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Jovian
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Currently no longer accepting new player applications. Any other interest in similar dice roleplay can be sent to me in a PM because I may start another after this has finished or is further along.
The land of Kalyria has seen better days, though there are still a few elves who still live and remember those days. The king has fallen ill and his ostracized sister's son has been doing most of the kingly duties. Rumor has it that the king will be passing on soon and that the nephew will be taking his throne, much to the people's despair.
The roads have gotten far more dangerous since the king became ill. Animals and the occasional bandits aren't the only things that will attack travelers anymore, and some of these things are far more dangerous. Merchants are having to increase prices on goods as they travel in order to make up for the price of bodyguards for their caravans. Families in different areas have started to become alienated by each other because of the dangers and the inability to travel by caravan due to increased cost. Adventurers are going out to either see the world or to help decrease the dangers and never being heard from again by loved ones.
It's obvious something has changed since the king fell ill, but no one knows what to do and so the people in this world have become acclimated to the changes that have came to pass.
But then...
You had a dream about a girl, though you don't know how you knew the person was a woman. She told you to rescue her, and that you were being contacted along with a few others that she failed to name. Then she disappeared and you found yourself in a forest, and each step you took seemed to make the forest move faster under your feet. When you came to a cave opening, you were compelled to stop. Something told you that you couldn't go inside, and the loud roar that quickly followed that thought only made it more apparently that you should listen to that something.
As soon as the roar was done, you were transported to the courtyard of your hometown. There were shadows of people in the courtyard with you, and as they slowly gained color you had a feeling these were the others that woman had contacted.
Before you saw their faces, though, you were woken and weren't able to identify any of them.
You start in a small town with the basics - a blacksmith, small general store, church, a tavern, an inn, and a town hall with a jail in its basement. Everyone knows everyone within a few degrees of each other (meaning you know this person who knows this person that doesn't know you who knows this person who's heard of you who knows this person who knows you kind of thing). It's mostly a farming community, but there are some craftsmen and such that make a little money from merchants that pass through annually. There are no major water ways, only a small river a mile off that doesn't seem much traffic. There is only one road that circles around one side town, which has mostly large walkways through that are two horses wide.
Okay. So here's what I'll need for this to work.
1. I'm really a beginner DM and I don't know a whole heck of a lot because I've only DM'ed games in real life for a local group, and they were pretty much all beginners. If you need to tell me something I did wrong, PM me so I'm likely to get it faster. If it's something I need to address to the group, I'll put it in this thread after.
2. This world is not complete yet. For the most part, you guys are my guinea pigs! I want to play this with my local group, but I don't have all the details. I don't know what levels my baddies should be to be hard but not too hard, and all of that. Don't get upset if you are facing too many easy things and then BAM! you find something hard. I'm trying to figure things out by playing this once.
3. If you are someone who had DM'ed a lot and want to help me out, feel free to send me a PM. I will then send you what I am planning in small details so you can determine if you want to help or if you want to just watch me crash and burn. I am new to this so I won't blame anyone for the latter!
4. My players need to be willing to give me a review at the end of this. Even if you don't know a lot about the game and this was your first time playing, tell me the stuff you liked or didn't like. Please PM me with the review if you can.
And now for the final bit of information. Your character sheets and all that jazz.
This is going to be a point buy system for your ability scores. If you don't know about the point buy system, it's basically that you start with 10 in each ability and you spend your points to increase that to what you want, or you buy points by decreasing them. You can't go under 7 points and you can't purchase over 18.
My favorite ability score calculator is Jody White's Pathfinder Ability Score Calculator. I use it constantly and it works really well if you hate having to keep track of the numbers using that chart in the Core Rulebook or via Paizo. I think that d20pfsrd also has it's own ability score calculator too, but I haven't looked at it too closely.
Your character sheets can be posted using Myth Weavers or by filling out a sheet and having it scanned into a document sharing site of your choice and linked to the forum. I need to be able to access it though so make sure nothing is private!
Make sure you also include your typical name, appearance, background, and other roleplay details as well in your post with your character sheet link, even if that stuff is in the character sheet. Your character sheet is for me, the details are for your fellow players! They will want to know what your character looks like so that in their posts they can describe you or name you in their posts if they are referring to you in it!
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