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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KirayaTiDrekan" data-source="post: 6342474" data-attributes="member: 6755061">Life on the frontier has always been difficult.  The Barony of Vedlund has stood ever vigilant against the orcs and other monsters lurking in the mountains to the east.  Vedlund scouts risk life and limb during the summer months patrolling the foothills, watching for signs of orcish activity.  Last year, Lord Jannus' de Vedlund's own brother, Captain Pirren, died while on patrol.  Pirren's son, Astor, has dutifully taken his father's place as Captain of the Barony's militia, but Astor is still a young man, barely old enough to hold rank.  To prove himself, Astor has, perhaps recklessly, volunteered to scout out a rumored nest of orc activity, the main hub from which orc raiders have been attacking supply lines between Vedlund and the mountain barony of Silvergard.  Astor now seeks volunteers to join him.  The rewards could be substantial, but so is the risk.  The older and wiser among the scouts believe the mission is a fool's errand, likely to get all involved killed.  Astor is thus seeking those with little experience but plenty of courage...and perhaps a little crazy.In February, 2007, I, under the name crazypixie, which was later changed to crazy_monkey1956, started my first Play-by-Post on EN World - Paths of Legend: Tragedy at Silvergard.  That was my most successful PbP ever and the setting, Paths of Legend, is due for a revival, I think.  Recent endeavors in the realm of PbP have been less than stellar, so I am returning to my roots.  We will be using the P<a href="http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/" target="_blank">athfinder SRD </a>for character options, plus a limited selection of 3rd party products - 1001 Spells from Rite Publishing, In the Company of Monsters by Rite Publishing, and Book of Heroic Races: Seedlings by Jon Brazer Enterprises.  Ability scores should be generated via 25 point-buy.  Every race, class, archetype, and many other character details have specific background details that tie them to the homebrew setting of Paths of Legend so let me know what you want to play and I'll provide the setting details specific to your choices.  Starting level is, of course, 1.  This adventure is planned to be relatively short but also Part 1 of a trilogy that continues with Paths of Legend: Requiem and Paths of Legend: Rebirth, if there is sufficient interest, of course.  I'd like to maintain a minimum posting rate of once a week, though we'll go faster if everyone is cool with it.If you happen to have played in the Paths of Legend setting all those years ago, this adventure takes place in the year 1157 (the last PbP in Paths of Legend was set in 1152).  I'm keeping the scale, setting wise, relatively small, so I can introduce details organically as the player characters discover them.I'm hoping for five players, minimum.  Let's play!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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