Please post your character sheets here. Once all of them are posted, we will get the in-character thread and this show on the road.

I picked up Nights Black Agents a couple of months ago, and given that my face to face group has pretty much self destructed due to personal drama, I decided, after having been run through a brief scenario by @Piratecat , to attempt to run a campaign via play by post.

In case you are wondering, here is the box quote for Nights Black Agents:

If you are asking yourself, "Am I signing up for James Bond vs Dracula", you would be right.

From a different thread, there are some people who have already reserved spots:

@Piratecat
@Walking Dad
@Committed Hero
@Hypersmurf

I also had interest from @Kaodi and @tunafish in the thread. They will get right of first refusal for the two spots that are left.

Characters
On the Nights Black Agents page over at Pelgrane Press, there is a set of pre-generated PCs. We will be using those with one important caveat. The stats will be kept the same, however, I would like people to feel free to re-skin the details, backstory, etc should they desire. However, the current crop of PCs have integrated backstories...

Posting rate
I will endeavor to post at least once a day, and will try to go faster if you guys manage it. Weekends, OTOH, are pretty busy and computer time is limited most of the time, especially with the summer coming up.

Game thread
The game thread will be up in a couple of days. Watch this thread for links.

Dice
When @Morrus gets the dice roller up, we will use it. Until then, you can either use something like Invisible Castle or your own dice and report the results, whichever you prefer.

Since I absolutely love Pathfinder yet do not have the time to start yet another tabletop campaign, I will make the attempt here.

I myself have some experience running PbP games, mostly over at Atomicthinktank where I run several M&M games.

What will this game be about?
Orcs. Undead. Traps. Orcs. Dark and forgotten gods. Zon-Kuthon. Orcs. Bloody Bones. And a bunch of other things I have not mentioned yet. Oh, and Orcs.

The first adventure would be " Crypt of the Everflame" from Paizo, since it makes a fantastic starting point for characters. After that, I have plans...

Basic premise is that the characters are the most promising youths from Kassen, a village in the north of Nirmathas. All start as level 1, with a mentor in the town, which I will detail if there is enough interest.
I will allow all base classes from the official Paizo books (Ultimate Combat, Ultimate Magic, PHB and the Advanced Player's Handbook). With races, I will stick to the ones in the PHB.

If you can post daily, that would be perfect, every other day would also be fine, but no less than that, if possible.

Dice rolling would happen at invisiblecastle.
Please let me know if there is any interest.

Q’barra. New Galifer. The frontier of Khorvaire. Settled by refugees and pirates fleeing the Last War, life here has remained a harsh existence on the literal edge of civilization. Dinosaurs, lizardfolk and worse lurk in the jungles, but that is not enough to deter the afraid, the idealistic and the greedy. With the discovery of rich veins of dragonshards in the swamps, the dragonmarked houses descend upon the fledgling nation. Today, they all have some presence in the capital of Newthrone, but sometimes they are unwilling to send their valuable marked heirs into the depths, especially into the lawless region of Hope.

Drellin’s Ferry lies just on the edge of this region and is the southernmost extent of New Galifer. House Orien has several deliveries that need to be made to this region, but they are unwilling to order family members risk the lives and talents. As a result, they have recruited a group of five mercenaries to make the trek instead, tasking each with a package to deliver. You are one of these mercenaries.

Setting: Eberron
System: Pathfinder
Level: 5th
Players: Five
The Plan: I’ve lurked on EnWorld for a while, but following the Kickstarter, I’ve decided to be a more active participant. Curse of the Cold Sun is a version of The Red Hand of Doom that has been adapted to Eberron. I would like to carry the campaign beyond the end of the adventure itself, but that obviously depends on people’s interest. This will be more a regional game, so you likely will not leave Q’barra until after the adventure concludes.

Races: Any of the standard seven and Eberron races are allowed. Goblin characters are also allowed (encouraged even!) but their background must be “city” goblins. Kalashtar and Changelings add +2 to any one attribute, while warforged no longer suffer the penalty to wisdom. For shifter changes, see the stat block below.



