unchained versions of classes are allowed. Spheres of power and might allowed but not required. Emerging guns and know that I often feel that guns compromise the medieval fantasy feel. So, if your character uses guns, you’ll need to really feel like you fit into a medieval fantasy story in a well-grounded way. Two traits from this very limited list. Hero points will be in use except you do not gain them simply for existing/levelling. I will hand them out frequently for good RP, helping manage the loot list, keeping a PC chronicle/notes of what’s happened, helping edit the wiki that holds our rules, etc. Other details, such as EitR and how to calculate hp, can be found at our wiki.
Backstory:
Backstories should be about two paragraphs, minimum. I prefer backstories to be written in narrative format as it’s more fun to read and gives me a sense for how you write/RP. Here are some questions of which I should be able to answer most, if not all, about your character after reading their backstory. How did your character acquire their skills and values? What does your character think is important in life? What does your character look like? What are some of your characters quirks? Who does your character care about the most? (Hint: “no one” is usually a bad, Edgelordy answer to this question). What is your character’s biggest flaw? What about their biggest strength of character? What are some ways you see your character developing as they struggle to survive a zombie apocalypse and decide whom to trust?
Setting:
Absalom in the year 4722. I will draw heavily on what’s already published about this setting but won’t claim to be any sort of expert on ALL that’s been published. If you’re unsure whether or not a published part of the setting is part of my game, you can always ask. As you might expect, we will be spending a lot of time in Absalom. I will be using this map of the city for PCs to refer to and say “We explore F7” or whatever.
What I’m looking for in a submission:
I want earthy, grounded PCs who feel like a normal part of the setting. Normally, that would mean first level characters. But I know starting at first level gets old for players. So, your challenge is to make a third level character, who will necessarily be good at a smattering of things, but who also feels like an earthy, grounded part of the setting. I don’t think this means that your build has to be sub-optimal but there has to be some careful give and take between build and backstory so that your character doesn’t start out as a hero but can become one. Since the game is going to be somewhat deadly, you certainly want to have options for your character to learn to use the tools around them to help them and their comrades survive. Example: You could play an absent-minded but community-oriented apothecary (alchemist) who spends most of their days tinkering with herbs to make poultices and potions. Most of your formula book could be little utility spells and healing spells. Maybe your character has never made a bomb before but, when pressed, they could try to recall something they read in an odd book and concoct a makeshift incendiary. The party’s goals will involve trying to build a safe place or themselves and others to survive. Make sure your character is someone who is aligned with these goals. Evil alignments may possibly be allowed if they fit with these goals and will play well with others, e.g., a NE necromancer who believes in the circle of life and death and preserving the community by any means necessary, even if that involves employing the dead to protect against the dead. Such a character would need to deal with some serious stigma and suspicion from others but is an example of a concept that could be workable. A CN thief who just wants to steal from or sleep with everybody would not fit very well in this campaign. Further, I’m fine with powerful characters (who also have good flavor) but I prefer power to be team-friendly. Not everyone should be a support character but even a fighter can help protect others, e.g., with combat reflexes and reach. I will look a little more favorably on a hyper-optimized buffer, healer, etc., than on a hyper-optimized archer. Sensitive content parameters:
Sexual content: I’m not very interested in having this in my TTRPGs. If you want to have a romantic relationship with an NPC or another PC, that may be ok. But most physical affection besides a hug, peck on the cheek, whatever, can happen off-camera. As for sexual violence and sexual harassment, I’m not interested in having those in my game. Violence: Unsurprisingly, there will be a lot of violence and some graphic description, e.g., of what is done to or by a zombie. Further, harm will come to a wide spectrum of people, including children, and there will be some evil people. However, I won’t include any graphic descriptions of harm to children or graphic descriptions of torture. Frequently, things beyond these parameters will come up. I will try to communicate often and I hope the players will as well.
Game hosting details:
Battle maps will be hosted on roll20. City maps, etc, that PCs need to access frequently but won’t require fog of war and other dynamic tricks will be hosted on google slides so you can see them at any time. Lots of details like loot, XP, etc will be tracked on google sheets. PCs will need to share some of this work with me, e.g., marking your capital spent or gained and dividing up loot I drop in the found loot list. Gameplay and discussion will be hosted either on Paizo or Discord, depending on what party I put together. With your application, please state your platform preference from the following options:
In this play-by-post format, make a habit of post every day or almost every day. I will have to replace players whose engagement is too spotty for too long.
Deities:
The standard Golarion pantheon is in play. However, I don’t require clerics to worship one of those deities. If you want to worship a lesser-known deity that you’ve homebrewed or a concept, you can. This means you can combine alignment and domains/subdomains as you like. However, you won’t get to pick any weapon you want as your deity’s favored weapon and you won’t have a deific obedience option associated with your deity/concept except maybe something basic chosen by me. As questions make me realize further things I should include, I’ll put this information, an FAQ, and the most up-to-date list of application statuses in the Campaign Info tab here.
