I know a post a day is usually pretty standard fare but for this, especially because of how combat heavy the game can get and how long exploring can become otherwise I'd really like to see more along the lines of 2-3+ posts a day.

I leave background up to my players to determine what they want to do with it. But it is a good portion of how I weigh characters for selection.

Characters will begin the game at 1st level but with standard WBL for a 2nd level character.

Hp will be max at 1st level, half max +1 there after.

The game will be 20 pb.

All core races allowed, the rest on a case by case basis.

All Paizo classes may be used, third party classes on a case by case basis.

The basis of the game is a burial site for followers of Aroden (potentially a minor Empyreal Lord, subject to change) has fallen to corruption and the players are to root out and defeat this evil.

Because the world of The Slumbering Tsar and The Tomb of Abysthor doesn't match up entirely with Golarion, some thing just might not fit.

I plan for the majority of the game to take place inside Taldor. But will be lifting the city from inside The Tomb of Abysthor pretty much verbatim, I'm not particularly well versed in the geography of Golarion to find a close enough match.

So a city by the name of Bard's Gate exists in Taldor, which is where the beginning of this story will be taking place.

I ask for a bit of leeway when I have to force something to make sense in the context of Pathfinder.

Being as the game will be primarily a series of dungeon crawls I'm hoping that the players will be able to find a way to create moments or find opportunities for them to role play and develop their characters.

Feel free to include hooks for your characters in your back story, as I like the opportunity to be able to utilize things of that nature.

In essence, though I realize that the game will be largely based around exploration and dungeon delving, I do want to carry on a story as well.

It is for that reason as well that I ask for submissions to be made by players with a solid system mastery.

Some deaths are unavoidable, but while the chosen campaign is certainly more deadly than normal, I do want to try to avoid the game becoming a revolving door of cast members.

I'm not asking for hyper optimized character or the like, but that you understand your characters abilities and limitations. I often like to retool or even replace encounters and have had players not use abilities that could have reduced the difficulty of an encounter only for them to forget / not even know about it and thus make the fight much harder than it should be.

There are some inherent problems with games that can potentially chew up players.

Among them is the acquisition of dead players loot being absorbed by still living players while the now dead players character needs some semblance of gear themselves.

This can create a sort of cycle where in you find yourself with 7th level characters with 10 or 11th level loot.

For this reason, the wealth on dead players will not be able to be utilized by the party. Either their corpses claimed by the variance sinister forces at work, they were respectfully buried as opposed to being callously plundered by their friends, their wealth went to pay for local farmer's health insurance, etc.

In some cases where a player had a particularly desirable item to another player I may allow them to have it at the cost of accruing a personal loot debt to be repaid.