Classes: Any pathfinder class. Please note that while I allow gunslingers in Eberron, they are extremely rare, not at all organized and thought to be slightly crazy since magic is far more reliable than gunpowder from the average person’s POV. Classes from other sources, particularly WotC, will be apprised on an individual basis. Psionics from DSP are also allowed if they fit the character’s background.
Traits: Everyone gets two.
Ability Scores: Generate using 20 point buy
HP: Full at first level, then half+1 at each level afterwards.
Starting gold: 10500 galifers
Alignment: Any non-evil.
Background: Doesn’t need to be huge, but it does need to include what the package you are carrying is and who in Drellin’s Ferry you will be delivering it to. I will provide a list of potential recipients below. I’d also appreciate it if you could give me two goals: One that your PC has have for her/himself and one that you have for your character or the game.

Running Barbarians of Lemuria through the Tomb of Horrors module. Simple as that. Takes guts on the part of the players as ToH has killed more characters than an orc horde.

What i hate is DMs with wavering confidence in their ability to run games. These kids .... if I get 4+ players, I'll introduce my house-rules that enhance character capabilities within the BoL system.

I'm all about player capability.

This game happens only because my TOotS (The Order or the Stick) site is down. Thank thine whatever patron cosmic anomaly. I'll give it 4 days & decide then, based on interest.

So I just read Dungeon World, and it blew my mind. Now I want to try and run it. Alot of the system is about improvisation, and it is very map light. It is a perfect match for my preferred style of Pbp.
Its like AD&D, but with lots of good game mastering advice coded into the rules. Online rules here its also based on a game called Apocalypse world, which is slightly older.

As a warning this game will not run all that long, and will prolly take some kind of break when I move in early June.

Classes: Bard, cleric, druid, fighter, paladin, ranger, thief, wizard. Some have race options.
Stats 3-18, use the starting array, level 1. Planning for level 4 or higher seems very optimistic
Looking for 4-6 players, who are willing to collaborate on an adventure.

This is from the section on a Dungeonworld DM's Agenda:
• Portray a fantastic world
• Fill the characters’ lives with adventure
• Play to find out what happens

My basic setting starts in the aftermath (less than a year) of a war against a lich and his undead hordes.
The forces of the living won, but not completely. The rest of the setting and story will be worked out in collaboration.

Greetings all. I have been running a slow and leisurely PbP, the beginning of which can be seen here:

OOC: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthr...Core-4th-Ed%29
IC: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthr...mp-W-4th-ed%29

I've been enjoying it, but there's been a bit of a push and pull between the campaign being mostly Dungeon crawls (the original goal) and a bit more open with intrigue and mysteries. As such, I think I want to create two groups in the campaign world. These are the:

Dungeon Delvers (4-5 players)
Whatever Seems Interesting (2-3 players)

Characters will not be required to stay in their initial group, and they may band together (or perhaps even work at cross purposes at some points).

Character generation rules can be found in the OOC thread, but basically are the classes from Swords and Wizardry, 4th edition (not the 'Complete' rules), The basic rules for character generation are in post #2.

If you're interested, post here first and say which group you want to join. I'll note that there's likely only room for one player in the WSI group as we have one Elf, and a Dwarven Cleric. If you're willing to take over a former player's PC, there's a Fighter called Stellan who has been basically NPCed since the start and would be in the WSI group.

We have a Halfling in the Dungeon Delvers group.

One other complication is that we also have a Human Cleric who may not be returning, but if he does I'm not sure which group he will prefer. For now I will fill slots and assume he won't be coming back, but will then let him decide where he wants to go.

If you aren't sure whether you would like this campaign, my basic philosophy is old school. Dice are not fudged. If your character dies, well, it's a decent sized town and there are probably other adventuring types willing to join in (in other words, you can roll up a new character). My combat style is fairly loose. You tell me what you want to do, I tell you when it happens and what happens based on your die rolls (using the S&W combat rules of course). If you read through the two IC threads, you can get an idea of how things have gone previously...

I will hold this open until May 1st, and hopefully the campaign will continue with new players then!