I've been planning a while to run a zombie survival game set in Absalom. If the PCs manage to find a safe place to hole up, such as a warehouse, etc, we'll also use the downtime rules a little bit as they choose between investing in their means of production, their built defenses, or their equipment. There's also a fair bit of investigating the mysterious origins of the plague and scavenging/exploring the dangerous city blocks around you. Social characters would not have as much fun as usual but still use from time to time in terms of convincing other survivors to cooperate, inspiring any survivors you take in to fight or work, infiltrating hostile groups of survivors, etc. The minor wrinkle: I want the PCs to start as ordinary people who have a trade or what not who are forced to scramble to survive, becoming more competent over time (think Carol from Walking Dead). So I don't want epic builds or backstories. However, I realize that starting at level 1 can be a boring grind and this game will be somewhat deadly so I'm thinking starting level 3. But ideally, backstories and builds will cleverly set up PCs who are really good at whatever ordinary life they lead and just happen to be able to turn their skills to good use for survival. The major wrinkle: I want to run this with some alternate rules. Along with some others, I've been working on a semi-democratic process to fix some aspects of PF 1e that we find problematic while leaving the game mostly the same. So I would want to use these rules. The ideal player would even provide input on these rulesets informally, through our nomination process, or by helping with the wiki, etc.
So who's interested? I'm especially curious to know how people feel about the major wrinkle. 
Far to the north in the Stormspear Hills, near the Crown of the World, the humble village of Hame has suffered strange attacks this winter. White creatures have walked right out of the snowstorms and slammed villagers to the ground, breaking their bones and chilling them with frostbite before the rallying villagers have been able to smash them into many shards. The desperate villagers send a rider begging for aid, spreading the news. A small group of experts answers the call, ready to investigate and put an end to the threat.
Far to the north in the Stormspear Hills, near the Crown of the World, the humble village of Hame has suffered strange attacks this winter. White creatures have walked right out of the snowstorms and slammed villagers to the ground, breaking their bones and chilling them with frostbite before the rallying villagers have been able to smash them into many shards. The desperate villagers send a rider begging for aid, spreading the news. A small group of experts answers the call, ready to investigate and put an end to the threat. This will be a homebrew oneshot. There will be some investigation and a moderate-length dungeon crawl taking place over the course of one adventuring day. Different degrees of success are possible ranging from TPK, partial success and retreat, to total success. Be ready for traps, stuck doors, wandering monsters, a time limit, puzzles, etc. Build rules:
5th level Any Paizo class. Spheres of Power and Might also allowed Any Paizo races <= 20 race points 25 pt buy 2 traits (campaign traits may be allowed upon request) Background skills are in effect Max HP at level 1 then average rounded up at each level thereafter. Animal companion etc., hp works as normal (average at each level, rounding down the total). 10,500 gp worth of equipment. Pre-crafting allowed but without any further wealth generation hacks (e.g., no blood money, no hedge magician, etc.). Pre-crafting for party members allowed if you have shared backstory. Backstory requirements:
Give me a sense of who your character is, why they have the skills represented by 5 adventuring levels, what their motivation is, and why they are in the Stormspear Hills. You might be a local or a traveler. Also, make it clear why you would answer a small village's call for help. Bonus points for shared backstory with one or more other applicants. Game format:
Everyone will be expected to post once per weekday and once per weekend. I will bot/skip PCs that don't act in a timely fashion since PBP momentum is monarch. Maps will be hosted on roll20. Mostly, they will be minimalistic maps but I might throw in one or two pretty ones.
Here's the non-traditional element: I have an itch to play with Spheres. So I am hoping to recruit a capable GM to play in my game and then run a similar, second oneshot for me and whomever else they wish to recruit after this. Spheres of Power and Might, regular posting, and some sort of visual battle map (roll20, google slides, whatever) are my requests. Anything else would be totally up to the second GM. If you are interested in this, let me know and tell me something about your GMing and what you would like to run. If I pick you to be my second GM, you would be guaranteed a party spot in this first game. Recruitment closes at 9 am EST on Saturday, May 14th.
I would love to play a short adventure in Spheres of Power and Might. I've played tristalt and gestalt in that system but maybe just some normal PF? 
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PF 1e: In Their Academy Days
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Complete aliases required for application:
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When I don't feel any need to collect more submissions, I'll give a 24 hr warning for anyone to get in a last second submission for consideration.
I like to run simple, PF 1e oneshots. There's a bit of RP as the characters meet, some social and exploration skill checks to briefly pursue the plot hook and put the party in a more favorable position, then a boss fight. It's great for making a fun character and getting to run them through their paces. At the same time, it doesn't require a long commitment, which is the bane of PBP. I have a lot of experience with PF 1e, PBP, and oneshots like this. The problem: I like to play in good games, not just GM them. There are way more players than there are good GMs. The simplest, non-traditional solution I have is to GM a oneshot like this for someone, plus other party members, with the request that they would run a oneshot for me in return. I am happy to GM first since "This whole operation was [my] idea." Further, I am happy to have my partner GM set some general parameters for what they would enjoy in their oneshot like level, gestalt/no, all bard party, difficulty level, spheres of power and might allowed, etc. Some preferences of mine that apply both as a player and as a GM:
I can be flexible on these as necessary. Let me know if you are interested in such an exchange! I'd be interested to hear a little bit about your GM style If you want, also let me know what you would hypothetically like when you play and I GM. If there is a surplus of interest, I will select a partner GM based on their experience and GM philosophy.
A lot of us want PF 1.5 so a few dozen collaborators and I are working on making a community-driven, homebrew ruleset that achieves something like that. We work on a discord to vote to pass rules and are developing the wiki that stores our consensus ruleset. We could use some more collaborators to vote, help refine rules ideas, help with the wiki grunt work, etc. If this interests you, drop your questions, notifications of interest, etc, here. 
