Story HourPost your ongoing tales from your campaigns, and read those from others for inspiration. Lots of other RPG boards post "Story Hours", but this is where it started!
Title: Tales of Cydra Author: the Jester Number of Threads: 10 (see links below)
Type: D&D, running from 2nd edition to 3.5 and (eventually) beyond! System: D&D, various editions, with occasional crossovers Setting: Homebrew: Cydra. Cydra is a water world that takes place on the inside surface of a gargantuan air bubble some 780,000 miles in diameter.
Started: 25 July 2002 (first thread) Status: Ongoing. Several threads are completed, but the story goes on. Average Installment Length: Medium (approx. 1500 words). Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly in each thread; often more frequent, occasionally less frequent.
Available for Download? No Style: 3rd person narrative prose, with occasional winks to the underlying mechanics. There is a good amount of humor mixed with serious fantasy, horror, etc. Overview: Much of the campaign world's focus is Law vs. Chaos, instead of the more typical Good vs. Evil. The various threads trace the evolution of the campaign since its inception (about 1994?), including many of the tales of both heroes and villains.
Reader Comment: "This is one of the better storyhours I've read. You have a very natural flow in your writing, it's easy and enjoyable to read and it also has a relatively original and entertaining flavour. I've never come across the concept of extradimentional colons and orca penis rings before." - Serpenteye
*Completed thread. Please note that most of the threads that are not technically complete are not being updated actively; the ones in my sig are the active ones. Also, please note that a new thread will be starting in the epic cycle before too long.
Title: Tales of the Darkened Land Author: Nathan P. Mahney Number of Threads: 1
Type: Fantasy System: D&D 3.0/3.5 hybrid Setting: The Darkened Land (a homebrew)
Started: 21 December 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Long Average Frequency of Installments: Monthly
Available for Download? No Style: Narrated by a storyteller
Overview: In a world where the forces of evil have won and the land is in eternal night, a group of adventurers try their best to beat back the darkness.
Started: 28 December 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Medium Average Frequency of Installments: Bi-Weekly
Available for Download? No Style: 3rd person narrative prose
Overview: The Eight Noble Houses have always been the main driving force in the world, and things went well until two Houses began to fight amongst each other. If they start a war, it could mean the beginning of a dark and bloody age...
Reader Comment: few, but very encouraging
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Type: Horror
System: d20 / Modern
Setting: Earth 1925
Started: 10/05/05
Status: Ongoing (but nearly completed)
Average Installment Length: Medium
Average Frequency of Installments: Bi-monthly. Sometimes weekly
Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative prose, with extensive asides to the underlying mechanics
Overview: Story version of Chaosium's famous campaign, adapted to d20
Title:Manifest Destiny Author: Tim "Warlord Ralts" Willard Number of Threads: 1
Type: Fantasy/Horror/Exploration. System: D&D 3.5e Setting: The New World
Started: 6 Jan 2009 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Varies Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly
Available for Download? No Style: 3rd person narrative prose, with occasional winks to the underlying mechanics
Overview: Four companions, throw together by fate and lottery numbers, discovering that the New World may not be so new, and the things are not always what they seem.
Those losers? Scumbags that ain't even welcome in the Voss. See that gimp down there, the one with the purple hair? Yeah, he tried jacking Pig-Iron, so we tossed him off the wall. Loser.-Nicky "Green thumb" Torrentia, Prisoner # 44563
Type: Adult themed pirate low magic fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: Home Brew
Started: 14/2/2008
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium
Average Frequency of Installments: Bi-Monthly
Available for Download? No
Style: Journal format with blend of 3rd/1st person prose coming from 2 different perspectives.
Overview: Tales of Mocker, an insane spirit shaman ,and his Monk/Were-bear guardian Uquilli as they roam the open waters aboard the pirate vessel Flaming <censored>
Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 3.5e
Setting: Custom, but standard D&D fair
Started: 03/07/2008
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Medium
Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly
Available for Download? No
Style: 3rd person narrative
Overview: A motly group that's currently trapped running errands for a silver dragon vampire. Meanwhile, the summer has lasted about 3 months too long and the stars are all out of wack, which is an issue when sailing. Of course, that's got nothing to do with us... no sir...
Started: March, 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: About 1000 words each, although it may vary Average Frequency of Installments: Bi-Weekly.
Available for Download: No Style: Third person prose, with asides about mechanics and behind the scenes motivations and plots. Overview: This is a police procedural campaign set in the Monte Cook setting of Ptolus. It features a special task force dedicated to investigating those mysteries that the regular City Watch simply doesn't have time for. There's corruption, murder, mad plots, and shadowy villains who still haven't been revealed to the PC's.