Alright, so unfortunately, my SCI FI game didn't garner enough interest, so I'm going to be trying something else instead :
Who likes WOD?

New World of Darkness & Vampire:Requiem specifically.. though really, still calling it 'new' when it's been out for almost a Decade is rather amusing..

Anyways, I have a setting in mind, and I'd like to get some prospective player feedback before I post too much detail about what's happening.

If I can find players that are willing and able, I'd PREFER to try the game as follows:


If people don't want to do that, though, the more standard game style is possible. What I want to know right away is if there are any players who wish to try the more player driven chronicle.

Either way, Both games would be the same setting and similar overall stories (Though obviously with differences due to Player driven vs NPC driven story threads).



What I want from you all right now is threefold:
A) Interest,
B) whether you're good for the Player Driven Campaign or would be more comfortable with a more standard campaign, and
C) Basic Character concept.

Will post up more details on what's going on when I've gotten some replies.

@Scott DeWar : I would like to regularly cast Guidance on the party prior to entering a new space or engaging a new target.

It is a standard action that lasts a minute (or at discharge), so with four in the party, it should take me 24sec. That should give everyone enough time to engage and perform an action before time runs out.

Am I reading that right? Will you allow it?

If you've always wanted to make your own Superhero - This Game is for You.

Recruiting? We may have an open spot or two. Chime in if you are interested.

Who is Thondor?
I am the designer of Superheroes Unleashed. I’ve been around ENworld for a while, and played in a few PbP games here and even run one (briefly).




What is Superheroes Unleashed?
A structured free-form Superhero Game in Pre-release.
You can download The Heart of Simple Superheroes for free which lays out the majority of the rules of the game.
If your keen and interested in supporting development you can purchase ISSUE 0, a pre-release version of the game. Purchasing the game is not required to play.

What are the Assumptions for this Play-by-Post?

1. Your character will be a City-level hero. Meaning he can have pretty wacky powers, but there will be notable limitations.
2. A friendly, bantering, not particularly high rea lism game. Your costumed heroes out to foil the villains diabolical plot ‘nuff said.
3. All players are on a Team. Team name TBD.
4. Scenario’s/Issues will be short. I’m hoping to have a short quickly resolved story or two. Hopefully this will fit in well with the drop-in drop-out nature of PbP.

Character Creation
This is outlined in detail in Heart of Simple Superheroes.
Note that making your character should feel like Brainstorming. I’ll probably discuss at least a few points for each players character to make sure we are on the same page.

Example Characters:
There are two example characters on the website; and a couple more in the forum.
Below is a straightforward example formatted appropriately.






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[Ignore - Realise I don't have time to run this after all]

I recently purchased Nights Black Agents and, given that my face to face group starts making warding gestures at anything that is not 3.5, I figured I would give running in via these forums a shot. Would anybody be interested in playing in it?

Some notes:
1 - I have never DMed anything before face to face, let alone pbp. So keep that in mind as I am likely to make mistakes. Players who accept that *and* are willing to offer suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
2 - I have yet to receive the book (deliver faster Mr Mailman!!). As soon as I get it, there will be some time required for me to read it and digest it. Probably a couple of weeks.
3 - It would be one of the pre-made adventures that are available.

This is a setting I've been rolling around in my head for a while, and I've got a short scenario I want to test it with (no epic campaigns this time, but if it starts well I've got material to continue it).

The idea is a game set in the real world ca. 600AD, but one where everything written by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bede, the Beowulf poet and the compilers of the Mabinogion and the Nibelunglied is true. It's a world where Christian missionaries strive to drive out the old gods, faced with a hostile land of demons and monsters, where the Britons, one hundred years after the death of Arthur, are facing the threat of the Anglo-Saxons, where the Western Roman Empire has long since been carved up by Goths, Huns and Vandals but lives on in the Eastern Roman Empire in the shining city of Constantinople.

The game starts on the borders between the Welsh kingdom of Powys and the Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Characters are men and women in the loyal service of Llewllyn ap Rhys, Lord of Trefaldwyn - loyal because they are honourable, loyal because they are related to the Lord, or merely loyal as long as they are paid, any motivation you wish.