The forces of Hell and the Abyss have discovered an exotic opportunity to seize control of the Material Plane. For the next two years, the planes are more closely aligned than normal. If either the Archdevils or Demon Lords can obtain enough control over the Material Plane, they can drag it into their realm to become a new layer of Hell or the Abyss. To gain said control, they must possess enough lodestones, magical points that massive swathes of the Material Plane are connected to. A few mortals have gotten swept up in an attempt to prevent the end of their world. Setting: Forgotten Realms. So far, the party spent time in and around Waterdeep, sailed to Chult, then sailed back up to the extreme north. Now they're in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. Game platform: Discord for gameplay and roll20 for maps. Expectations: A flavorful character with good backstory and good RP. You'll also need the mechanical prowess to keep up with gestalt's complexity for your build, what your teammates can do, and the correspondingly tricky challenges I throw at the party. Due to player attrition and other life reasons, play has slowed down some but the goal is for the game to proceed at the pace of 1 post/weekday and 1 post/weekend. Submission: The game will be played on Discord so I just want a text submission formatted reasonably (in terms of text in blocks or on lines) that contains a good backstory, description of the character, and statblock. We can then copy it into the discord channel that will store your sheet. A choice of photo would be nice too (doesn't have to be a Paizo-allowed photo). Mechanical suggestions:
The party has an artificer/rogue that shoots things with his guns, a wizard/fighter that focuses on his reach weapon and a little battlefield control spells, a paladin/warlock that smites things a lot and heals a little, and a rogue/bard that buffs, skills, spells, and heals a little. So don't overlap with one of those too much. Backstory suggestions: 1. Currently, the party is in a monastery occupied by monks who are mostly, aesthetically, vikings but very calm and disinclined toward violence. You could play a monk who has decided to journey with the party and help them in their bid to keep the material plane safe. 2. The monastery is located on a mountainside a little above a small, poor, rustic village. The villagers are mostly suspicious of the monks and the monastery, partially because the monastery only seems to be there sometimes and is gone at other times. The party will be conversing with these villagers soon. You could play a villager who, for one reason or another, has the skills, courage, and drive to join the party. 3. Not my favorite option but you could be some sort of adventurer who ends up with the party due to a magical mishap or other exotic adventure. Ask me if you want more information/ideas on any of these options.
What builds are truly formidable for clearing a dungeon? How can you function with a small party? Let's find out! I call for teams of two level 6 PCs to race against other teams to see who make it through dungeons the fastest. I will randomly generate a dungeon and pick a start point and end point within the dungeon. Then you will see how quickly you can make it through the dungeon, counting everything in terms of number of rounds, whether or not you are in combat. Then you will get a 24 hr rest/heal/shop/craft period that doesn't count against your time then run a second dungeon. Whichever team has the best time for getting one team member to the end of the second dungeon wins. I will be looking for at least two teams with three probably being my preferred number. Teams ready to go first will be given preference, as will people that I know are reliable play-by-posters or seem to have a good track record. You can make a team of two characters by yourself, both controlled by you, if you want but preference goes to teams of two players. After builds have been made, I will tell you the dungeon motif (Aberrant, Giant, Undead, Vermin, Desert, Underdark, Arcane, Fire, Cold, Abyssal, or Infernal) after which you will have 24 hrs IC and OOC to make final preparations of crafting, shopping, prepping spells, or casting buffs of duration 1 hr or more. Character creation rules:
20 pt buy Paizo races of 20 RP or less Two traits, one of which may be a campaign trait One bonus teamwork feat Pre-crafting is allowed if one member of your party is able to perform the crafting Blood money is banned Each PC may bring one pet/minion/undead, etc into the maze and then summon more thereafter if you like Play details:
Each team will play with me on its own Discord server. Maps will be on google slides. Each team has 24 hrs real time from whenever I update to take their next set of actions. Whatever actions (e.g. standard, move, etc) are remaining after the 24 hr mark are lost when I next update the round. One player may control both PCs in their team, if they like, but preference will be given to teams of two characters and two players. Dungeon settings: Unless otherwise stated, ceilings are 30 ft high. Dungeon level 4. Dungeon Motif will be set by rolling 1d11 to choose from Aberrant, Giant, Undead, Vermin, Desert, Underdark, Arcane, Fire, Cold, Abyssal, and Infernal. Map Style: Standard Grid: Square Dungeon layout: Rectangle Dungeon size: Small Peripheral egress: No Stairs: No Room layout: Scattered Room size: Medium Doors: Standard Corridors: Errant Remove deadends?: Some I recommend generating a couple of dungeons before hand to get a feel for what the site will throw at you.
Background skills are amazing and help flesh out characters. But there are far more underused feats than skills. Hence I've seen several people discussing the idea of background feats and PF 2e essentially has that built in. So I present my codified system of background feats. Feel free to comment here or in the google doc with a list of feats you think should be added to the examples! Questions or suggestions are also welcome. 
Discuss! One thing you can discuss is if anyone wants to re-spec slightly seeing the party composition. Talk more about your party roles but also what interactions you may have already had with the other party members here in the dungeon.
