Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
Playing the Game
Talking the Talk
[OOC] What Adventure Awaits?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 5375539" data-attributes="member: 2795"><p><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/playing-game/297732-pf-what-adventure-awaits.html" target="_blank">In Character Thread</a></p><p></p><p>Okay, realizing that this might engender some skepticism, I think my life is sufficiently reassembled for me to take up the reins of PbP again. I want to try something a little bit different. First, please go read <a href="http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/whose-game-is-it-anyways" target="_blank">this article at Gnome Stew</a>, and then come back here. I'll wait. Done reading? Good! Please continue reading this post.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>The Set-Up</strong></span></p><p>I want to run a <em>Pathfinder</em> game using the core rulebook and the <em>Advanced Players Guide</em> <u>only</u>. Characters start at 2nd level with double maximum starting gold for their respective character classes and sufficient XP to just have reached 2nd level. <a href="http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/character-creation" target="_blank">Use 15-point point buy for ability scores</a>, but no single ability score can be lower than 9 prior to racial adjustments. Maximum hit points at 1st level; roll for 2nd-level hit points. All characters start with either two traits or one feat more than normal.</p><p></p><p>I want to limit party size to four characters. I'm kind of a first-come, first-served sort of guy, but that's only a tendency. I'm not concerned about party balance, although I do want everyone's characters to be good guys.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>Plot Elements</strong></span></p><p>Along with your character, please provide two plot elements you'd like to see in the game. Don't get too elaborate or overly specific. Also, <u>don't</u> post these plot elements to the thread or discuss them with each other. Instead, email plot elements to me at <strong>mark</strong> at <strong>spesmagna</strong> dot <strong>com</strong>.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>The Game Begins</strong></span></p><p>The PCs all know each other. They start in <a href="http://www.fantasymapmaker.com/gragmoor-quarry-by-nick-pelletier/" target="_blank">Gragmoor Quarry</a>. I'll leave the details of how the PCs know each other to the approved players. Once I've got the characters approved and all the plot elements assembled, the adventure will begin based on the aforementioned elements.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>Game Background: A Work in Progress</strong></span></p><p>Gragmoor Quarry stands in a frontier region, and it serves as the seat of government for the County of Acetam. Gragmoor Quarry is a young community, having been established 50 years ago. The current royal official in charge of the region is Count Olaf II, whose father was first sent to the area by the King in Meir far to the north.</p><p></p><p>Olaf II has proved less wise than his father, and tensions between Crown's representative and the Lacador Monks, who have an older claim to Gragmoor, have resurfaced.</p><p></p><p>Gragmoor remains an important waystation for travelers moving from the Southern Kingdom to the Northern Kingdom, and vice versa. Gragmoor has a relatively small permanent population, and a comparatively larger transient one. Most of the inhabitants -- permanent or temporary -- are human, but other races are there.</p><p></p><p>Most of the Lacador Monks are dwarves with a smaller number of gnomes and halflings. Elves from nearby woodlands often come to Gragmoor to trade. Most remarkable is Gragmoor's small but vibrant population of hobgoblins. These hobgoblins emigrated to Gragmoor shortly after its founding. Lacador missionaries had made significant in-roads with the hobgoblin tribes long before Gragmoor was built.</p><p></p><p>When Temujin, a fearsome ogre chieftan, rose to power in the Sable Highlands, he quickly subjugated weaker tribes under his standard. Most of the hobgoblins refused to submit, and Temujin waged a series of reprisals and persecutions. The hobgoblins fled their native lands for the protection of Gragmoor. Owing to the intercession of the Lacador Monks, the hobgoblins were granted North Kingdom citizenship and permitted to settle along the frontier between the Two Kingdoms.