The Crunchy stuff -

Pathfinder, 15 point buy.
Any core class except monk and paladin is acceptable. Any core race is acceptable, although "orcs" are not a race in this setting, so a half-orc would be known as a half-troll, half-goblin or some such. Average starting gold for equipment. Some non-standard races might fit, ask if there's something you really want.

Fighters, rogues, and rangers could be anything. Wizards and sorcerers would not be distinguished by most people. Barbarians would likely be Pictish or Norse mercenaries, although there's no reason they couldn't be Celtic or Saxon warriors either.
Bards and Druids, of course, stem from Welsh culture and are a good fit, although the old druidic faith is in decline (The Romano-Celts who have developed into the Welsh have been Christianised for some time). The druids are mainly found on their island Ynys Mon, but some would exist.

Clerics and Religion
The Welsh are largely Christian, but the Saxons still largely follow their pagan gods such as Woden, Tiw and Thunar, Teutonic version of the Norse gods Odin, Tyr and Thor. They also venerate nature, as do some Celts still, particularly sacred trees and pools, the sun and the moon. Pope Gregory has sent Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury, to be his emissary in the British Isles and bring Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons.

This era is before the crusading cleric of later mediavel history - the typical Christian cleric is a humble missionary (Dewi, aka St. David, a companion of Arthur, established a monastic tradition in the kingdoms of Wales). Christian clerics use d6 hit die and a poor BAB, but have a base 6 skill points instead of 2. They may select from the domains of Community, Glory, Good, Healing, Knowledge, Liberation, Nobility, Protection, Repose (Pharasma version), and Sun. They may also select the Love subdomain of Charm (but not Charm itself or (Heaven forfend!) Lust. All other subdomains of the above domains are allowed, apart from the Ancestors domain of Repose (smacks of paganism).

For pagan clerics, Domain choices should be fairly easy to work out from similar deities already published.

Disclaimers
It shouldn't be necessary to have an in-depth knowledge of the 6th-7th century history, politics and theology, nor to speak Welsh, in order to play the game, although even a passing interest in such things means you are more likely to get something out of the game. Further, although the game uses real-world faiths I'm not in the business of passing judgement on anyone's religion, nor trying to promote one.

Hey En World! Long time no see!

As a result of the upcoming new Dragonball Z movie rousing me from my slumber I'm happy to announce that I am looking for players to join in a game of the recently released Shonen Final Burst.

For those of you who don't know (which is likely most if not all of you), Shonen Final Burst is a small Indie game released earlier this year that seeks to emulate many of the standard tropes of Shonen anime (Such as Dragonball, Bleach, Naruto and so forth) in the same way that Mutants and Masterminds has done for the comic book scene. In my opinion it is an absolute success at that goal, building a fundamentally sound system that allows for quick, interesting and tactical combat, while at the same time relying on Mutants and Masterminds style 'reskinning' to avoid the massive bloat that plagues systems that try and cling too close to the source material.

With all that said I am looking for a group of no less than three and no more than five players to undertake what amounts to a playtest with me. I have yet to decide on a particular setting, but given the way I am trending at the moment it would be best to describe it as... dragonball-esque. It will have a heavy focus on martial arts (preferably hand to hand but I am quite flexible in this regard), tournament fighting and adventure. If people want to keep to a specific setting I can probably be convinced, otherwise we'll go with something new but flavorful.

Characters will be started at first level, but that does not mean they are necessarily weak within the system. Shonen Final Burst uses the anime concept of Cyclical Power, the next big bad guy is always the strongest thing they've ever faced. Players actually get reset down to the starting level after each major arc, keeping minor perks to show their progress while the pinacle of power from the last arc becomes the sort of baseline of the new one (Re: Super Saiyan kids). I imagine characters to be well respected martial artists, though nowhere near the top of the world.

The basic rules for the system can be found here. Players who are interested in the setting or the rules system can contact me through PM or at my E-Mail. I'll give it a week or so to gather enough players and get everybody set up with their characters.