You like your job well enough. The pay is small and sporadic. A silver piece here. A well-chewed shoe there. The work isn't hard and food and lodging are included. Sure the hours are long. The boss doesn't even know your name. Yeah you don't see the sun very often. The lodging might be a dank cave. And the food often comes in sharp metal packaging that can make it hurt to chew on. But all in all, being a monster guarding an evil wizard's lair is a pretty good gig! It sure beats being a lone monster that adventurers just stumble onto and gang up on in the woods… Game description:
Character creation mechanics:
For the most part, your stats will be the same as those of the monsters you chose from the bestiary (HP and background skills being the main differences as explained below). Whatever skill ranks, racial bonuses, feats, etc that monster has it what you have. Those stats can then be modified as you take templates, class levels, or grow into a more powerful but very similar monster (e.g. a ghoul becoming a draugr) such that you still have continuity of the same character. You will start off as CR 2 monsters. You may apply non-mythic templates as long as you keep a net CR of no more than 2 and as long as you have no more than a total of three zero or negative CR templates. No humanoid (or monstrous humanoid) creature types! You may play any non-humanoid monster that could reasonably work for an evil wizard in her lair in the woods and then go adventuring. So poltergeist is out, for example, because it is bound to a specific site. But whatever you play must be capable of communicating with the other party members. So you have to be capable of speaking some language or telepathy. And the party will need to have some language in common. To help with that, you get two background skills ranks for every CR you have. Max ranks in a skill will be based on your CR or HD, whichever is higher. You will want to consider level-up possibilities when you choose your monster. Monsters may take class levels (with each level counting as one CR) but class levels may never be more than half your CR. You might want to play a monster that has a power progression already, such as most elementals, dragons, etc. You can take and re-spec as we level to make things work out. For example, your young blue dragon monk 2 (CR 11) can become a young (-1) adult blue dragon (CR 12). There will be a lot of options for how to do your progression. But your character shouldn't change so much as to disrupt the concept. E.g. your advanced dryad warpriest 4 shouldn't become a vampire. In addition, there should be a match between what your monster is RPing, learning, practicing, how its changing, etc that matches the mechanical change upon leveling up to a higher CR. Players should be ready for the mechanical work of building and playing a monster. It will be significantly different than our classic PCs and will require some level of attention to detail. Players who aren’t ready to keep track of their monsters’ abilities won’t be well-suited for this game. Players who like mechanical challenges and building well will do well. A certain amount of power gaming will be fine as long as the RP does not suffer for it. Occasionally, an overpowered combo or element may arise which I will ban as necessary, e.g. the blood money spell is banned. When this comes up, I will just discuss it with the player(s) involved and we will find a solution that is as satisfactory as possible. Banned templates: Class templates (e.g. wizard creature), mythic templates, anything that comes up as game-breaking
No starting equipment except for what the bestiary says you would have. When you take your first class level, you may take traits. The first hit die that you gain you get full hp. After that, you get the avg rounded up (d8->5, d10-> 6, etc) at each hit die. Monsters don't get favored class bonuses.
Party roles:
Some party roles will be a lot easier to fill than others as monsters. Here are some important roles to think about how your party will fill them. Face (very important and very difficult, would probably require disguise or some sort of polymorph effect)
If everyone is a tank, striker, or scout, things will be very difficult indeed. If yours is the only submission capable of disguising yourself as a human and asking about the legend of the purple sorcerer in town, your chances of being selected go up. That said, if four other people have selected party faces, maybe you should fill another role.
Setting:
The entire game will take place in a homebrew setting of large river valley about 100 miles across and 150 miles long surrounded by mountains. The terrains here are mountains, plains, forest, swamp, underground, underwater, and urban. There are a number of small farming villages, a few larger towns, and two large cities. The cities tend to have more law and order but there is very little presence of a single legal authority over the entire region, so it's a little like the Wild West in that sense. The standard Golarion pantheon will be in play but you are welcome to develop a homebrew deity as long as you run things by me first.
Character description/backstory:
This game will have very weird PCs, both mechanically and descriptively. There will be many weird, odd, cool, and funny moments. But like any game, it will need interesting characters who are motivated both in and out of character. So your backstory should explain 1. how you came to be in the employ of an evil wizard guarding her lair, 2. what your motivations are, 3. what the personality, quirks, habits, etc of your character are, 4. what your character looks like, and 5. a way that you could see your character developing over the course of the game. Hint: Eating everything, acquiring power, and murder are all pretty uninteresting motivations to this GM. Having those are fine but there should be other, more interesting elements as well.. Second hint: Becoming more powerful is not interesting as a potential character development arc. A few examples of potentially interesting motivations:
A few examples of character developments:
Alignment:
All alignments allowed. That said, good alignments will have some trouble fitting in with monsters that might eat a significant portion of the creatures they encounter. On the flip side, being excessively evil will also be a problem. Just like any game, party conflict has to be kept tightly under control. Any action antagonistic toward another player needs to be run by me via PM first. You want to steal their sandwich? I'll probably ok it, depending on the situation, since that could be fun for everyone. You want to steal and sell their most important possession? No way. Additionally, the game would get old very fast if you alienated every creature you came across. Loot alone would be a big problem. Places that are easy enough for you to raid probably don't have much to loot but places with great loot will probably kill you if you try to raid them. And the game just won't work if you can't have alliances/conversations/business transactions/friendships with some npcs, including humanoids. Your alignment doesn't necessarily have to match what is listed for you in the bestiary but you would have to have a good backstory to explain and make up for the fact that your young lantern archon is CE. Evilish acts that aren’t going too far: Animating dead, casting evil descriptor spells, killing an objectionable individual who is causing problems for you, killing something in a fair fight and eating it, etc. Evil acts that are going too far: Any sexual violence (not in my game, maybe someone else’s), violence toward humanoid children, completely senseless murder of intelligent, non-threatening creatures. Good alignment constraints that would be going too far: Objecting to ever fighting anything, objecting to ever eating a foe that was already dead, objecting anyone in the party ever lying, stealing, or sneaking.