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>Gods and Goddesses</strong></span></p><p>Desna, Goddess of Freedom and Luck: <em>alignment</em> CG; <em>domains</em> chaos, good, liberation, luck, travel</p><p>Gozreh, God/Goddess of Nature, the Sky, and the Sea; <em>alignment</em> neutral; <em>domains</em> air, animal, plant, water, weather </p><p>Lacador, Goddess of Agriculture: <em>alignment</em> LN; <em>domains</em> community, law, plant, sun, weather</p><p>Nomog-Geaya, God of Hobgoblins: <em>alignment</em> LE; <em>domains</em> earth, evil, law, repose, war</p><p>Ravlimos, God of Ogres: <em>alignment</em> CE; <em>domains</em> chaos, destruction, evil, strength, war</p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>Dramatis Personae</strong></span></p><p>Scott DeWar: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5378896-post20.html" target="_blank">Berm McKaffe</a>, human rogue 2</p><p>Aldern Foxglove: <a href="http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=10166" target="_blank">Zantalus</a>, elf transmuter 2</p><p>jkason: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5391624-post50.html" target="_blank">Kaer Fegavas</a>, human barbarian 2</p><p><span style="color: DarkSlateGray">satinder: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5462163-post96.html" target="_blank">Crusher Strongbrew</a>, dwarf cleric 2</span></p><p>Herobizkit: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5522424-post138.html" target="_blank">Shalaye</a>, elf oracle 2 | <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5382256-post39.html" target="_blank">Background</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>NPCs</strong></span></p><p>* Anissa, Monkey Trainer</p><p>* Bazemi Twins, Fandrake's Star Tumblers</p><p>* Fandrake, Stern Master of Acrobats</p><p>* Gebbert Kurt, male dwarf cleric of Lacador</p><p>* Houba, Mistress of Whips</p><p>* Ironbeard Brothers, Conjoined Dwarves</p><p>* Rorbi, Cook</p><p>* Sašo Viljem, male halfling cleric of Lacador</p><p>* Sheria, Mistress of Bears and Bearded Lady Understudy</p><p>* Snotty Angus, Local Urchin</p><p>* Tashiri, Dancing Girl and Rorbi's Girlfriend</p><p>* Timit, Apprentice Acrobat</p><p>* Vandro, Rorbi's Simple but Earnest Teenage Son</p><p>* Vitor Lino, Town Guard and Kaer Drinking Buddy</p><p></p><p><span style="color: limegreen"><strong>Maps</strong></span></p><p><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/mark-chance-albums-mlc-s-pix-picture1432-playertowermap.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>The Haunted Bailey Player Map</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Chance, post: 5375539, member: 2795"] [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/playing-game/297732-pf-what-adventure-awaits.html]In Character Thread[/url] Okay, realizing that this might engender some skepticism, I think my life is sufficiently reassembled for me to take up the reins of PbP again. I want to try something a little bit different. First, please go read [url=http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/whose-game-is-it-anyways]this article at Gnome Stew[/url], and then come back here. I'll wait. Done reading? Good! Please continue reading this post. [color=limegreen][b]The Set-Up[/b][/color] I want to run a [i]Pathfinder[/i] game using the core rulebook and the [i]Advanced Players Guide[/i] [u]only[/u]. Characters start at 2nd level with double maximum starting gold for their respective character classes and sufficient XP to just have reached 2nd level. [url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/basics-ability-scores/character-creation]Use 15-point point buy for ability scores[/url], but no single ability score can be lower than 9 prior to racial adjustments. Maximum hit points at 1st level; roll for 2nd-level hit points. All characters start with either two traits or one feat more than normal. I want to limit party size to four characters. I'm kind of a first-come, first-served sort of guy, but that's only a tendency. I'm not concerned about party balance, although I do want everyone's characters to be good guys. [color=limegreen][b]Plot Elements[/b][/color] Along with your character, please provide two plot elements you'd like to see in the game. Don't get too elaborate or overly specific. Also, [u]don't[/u] post these plot elements to the thread or discuss them with each other. Instead, email plot elements to me