Since so many intended-to-be-long campaigns die off on these forums I thought it would be neat to get a pool of people together to play single-encounter set-piece adventures that we can actually finish. I figure characters start at level one and gain one level for each encounter they complete, because everyone likes leveling up, but permanent character death is a possibility with a few bad rolls so it would likely stay relatively low level.
What do I mean by "set-piece adventure"? Something like "we have to kill this one spider monster that is at the center of it's own web" or "we have to protect this person from vampires until sunrise", a single elaborate encounter probably centered around an interesting fight.
I'd GM this if people would play, I could start a list, but it would be even cooler if some other people wanted to also GM using the same pool of characters so more people could play (namely me).
How does that sound to people? I'm explicitly not recruiting right now, just soliciting interest. I'll start a new thread when and if I decide to actually set up a game of this. Right now I'm just gauging interest.
I'd be interested in playing. I'm always coming up with character concepts, and this sounds like a great way to try them out. :-) If this picks up some steam, and people get a few encounters/levels under their belts, I'd be willing to do a bit of GMing once I get a feel for everyone's preferred style.
I'd be down with this idea. I do enjoy a short encounter with more complexity to it. It's quick and makes the world itself feel more alive when you take a single patch of it, mess around with it and it remains persistent.
Also, this sounds like PFS concentrate, which I like the idea of.
this would be a good way to playtest these rules, http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2r26e?Dreamscarred-Press-Introduces-Akashic-Mys teries. I could be up for some gming although not all the time...
I am interested. Its a good idea. I am a long time DM, but still new to the pbp. I think I can come up with a few encounters.
Yeah, it reminds me a lot of PFS-lite, too. It would be cool if we established a way to "bank" levels for use with other characters. For example, I have a crazy Wizard/Ninja multiclass that would be a blast to play, but he doesn't really get going until Level 3.
Very interested.
Sounds great!
cool idea, might be a fun way to use characters that never got play due to pbp campaigns dying off.
I'd play this kind of thing for sure!
Okay, wow, way more people interested than I expected. That's good though.
I've got an idea for an encounter already so let's try this out. Click the link to the left for the recruitment thread.
Great idea, it'd give people a low stress way to practice pbp gming. Got my full support
Sign me up too. There are some character builds I wanted to do but how they would work with other characters in a party is a different thing altogether.
I expect that the them would also mix up different encounter styles so being prepared for it all would be a challenge. :)