Game expectations:
I will post at least once a weekday and occasionally on the weekends unless something comes up that prevents it, in which case I will communicate that, almost always ahead of time. If you look at my track record on the boards, I’m pretty committed to keeping games moving forward. I expect the same from my players. I'm a fairly relaxed GM who mostly plays things by the rulebook but doesn't mind some rule of cool here and there. When I mess up, I'm happy to have it pointed out to me and I'll do my best to fix it. Posts should be descriptive, respond to what other players do, and push the action forward. Players will manage their own loot. As GM, I will provide a spreadsheet in which you can do this and occasional reminders but that is all. Players will get to deck out the dungeon they live in and use it as a permanent base, inviting other monsters to come live there, placing traps, etc. I will not introduce Yet Another Subsystem(TM) but instead will allow players to buy traps, materials to build traps, beds, etc for gp. Where I’m already aware of prices for something, I will use that. Where I’m not, players can either let me know where to find the price or I will rule something I deem reasonable. There may occasionally be challenges such as “there’s not enough food for this many monsters living together” but we’ll solve such problems with RP decisions, skills, etc, not a subsytem for managing kingdom resources. I’ve gone that route (e.g. in Kingmaker) and it can be fun but it’s not what I’m looking for in a monsters game. Leveling will be done according to XP earned and as if the party were equivalent to the same level PCs. This means leveling up will be fairly frequent since the party will probably be more powerful than PCs of level = CR. Maps will be on google slides.
How to make a complete submission:
Create an alias. Provide a detailed statblock in the same style as the bestiary. If I can’t undestand why your stats are the way they are, then we’ll have to fix that. Put a tagline into alias that includes AC T FF, HP, Saves, Init, Senses, Limited Use Abilities, and Botted Attack. Include an interesting background as discussed in the background portion.
Statblock format, copy paste:
Dagon (Demon Prince of the Sea) CR 27 CE Large outsider (aquatic, chaotic, demon, evil, extraplanar)
DEFENSE
OFFENSE
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 27th)
Spells Prepared (CL 20th)
STATISTICS
SPECIAL ABILITIES Water Mastery (Ex)
GEAR
I'll edit the profile of this GM alias to reflect clarifications arising from player's questions/comments. Recruitment will be open until at least July 2nd at 5:00 pm EDT. I may or may not choose to extend it depending on circumstances. When recruitment closes, the campaign will begin immediately.
Interesting idea about fighting Calardan, rorek. I could be down for that. I think it would be kind of fun, though a huge advantage, to build for fighting a specific, known boss.
Hey all! Sometimes you have a mechanical character concept as a player or battle concept as a GM you just want to take out for a spin. In the past, I've run a couple quick battles like this one that became two or this one that we ran twice because of TPKs. Those have been fun for me to try out various things on the GM screen side of things. I enjoy those and could do another one or two but would also like to experiment some on the player side. So who would be interested in taking turns playing/gming something like this? All details are up in the air regarding build rules, level, and PF 1e or 5e. Most of those would simply be decided by the GM of the current one-shot but we should probably have a consensus regarding game system (PF would be my vote). Lmk if you're interested, what system you'd like to play, and any other thoughts. ~caster
Our party lost two players over the holidays and could use some more! Current party is barbarian/fighter and barbarian/wizard. Since we are at level 3, applicants an start with 200 gp and 1 uncommon item of their choice. 
Welcome welcome.
The band of adventurers traveled merrily to their next destination, spending the night in the Blue Ogre inn. It was a quaint, typical sort of place with good drinks and warm food. There, they heard rumors of the Elemental Forge hidden in a cavern nearby. The locals said this artifact could bind the elements together to create powerful magics but no one who entered the cavern had ever come back. Occasionally, bizzarre earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, and forest fires plagued the area. But the locals put up with it, assuming that was simply their lot in life. But one old man in the corner shook his head. "No siree. It's gettin' worse. Somethin's happenin' with the Forge, I tell ya!" Hey all,
Setting:
Character creation rules:
Since this is just a short fun dungeon crawl, I’m looking for a specific mix of classes/party roles: Arcane caster: Played by an arcanist.
These are the roles to be filled by applicants. Recruitment will be closed on November 29th, 5 pm EST unless revision of that date is required. Dungeon crawl format:
Expectations:
Terrible example:
Good example: Wizarding Tom reaches quickly for a pouch at his belt and pulls out a small black shaving. This had better help or we're done for... That minotaur looks angry! C'mon now... focus... focus... The root glows brightly as power surges into Tom and his allies. Invigorated, he calls out to Barbarian Bog "Tear him a new one, Bob!"
Because of an error with Paizo's site, I can't currently edit campaign info to list maps, etc. So this alias will have links to those things. Added to campaign info: Text of advertisement: HELP WANTED: Sackbury Mining Corporation
Note that Pentrefan is about fifty miles from Dinas Diwydiant along a somewhat arduous but commonly-used mountain road. Some coaches travel between the two cities (5 gp for a one-way ticket). Supply wagons travel more commonly along the route and would take a passenger for 1 gp. A brenin is the name of the platinum coin inscribed with the image of King Aeron, the last king of Haernwlad. During his reign, he transitioned the nation peacefully into a republic where land-holders elect the ruling body. Edit: King's name changed to Aeron.