at [b]mark[/b] at [b]spesmagna[/b] dot [b]com[/b]. [color=limegreen][b]The Game Begins[/b][/color] The PCs all know each other. They start in [url=http://www.fantasymapmaker.com/gragmoor-quarry-by-nick-pelletier/]Gragmoor Quarry[/url]. I'll leave the details of how the PCs know each other to the approved players. Once I've got the characters approved and all the plot elements assembled, the adventure will begin based on the aforementioned elements. [color=limegreen][b]Game Background: A Work in Progress[/b][/color] Gragmoor Quarry stands in a frontier region, and it serves as the seat of government for the County of Acetam. Gragmoor Quarry is a young community, having been established 50 years ago. The current royal official in charge of the region is Count Olaf II, whose father was first sent to the area by the King in Meir far to the north. Olaf II has proved less wise than his father, and tensions between Crown's representative and the Lacador Monks, who have an older claim to Gragmoor, have resurfaced. Gragmoor remains an important waystation for travelers moving from the Southern Kingdom to the Northern Kingdom, and vice versa. Gragmoor has a relatively small permanent population, and a comparatively larger transient one. Most of the inhabitants -- permanent or temporary -- are human, but other races are there. Most of the Lacador Monks are dwarves with a smaller number of gnomes and halflings. Elves from nearby woodlands often come to Gragmoor to trade. Most remarkable is Gragmoor's small but vibrant population of hobgoblins. These hobgoblins emigrated to Gragmoor shortly after its founding. Lacador missionaries had made significant in-roads with the hobgoblin tribes long before Gragmoor was built. When Temujin, a fearsome ogre chieftan, rose to power in the Sable Highlands, he quickly subjugated weaker tribes under his standard. Most of the hobgoblins refused to submit, and Temujin waged a series of reprisals and persecutions. The hobgoblins fled their native lands for the protection of Gragmoor. Owing to the intercession of the Lacador Monks, the hobgoblins were granted North Kingdom citizenship and permitted to settle along the frontier between the Two Kingdoms. [color=limegreen][b]Gods and Goddesses[/b][/color] Desna, Goddess of Freedom and Luck: [i]alignment[/i] CG; [i]domains[/i] chaos, good, liberation, luck, travel Gozreh, God/Goddess of Nature, the Sky, and the Sea; [i]alignment[/i] neutral; [i]domains[/i] air, animal, plant, water, weather Lacador, Goddess of Agriculture: [i]alignment[/i] LN; [i]domains[/i] community, law, plant, sun, weather Nomog-Geaya, God of Hobgoblins: [i]alignment[/i] LE; [i]domains[/i] earth, evil, law, repose, war Ravlimos, God of Ogres: [i]alignment[/i] CE; [i]domains[/i] chaos, destruction, evil, strength, war [color=limegreen][b]Dramatis Personae[/b][/color] Scott DeWar: [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/5378896-post20.html]Berm McKaffe[/url], human rogue 2 Aldern Foxglove: [url=http://www.dndsheets.net/view.php?id=10166]Zantalus[/url], elf transmuter 2 jkason: [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/5391624-post50.html]Kaer Fegavas[/url], human barbarian 2 [COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]satinder: [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/5462163-post96.html]Crusher Strongbrew[/url], dwarf cleric 2[/color] Herobizkit: [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/5522424-post138.html]Shalaye[/url], elf oracle 2 | [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/5382256-post39.html]Background[/url] [color=limegreen][b]NPCs[/b][/color] * Anissa, Monkey Trainer * Bazemi Twins, Fandrake's Star Tumblers * Fandrake, Stern Master of Acrobats * Gebbert Kurt, male dwarf cleric of Lacador * Houba, Mistress of Whips * Ironbeard Brothers, Conjoined Dwarves * Rorbi, Cook * Sašo Viljem, male halfling cleric of Lacador * Sheria, Mistress of Bears and Bearded Lady Understudy * Snotty Angus, Local Urchin * Tashiri, Dancing Girl and Rorbi's Girlfriend * Timit, Apprentice Acrobat * Vandro, Rorbi's Simple but Earnest Teenage Son * Vitor Lino, Town Guard and Kaer Drinking Buddy [color=limegreen][b]Maps[/b][/color] [IMG]http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/mark-chance-albums-mlc-s-pix-picture1432-playertowermap.jpg[/IMG] The Haunted Bailey Player Map [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Playing the Game
Talking the Talk
[OOC] What Adventure Awaits?
Top