Story Hours Index (Authors, add your own):

[MightyBob]

Title: Fate and Glory on the High Seas...
Author: MightyBob
Number of Threads: 1

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...

 

[Trench]

Ptolus- The Tenth Precinct
Author: Trench
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Fantasy/Police Procedural/Noir
System: D&D 3.5
Setting: Ptolus

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.

 

[Lothred]

Title: Dark Heresy - Agents of the Inquisition
Author: Anthony Allison
Number of Threads: 1

Type: Sci-Fi
System: Warhammer 40,000 Dark Heresy
Setting: Warhammer 40,000; Planet Scintilla

Started: 22 March 2008
Status: Ongoing
Average Installment Length: Long/Verbose
Average Frequency of Installments: Weekly

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

Overview: Our group's misadventures in the new Dark Heresy game system

 

[Brimshack]

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.

 

[Iron Sky]

Title: The Rise of Felskein
Author: Iron Sky
Number of Threads: 1

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

Started: Thread started 7 April 2008. Campaign started early-mid 2007.
Status: Complete
Average Installment Length: Moderate
Average Frequency of Installments: None

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

 

[talien]

Title: The Beginning of the End
Author: Michael Tresca
Number of Threads: 1

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.

Blech. The end there made me SQUIRM.

Special: Blacknet Wiki

 

[Brenda Arcane]

Title: The Travel Journal of Eris by Starlight (Keep on the Shadowfell)
Author: Brenda Arcane
Number of Threads: 1

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.

 

[PwrMnky]

Death Puppets: a journal

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.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Title: Tallarn's Keep On The Shadowfell
Author: Tallarn
Number of threads: 1

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.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

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.