Hey Tinalles and Mustache, Let's figure out a couple things regarding what type of game we'd like to play. I'm thinking we should discuss preferred length, posting rate, story elements, pillar elements, and potential rule variants. Length: I'd prefer something a bit on the longer side. All three of us post frequently and consistently so I think we could cover a lot of ground. Rate: I'd like to have us post every weekday and once on the weekend was a minimum. I'll usually post every day and multiple times on weekdays but I can't commit to always doing that. Story elements: I'm interested to hear from you guys first on this. Then I'll craft something around it if we do homebrew or suggest something published if we go that route. Pillar elements: I like to keep all three pillars involved. Both of you have seen some of my weird exploration puzzles I like to invent so let me know now if you like or dislike them! I'm still tuning exactly how much info to provide on those so I usually provide too little then fill in the gaps as I notice them. Rules: I like 20 pt buy and backround skills. I'm open to other options like combat stamina, feat taxes, etc. If we ran an AP, I'd probably have you guys do 25 pt buy. Thoughts?
I like to use the discussion thread actively. Let us know you're here and paying attention. Post in the gameplay thread as soon as you're ready.
You wake in the city of Waterdeep, a cold sweat on your forehead. Whatever business you had planned today is wiped from your mind by last night’s dream. Visions of blood, a heinous sacrifice, and a maw full of crooked fangs. Then the glowing white face of a terrifyingly beautiful woman floats into view. She speaks softly ”You can end this. Find the lowest point in the city. My blessing will be with you. And I will send others to join you. They'll meet you at the sewer grate behind the Laughing Giant.” Then you woke, feeling more capable than you ever have before, ready to head to the general store mentioned by the Lady.
You wake in the city of Waterdeep, a cold sweat on your forehead. Whatever business you had planned today is wiped from your mind by last night’s dream. Visions of blood, a heinous sacrifice, and a maw full of crooked fangs. Then the glowing white face of a terrifyingly beautiful woman floats into view. She speaks softly ”You can end this. Find the lowest point in the city. My blessing will be with you.” Then you woke, feeling more capable than you ever have before. Hey all! Who’s up for some 5e fun? I’m looking to run a 5e homebrew gestalt game with a party of 4-5 players. Part 1 will run from level 1 to level 5, guaranteed. After that, I'm going to reassess whether or not we have the interest/momentum to tackle part 2 from levels 6 to 10. There was an interest check thread about this earlier as well as some playtest combat. Gestalt rules in 5e:
My adaptation of gestalt rules for 5e: 1. Take two classes at every level. When two classes grant the same type of benefit, take whichever one is better. 2. No multiclassinig. You pick two classes and you stick with them. This is mostly to save headache for my first time trying to adapt gestalt for 5e. 3. You only get extra attack when a class grants it (e.g. 5 levels of paladin). You only get additional extra attacks if you have the fighter levels that grant it. 4. Unlike normal 5e multiclass spellcasting, you gain spell slots independently from each class. So a bard 2/sorcerer 2 has 3+3 first level spell slots instead of 4 first level and 3 2nd level. This will provide caster/caster builds with lots of splots but won't allow them to get higher level splots at lower levels than normal. 5. Again, gestalt counts differently from multiclassing so you don't have to meet the ability score prerequisites of your classes since you are not multiclassed. A. HP: A wizard 4/barbarian 4 with +3 con would have 4d12 hit dice and 12+7+7+7+4*3=45 hp
Character creation:
Point buy. Max hp at level 1. Avg rounded up at subsequent levels. Starting equipment of both classes. All official 5e sources allowed. UA potentially allowed upon a case-by-case basis. Background and character description:
Background: Obviously, fill out the standard 5e background elements including your bond, flaw, etc (which can be customized). Why are you in Waterdeep? What are you doing here? How did you respond to the angelic vision? Why would you agree to help defeat a demonic cult? Character description: Describe your character's appearance and mannerisms. What does your character like? What does he/she dislike? What kinds of people/behaviors are he/she more or less likely to get along with? Example post: Give me an example post of your character interacting with an NPC in Waterdeep. None of the above needs to be lengthy. Just show me the key information. Posting Expectations:
Players are expected to post 1/day on weekdays and once over the weekend. If there's nothing for you to react to, post your current thoughts in the discussion, some internal dialogue of your character, something. As GM, I'll hold to this standard as a bare minimum. If you're going to be away for a little bit, let me know in advance and it'll be fine. Uncommunicated absences will cause significant problems. If this becomes a pattern for you, I'll PM you once about this then ask you to leave the game and get a replacement character if I have to. Be a good team player both mechanically and in storytelling. React to the posts of others. Push the action forward. Act in the best interests of the team.
Logistics:
Use this character template for your submission. Maps will use google slides. Group inventory and XP tracking will use google sheets. How to get accepted:
Come up with an interesting character concept that makes sense as to why you have the two classes that you have and seems like it would be fun and/or cool to see interacting and working with other party members. Make a cool build that will solidly contribute to helping your team achieve its goals. I'd love to see your two classes synergize really well to fulfill a party role. Tell me a bit about yourself. How long have you been on the boards? How often do you tend to check your campaigns and post? Do you have a favorite campaign or moment from a campaign I could check out to get a feel for your style? How do you like to play? Submit multiple characters if you want to. It certainly won't hurt your chances of getting one of them accepted. Recruitment will close at 5 pm EST on August 20th, 2018. Gameplay will start immediately after I make my selections.
Let me know here if/when you're ready to try again at this fight.
You enter the town at dusk. Things are all too quiet here. That's why you were sent here in the first place. The authorities found losing communication with an entire town quite... troubling... The vibrant colors of the flowers lining the streets testify to the recent tender loving care of the town's absent residents... The lonely wind whistles through the trees and buildings unaccompanied by the typical sounds...