The campaign has been a PbP game for almost a year now, hence it's very dialouge driven but with more than enough action to satisfy most.
Title: "Healing Moments" with Alyra Kyne
Author: Dan Wall AKA "Brimshack"
Number of Threads: 1
Type: Fantasy
System: Experimental ETC-RPG (Crunch-Waffle)
Setting: Think Lord of the Rings in the Twilight Zone (much ad libbing going on)
Started: Initially in July of 2007, with 3 groups run prior to this. The segment narrated here began in March, 2008
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Varies
Average Frequency of Installments: Variable, but I am trying for at least 1 a week
Available for Download? No
Style: 1st person narrative
Overview: Soft Hearted Girl tries to make sense of a hard hearted world.
Started: Thread started 7 April 2008. Campaign started early-mid 2007. Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Moderate Average Frequency of Installments: 1-2 times weekly.
Available for Download: No Style: 3rd person narrative prose.
Overview: The adventures of four companions on the continent of Felskein. Roughly fits into three "chapters": 1) Prelude - fighting the Iron Tribe hobgoblins, with glimpses of greater, darker things happening in the larger world. 2) Journey - the group's thousand-mile journey to the Crystal Towers. 3) Quest - The party seeks artifacts to reactivate the defense network that an extinct race built to protect the whole of Felskein.
Reader Comment: "I'm enjoying it very much. Keep it up. " -Ed Gentry
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Type: Modern System: D20 Modern Setting: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, GURPS Black Ops, Conspiracy X Started: December 10, 2007 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Short Average Frequency of Installments: Daily!
Available for Download? No Style: 3rd person narrative prose, with occasional winks to the underlying mechanics.
Overview: Delta Green, an secret agency dedicated to fighting paranormal threats to the world, has been absorbed into Majestic-12, which is in itself a secret division of the Counter-Intelligence Field Agency (CIFA). The agents' mission: determine the full extent of the alien threat and stop a nation-wide cultist conspiracy. Will Jim-Bean ever control his psychic powers? Will Guppy ever find out if he was really abducted by aliens? All will be answered...if the world doesn't end first.
Type: Fantasy System: D&D 4e Setting: Keep on the Shadowfell
Started: 23 June 2008 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Medium Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly Available for Download? No Style: Journal Overview: The story of a young Tiefling Warlock on her first adventure.
Title: Death Puppets: a journal Author: pwrmnky Number of Threads: 1
Type: Horror System: D&D 3.5e Setting: Ravenloft
Started: June, 2008 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Short Average Frequency of Installments: Once a month Available for Download? No Style: 1st person journal
Overview: Puppets take over a small town.
Special: This thread may contain spoilers for anyone running a Malingo campaign out of Ravenloft.
Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 4e
Setting: Implied setting - just going with what's in the PHB, DMG and MM, together with other WotC published material.
Started: September 2008
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment length: Short
Average Frequency of Installments: 1/week
Available to download: No
Style: 3rd person story
Overview: Running a group of gamers through each published module in the H, P and E series, hopefully taking characters from 1st to 30th level. We play every other week, but I've got a backlog of stuff to catch up with so I hope to be able to muster a post at least every week.
Special: Spoilers for Keep on the Shadowfell, Thunderspire Labyrinth, etc.
__________________ DM of Adventure Path Story Hour (now in Thunderspire Labyrinth!): Ryam Plays Dice - updated 8th June 09 (campaign on indefinite hiatus).
Player in Swordlands Story Hour: Interview with a Fey - updated 15th June 09. News just in - this campaign may be restarting in the near future! Watch this space!
I also have the singular honour of being Rouseketeer #20.
Title: The Swordlands
Author: Tallarn (& other members of the group, as noted in each post)
Number of threads: 1
Type: Fantasy
System: D&D 4e
Setting: Homebrew Norse-flavoured setting
Started: September 2008
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment length: Short
Average Frequency of Installments: 1/week
Available to download: No
Style: 3rd person story, moving to 1st person after a few posts.
Overview: A small group of adventurers, surviving a shipwreck, explore the Swordlands, a frozen and harsh land.
__________________ DM of Adventure Path Story Hour (now in Thunderspire Labyrinth!): Ryam Plays Dice - updated 8th June 09 (campaign on indefinite hiatus).
Player in Swordlands Story Hour: Interview with a Fey - updated 15th June 09. News just in - this campaign may be restarting in the near future! Watch this space!
I also have the singular honour of being Rouseketeer #20.
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