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Ao the Overkitty

First Post

• May 12, 2006

• #31

Title: Solar Circle of the West
Author: Ao the Overkitty
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy with Anime Influence
System: Exalted
Setting: Modified Version of the West in Creation

Game Started: 13 June 2005 (storyhour lost in server burp and reposted 11 May 2006)
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Long
Average Frequency of Installments: Periodic bursts of activity with occasionally multiple session posts in one day.

Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose with script form dialogue, with occasional player comments.

Overview: They once ruled over the West of Creation. Now they're just trying to get a handle on what it means to be Exalted. Come watch as the Unconquered Sun shakes his head and wonders if his other exalted are more competant. Watch as A-dom makes undead for fun and to annoy Jade's Luck (which are one and the same, really). Watch as the Lunar, Ceri, tries to save Creation from these idiots. Watch as Jahar summons demons because he thinks it's a good idea. They'll get better at the whole religion thing... I hope.

Solar Circle of the West website

 

Last edited: Dec 21, 2007

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hbarsquared

Quantum Chronomancer

• May 12, 2006

• #32

Title: A Lonely Path: a [smallcaps]Shackled City[/smallcaps] Story Hour
Author: Jeremy
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: Generic with a Mesopotamian Mythos

Started: 14 March 2005
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Short to Medium
Average Frequency of Installments: Approximately weekly

Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person, restricted point of view, past-tense narrative prose, with OOC comments of the underlying game mechanics

Overview: [smallcaps]Dungeon[/smallcaps] Magazine's Shackled City Adventure Path, attempted by a single character: Abrina, a cleric of Ninurta.

Reader Comment:

Herremann the Wise said:

This is an interesting exercise you're doing so keep it up. Look forward to reading more of your writing style, it's good.

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Last edited: May 13, 2006

shilsen

Adventurer

• May 13, 2006

• #33

Title: Shilsen's Saturday Story Hour
Author: shilsen
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: Eberron

Started: May 2006 (reposting after boards crashed)
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium to Long
Average Frequency of Installments: 1-3 weekly

Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person present-tense narrative prose, with some dialogue. Includes a number of 1st person past-tense in-character journal entries by a player. Original writeups were intended as recaps for players and not for a story hour, so starts off a little dry and hard to get into.

Overview: A bunch of very unlikely heroes (used loosely) try to make their way through the labyrinthine politics and other dangers of Eberron's most exciting and dangerous city - Sharn. Heavily character-driven and fairly open-ended campaign.

Reader Comment: "Watch a real RBDM at work." Gold Roger

 

Last edited: May 13, 2006

Rolzup

First Post

• May 13, 2006

• #34

Title: The Chronicle of Burne, and Some Others of Lesser Importance
Author: Rolzup
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: CITY

Started: 3 March, 2006
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium
Average Frequency of Installments: Thrice weekly, for the nonce.

Available for Download? No
Style: Unreliable 1st person prose, with occasional explanatory or narrative interludes.

Overview: Today, centuries after the fall of the mighty Gate-Builder empire, the people of CITY face many troubles. Fierce gangs of lawyer/thieves, memory-eating demons, evil cake, the dreaded Yu-Tang Clan, and the terrible Church Without Doors...just to name a few.

Fortunately for civilization, the mighty alchemist Burne is here to save CITY!

Or burn it to the ground.

Oh, and there's some foreigners who follow him around, too. But they're not as important as Burne, nor as attractive.

Reader Comment:

sandtiger said:

Hey,

Just wanted to say, keep writing. I am enjoying the (pompous) narrative. I found myself laughing out loud at work several times reading this. So, it's on your head if I get fired.

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Last edited: May 13, 2006

PhoenixAsh

First Post

• May 22, 2006

• #35

Adventure in the Open Skies: The Liralen Irregulars

Title: Adventure in the Open Skies: The Liralen Irregulars
Author: PhoenixAsh
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: Eberron

Started: 12 December 2005
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium
Average Frequency of Installments: Bi-monthly

Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose

Overview: The Adventures of a crew aboard the Dragonmarked House Lyrandar's airship, The Liralen. Adventure that spans a continent, with intrigue and action in the air and on the ground.

Reader Comment: "You know, I haven't even gotten past the third post, yet, and already I'm enthralled.

You have a great writing style and a sense of humor that you use incredibly effectively. Your painting of the characters in the first post introducing them is superb." - jeremy dnd

Special: Micah and Tmaas, our two DMs makes excellent maps using Dunjinni mapping software that she will often post to the storyhour itself. However, you can see their past collections as well as the latest maps that are troubling the PCs in this storyhourat the Dunjinni site message boards. Just check for posts under their user names.

 

Chimera

First Post

• May 29, 2006

• #36

Title: Chimera's Story Hour
Author: Chimera
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy (D&D).
System: D&D V3.5.
Setting: Homebrew.

Started: May 20th, 2006.
Status: Just Started
Average Installment Length: Verbose.
Average Frequency of Installments: Twice Monthy.