I've got some long-running reactions I'm working on this week and would love to run another quick boss fight in 5e but with gestalt rules! Level 3 characters. Anyone up for this? I'm going to just throw you into the fight and I expect I'll post three or four times a day until the fight is over. By gestalt rules, I mean the rules I've been working on in this interest thread for a campaign. Right now, I just have a little time for a single fight. Take the starting equipment from both classes. Point buy. ALL UA allowed. If something's broken, I'm not going to worry about it for just one fight. Bring on the cheese, if that's what you want! I will start this as soon as I have a party. Just looking to mess around and have some fun. I don't know exactly how to challenge a party of 5e gestalters so I'm making the fight pretty stiff. We'll see how it works out.
I love playing around with rules to try out new builds and abilities so I think it would be fun to run a 5e adventure using gestalt rules. I know that 5e is intentionally mean to be stream-lined and have less room for min-maxing but I, as I said, I enjoy monkeying around with things to see what happens. My adaptation of gestalt rules for 5e:
Would start at level 1/1. Miscellaneous examples/rules:
1. HP: A wizard 4/barbarian 4 with +3 con would have 4d12 hit dice and 12+7+7+7+4*3=45 hp 2. You could choose class skill proficiencies from the lists available to both classes but you could only choose as many class skill proficiencies as the number granted by the class that grants the most. A wizard 1/sorcerer 1 gets 2 skill proficiencies from its class. A wizard 1/rogue 1 gets 4 skill proficiencies from its class. 3. Weapons and armor proficiencies: Pretty obvious here. You have any proficiency listed under either class. 4. Saving throws: You get the saving throw proficiencies of both classes! So a bard 1/wizard 1 is proficient in dex, int, wis, and cha saves. 5. Fighting styles: You get one from each class but you can't benefit from picking the same one twice, e.g. fighter 2/paladin 2 picks defense and defense. He gets a total of +1 ac. 6. ASIs: You get ASIs from each class at specific levels. If both classes grant an ASI at a level, you only get one ASI from that level. So a wizard 20/bard 20 only has 5 ASIs but a rogue 20/fighter 20 has 8 ASIs. 7. Equipment: You get the starting equipment of both classes. I won't be ready to run this for at least a month or two when some of my current games finish up but I figured I'd float the idea and see if people would be interested and discuss ideas for how to fine-tune these rules. My (fairly safe) guess is that the class that gets used in the most builds is fighter. 
Settlements and trading posts near the barbaric lands have seen unusual numbers of attacks by orcs and other raiders. Many unprepared villages have suffered immense casualties. Behind the attacks, a cold, calculating plan draws every day people into a game they never agreed to play. After a desperate defense of their home, a plucky group of villagers tracked the messages coordinating a pair of orc attacks back to a hideout full of illusions. After finally fighting their way past the lies, they captured an agent of the Elven council. Instead of killing him to avenge their fallen, they dragged their captive to the authorities to get answers. Hey all! I recently ran a one-shot in which a group of villagers defended their town against an orc warband, only to find it was all part of something much bigger. Some of the characters retired (for in-character and IRL reasons) while two players and I decided to build a campaign off of this. The players seek to do something about the grander scheme they have stumbled upon. We currently have a shaman and a skills-focused archer. We could use some additional muscle or arcane power packaged in characters who never expected to play the hero. Here is the link to the existing gameplay thread. Build Details:
Level 6 Races: Human, Dwarf, Halfling, Gillman, Ratfolk, Elf, Orc, Half-orc, Half-elf Classes: Any paizo including unchained (optional). 20 point buy 2 traits or 3 and one drawback 2000 gp starting gold. The characters are currently well behind WBL due to their origins as villagers but that is not a long-term arrangement. There will be plenty of loot. Background Details:
Characters should either be from the Bishopric of Helm (see Setting Details) or have some other emotional attachment to the Bishopric. Provide some explanation as to how an everyday person, such as yourself, has developed the powers of a 6th level character. Also explain how your character got wrapped up in the Elves’ plot. Perhaps you were one of the guards that is escorting the party and the captured elf. Perhaps you're a villager who's home was also attacked and you came to the capital looking for answers or help. Setting Details:
This is a homebrew setting. The Golarion pantheon is in use but homebrew religions are also welcome. The Kingdom of Iustia is composed largely of humans and a few other races. It shares an uneasy peace with the other great power on the continent, the United Elven Lands, which is ruled by a council of elders. The Bishopric of Helm is a small, semi-sovereign state that emerged as a diplomatic solution to a dispute between the two great powers. The Bishopric borders the untamed barbaric lands of orcs, goblins, and other “uncivilized” races. Expectations:
Frequency: Post once per weekday and once per weekend. Communicate if an exception is upcoming. Style: Be descriptive. Acknowledge and react to elements from other characters’ posts, and push the action forward. Communication: Let me know when I mess something up or if you have an idea about how to improve the game. PM me “Pawns can be promoted” so I know you read all of this and care to play. I will add a campaign journal to my tagline when I finish getting it together. This will have a world map and some other details for those who are interested. Recruitment will be open until July 10th, 5:00 EST.
Here's the discussion thread! Mira has craft wondrous item so you can assume that you got all your wondrous items at half price. Just list what you want so she can make sure she could hit the required spellcraft check taking 10. Gameplay will be up very soon.
"Darkstone." the old crone cackled. "No one has been there since my granny was a child. And fer good reason. But if ye make it back alive with the Crucible, I'll make it worth yer while. And ye can rest assured that if ye root out the evil there, the land will thank ye fer it too." Your skin crawls as the hideous old lady explains why her messengers brought you to her thatched hut in the woods. You doubt her ability to pay you until she makes platinum coins dance before your eyes. Her narrow old frame is racked with laughter at the look of surprise and excitement on your face. "Tut tut, dearies, Not 'til ye bring me the Crucible." Hey all! I find myself wanting to run something fun of relatively short length. What could be more fun than a classic-style, one-shot dungeon crawl played by gestalt rules? Build details:
Level: 4 Stats: 25 point buy Classes: Any Paizo (maybe 3rd party upon request) Races: Any non-flying Paizo of 20 RP or lower (maybe 3rd party upon request) Traits: 2 Drawbacks: Sure but it won't get you an extra trait Wealth: Standard (6000 gp) Pre-crafting: Encouraged. You may also pre-craft for party members. You must be able to succeed on the craft check by taking 10. Character backgrounds:
A short and simple background will suffice for a one-shot. I just want a basic, brief description of who your character is, why they would go on this adventure, what kind of things they like, and what kind of things they don't like. The most important thing is that your character is someone that you, the other players, and myself can come to understand, know, and appreciate over the brief course of a one-shot. Given that this is a one-shot, I highly encourage the selected players to adlib their shared background.
I would like players to be able to post once per day on weekdays and once over the weekend. Extra is gravy. I will post at least that often and probably more. Recruitment open until 6/18 5:00 pm EST.
Let's use the discussion thread actively.
Dare to descend into the Underdark! Discover the fascinating and horrific secrets of that hidden land and the plots twisting within it. I'm going to run the published 5e adventure Out of the Abyss. Submit level one characters with point buy. More details in campaign info about posting expectations and what I want to see in submissions. I will update campaign info as good questions on here make me realize things I should clarify.
Hey All, I love 5e and GM or play a lot of homebrew adventures for it. I have played LMoP and am playing CoS (no spoilers!) but I'd like to try out running a game from an adventure. I haven't decided which adventure to buy so I'm looking for interest. Disclaimer: This is not a democratic process but I do want input. Currently, I'm thinking Out of the Abyss would be awesome but I've also heard great things about Storm King's Thunder. Lay it on me. What do you recommend/want to play?
You've wandered through this cursed temple with little resistance along the way. Just snakes. Lots and lots of snakes. You've dispatched them easily enough but their writhing, desperate to bite you, is unnerving. You find yourself in a hallway outside some jade stone doors. Suddenly, you hear a noise behind you. The stone ceiling of the hallway behind you is crashing down, the sections furthest from you falling first. What do you do?
Some guidelines for game pacing: 1. Once two players agree on a course of action in gameplay, I will assume the party takes that course of action. 2. Please post consistently once per weekday and once over the weekend, with a few, occasional exceptions. Even if it seems like there is nothing for you to do (e.g. not your turn in combat) there is something you can post. Post your character's reaction to another's actions, comment on a recent event in the discussion, etc. Do something to keep yourself and everyone else engaged. In addition, ensure your posts have a hook or push for other players or myself to keep the action moving forward. A. Example post with no push "John finishes off the last ogre with a mighty blow to the abdomen." B. Example post with a push: "John finishes off the last ogre with a mighty blow to the abdomen. With blood still dripping from his face, he turns to his comrades. Let's search their corpses and get out of here." 3. Related to both 1 and 2, use the discussion thread a lot. Feel free to plan ahead so that gameplay flows smoothly, e.g. "My character doesn't know X yet but once he does he will want to do Y. 4. FYI, I update mostly around 10 am EST and 7 pm EST on weekdays and at some point during Saturday and Sunday.
These smugglers are more capable than most. They've successfully resisted and escaped arrest by conventional police on multiple occasions. Now the Shadows are sending you to end the problem. Intel says the leader of the smugglers is a wily fellow with magical power. How will you take this ring of criminals down? You make your way to Lopul, a modest city on the famed Silken Way. As you enter the city, your nostrils fill with the scent of cook smoke and camels, a welcome change of pace after traveling through the desert. The small brick huts and tents clustered around the Pool of Sihbon are occasionally interrupt by larger buildings: the storehouses of merchants, the grand tents of chieftains, the tower of the mages guild, and dominating all, the palace of the Sheik. Modest compared to those you've seen in larger cities, the palace manages to impress as the grandest building in Lopul. Your can't keep your gaze from straying to the warehouse on the northern edge of town. Your dossier indicates this as the location of the smugglers. As the red sun sets over the desert, many travelers search for lodging while some set out, braving the darkness of night to escape the heat of the day.
Some guidelines for game pacing: 1. Once two players agree on a course of action in gameplay, I will assume the party takes that course of action. 2. Please post consistently once per weekday and once over the weekend, with a few, occasional exceptions. Even if it seems like there is nothing for you to do (e.g. not your turn in combat) there is something you can post. Post your character's reaction to another's actions, comment on a recent event in the discussion, etc. Do something to keep yourself and everyone else engaged. In addition, ensure your posts have a hook or push for other players or myself to keep the action moving forward. A. Example post with no pushL "John finishes off the last ogre with a mighty blow to the abdomen." B. Example post with a push: "John finishes off the last ogre with a mighty blow to the abdomen. With blood still dripping from his face, he turns to his comrades. Let's search their corpses and get out of here." 3. Related to both 1 and 2, use the discussion thread a lot. Feel free to plan ahead so that gameplay flows smoothly, e.g. "My character doesn't know X yet but once he does he will want to do Y. 4. FYI, I update mostly around 10 am EST and 7 pm EST on weekdays and at some point during Saturday and Sunday. |