Available for Download? No.
Style: As written for the Players, plus additional narrative.

Overview: The Wild Lands were originally a neutral zone between the Elorhim (Psionic, spacefaring) and the Calaseans (powerful natural magic-users who control the world and enslave all other races). Now it is a protected region where the descendents of 'Free Humans' (previously escaped slaves) and those freed at the end of the big war 22 years ago try to build the first Free Human governments and Civilization.

Reader Comment: None!

Other Comments: Roughly 80 page Player's Guide of Setting information, House Rules, Character Creation, Geographic Information, Economics and Religion Details provided to players before game start.

House Rules pertain mostly to Wizards and Magic (very few spell components, no spell books, etc), Economics (Silver based, different scaling for magic items) and some character aspects.

 

Last edited: Jun 4, 2006

Piratecat

Sesquipedalian

• May 30, 2006

• #37

Title: Piratecat's storyhour reborn: from the beginning!
Author: Piratecat
Number of Threads: One active, three defunct and/or closed

Type: Fantasy (with story arcs of city/political and underdark/horror)
System: D&D 3e and 3.5e
Setting: Home campaign world of Spira, along with Planescape

Started: 9 May 2006 (original story hour began in 2000; this thread has new material but will repost edited and rewritten entries from the original threads.)
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium (1200-2000 words.)
Average Frequency of Installments: Currently weekly.

Available for Download? Not currently
Style: 3rd person narrative, with first person insights and occasional game insights.

Overview: In a slow-advancement long-running campaign (14 years and counting), this SH details an evolving adventuring group moving from mid- to epic-levels. It features darn clever players and some interesting twists on conventional adventure plotting.

Reader Comment: "I kinda got lost on the original thread and stopped reading. This'll be MUCH better!" ~ Brogam

Special: The campaign web site can be found at www.piratecat.org. Some brilliant group plotting takes place in The Thread That Must Not Be Named.

 

ForceUser

Explorer

• May 30, 2006

• #38

Title: The Cask of Winter
Author: ForceUser
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Epic Fantasy (style, not levels)
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: Homebrew High Medieval European

Started: 6 September 2005
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: 2000 words
Average Frequency of Installments: twice per month

Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose, with occasional winks to the underlying mechanics

Overview: A group of adventurers, at the behest of a secret society within the holy church, oppose vampires, witches, frost giants and more.

Reader Comment: "In a day when it seems that everyone's turning toward plane-hopping technomagic bigger-badder-more types of styles, your campaign smacks of an original, primeval core of D&D goodness with just enough mystery to keep players coming back time and again. Very, very well done.." --Destan

Special: Rogue's Gallery

 

Last edited: Jul 13, 2006

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Canaan

First Post

• Jun 14, 2006

• #39

Title: Tirlanolir's and D'nemy's Tales of Turgos

Author: Canaan (who is formerly Tirlanolir) and D'nemy

Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy

System: D&D 3.5e

Setting: brew

Started: like January 2006.

Status: Ongoing

Average Installment Length: Medium/Long

Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly

Available for Download? No

Style: 1st person journal style, with occasional winks to the underlying mechanics.

Overview: Ohhhh, it's a grand tale about childhood friends who grew up in Goldfire Glen told from the perspective of an outsider to Goldfire Glen who met them when they began their adventures. The world is monotheistic for the most part. Though there is the concept of The Green and the anti-god, The Adversary. The PCs uncover a plot against the national religion, Canaanism, which involves a group trying to resurrect a dead Archmage, so they think. Meanwhile, the government is pushing to annex parts of the Wildlands where most of the worshippers of The Green reside. The followers of The Green fear persecution and the destruction of their lands. Meanwhile, the Curia, the organization that runs the Church of Canaan, is pushing the government to invade The Wildlands to get to a place called Rappan'Athuk, where the supposed physical manifestation of a great evil resides. The PCs, are of course, caught in the middle of all of it.


Reader Comment: Mostly erased after the "Big Crash," sorry.

 

Sagiro

Rodent of Uncertain Parentage

• Jun 14, 2006

• #40

Title: Sagiro's Story Hour Returns
Author: Sagiro
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 2nd Ed, then 3.0, then 3.5e. It's been going on a while.
Setting: Homebrew

Started: 21 Jan 2002 (Campaign started in 1995; you can read the whole thing in the download linked below.)
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium (c.2500 words)
Average Frequency of Installments: Varies wildly with my free time; about 1/week when I'm on top of things. More typically, 1 per 2 weeks.

Available for Download? Yes
Style: 3rd person present tense
Overview: An epic many-layered adventure pitting the PC's against a variety of foes. It's been one continuous campaign for over 10 years of real time, during which the PC's have gone from 1st level to 17th.

Reader Comment: "And what a journey it’s been for all of us breathless readers to bring us to this point. I can’t wait to see what happens next! Congrats to Sagiro and the whole crew on a fine job so far." - Swack-Iron

 

Last edited: Jun 14, 2006